As we’ve reported, city officials expect organizers of this weekend’s 4/20 event at Denver’s Civic Center Park to actively discourage public pot smoking — an activity that’s illegal under Colorado law. However, liquor will be sold and can be consumed at the McNichols Building on the Civic Center complex during…
We’re accustomed to seeing Denver top marijuana-centric city lists. So we were definitely surprised to come across Elite Daily’s “10 Best U.S. Cites For Stoners To Live In” and discover that while Denver was among the two Colorado communities to make the cut, and despite upcoming 4/20 activities drawing tourists…
We’re pretty sure that this story in the Silverton Standard from January of 1890 was meant to scare people. But as is the case with a lot of these old pieces, they actually do a great job of selling us on the amazing effects of cannabis. Even if they aren’t…
Colorado’s marijuana laws allow communities to decide whether or not to allow recreational sales. Votes on the topic have taken place in more than a dozen municipalities over the past couple of weeks, with a hefty percentage turning thumbs-down. These results don’t frustrate one prominent marijuana advocate charged with following…
One of the first dudes I ever got stoned with in high school was a super metal-head named Eric who was into Dungeons and Dragons, wizards, warlocks and Tolkein novels. His room at his mom’s house, where we would smoke after school, was a tribute to all of these things,…
This is the 100th day since recreational marijuana sales became legal in Colorado, and to mark the occasion, Michael Elliott of the Marijuana Industry Group has put together eight reasons it’s working, supported by coverage from national and local media outlets. Yes, the items are cherry-picked, and legalization opponents could…
Dear Stoner: I’ve always wanted a hemp houseplant. What are the rules and regulations for growing hemp on a small, non-commercial scale? And does that count as one of the six plants that I’m allowed to grow? I realize that if I’m already growing marijuana, I’d need a male hemp…
Have you checked your calendar lately? The annual 4/20 weekend is nearly upon us, and we can already smell the smoke in the air in the Mile High City. Okay, maybe that’s just the smoke from our pot critic’s desk. But that smoke signals an ever-growing list of cannabis-centric events…
Update: Earlier this morning, we shared an interview with Conley Hoskins, an indicted medical marijuana entrepreneur who decried the shuttering of two dispensaries by a state agency; see our previous coverage below. In the conversation, Hoskins mentions that about fifty employees went unpaid due to the shutdown — and now…
As we noted in an article yesterday asking whether Alabama cops think all Colorado drivers look like drug smugglers, we’ve been hearing from lots of folks on the subject of pot profiling. Of course, officers are supposed to have probable cause to justify a traffic stop and a search for…
In last week’s marijuana legislative roundup, our William Breathes referenced two bills about drug endangered children that he said “could arguably make all cannabis-using parents criminals.” He’s not alone in this belief. But Senator Linda Newell, a Littleton Democrat, insists that nothing could be further from the truth. And on…
After our latest post about marijuana profiling, we were contacted by plenty of folks who say law enforcers in other states conducted traffic stops and searches that appear to have been based solely on their Colorado license plates. Among the most memorable tales comes from 65-year-old Sandra Lenga, who was…
We’ve got a followup to a post last November that spotlighted a 1922 Telluride Daily Journal blurb on Martinez Gonzales, who was arrested after Montrose cops found him growing herb in his front yard. Last we had heard, Gonzales was being held in jail until an evaluation on his sanity…
Denver mayor Michael Hancock isn’t the likeliest marijuana tourist. Recall that he ripped Amendment 64. Nonetheless, he and other Denver city officials will visit Amsterdam next week in part to learn more about the city’s approach to weed. Apparently, Hancock and company haven’t heard of this little thing called the…
So much has changed at Southwest Alternative Care since 2011 that it might as well be a new dispensary. The shop has moved from its strange loft above a mattress store to a stand-alone warehouse spot just a few miles east and expanded to a second location on Colfax. Plus,…
Thirteen producers have registered to legally grow hemp in Colorado in the month since registration began, according to the state Department of Agriculture. However, those thirteen producers hold a total of twenty registrations, as several of them are registered to grow in more than one location or for more than…
Dear Stoner: Where can I buy quality seeds in Denver?John A. Dear John: Recreational sales for seeds are slim pickings these days, but you can pick up beans from Reserva Privada Colorado at the Clinic, as well as Rare Dankness seeds at River Rock and Medicine Man. Those two companies…
State lawmakers are working on six bills related to marijuana during this legislative session, not including the proposed budgets for the marijuana regulation divisions of the Department of Revenue and the Department of Public Health, which also have to be approved by the general assembly. Among them are two that…
In a highly unusual move, the Denver coroner’s office has listed marijuana intoxication as a contributing factor in a death — the fatal fall of college student Levy Thamba from a hotel balcony last month. Thamba consumed a marijuana edible before he died. A coroner’s office spokeswoman says the facts…
For more than a year, we’ve shared stories about alleged pot profiling of cars with Colorado license plates. Examples include a Westword writer stopped twice during one cross-country trip and a man who said he’d been improperly blamed for toking by managers at a Kansas hotel. Now, Darian Roseen, seventy,…
During the debate over regulating medical marijuana dispensaries, opponents frequently suggested that the presence of such shops would cause crime to rise. Numerous studies have debunked these predictions and a new University of Texas Dallas inquiry does, too — but with a twist. Researchers note that crime rates related to…
In the early 1950s, a U.S. senator from Tennessee named Estes Kefauver wanted to make a name for himself. The guy had high aspirations, after all, and fancied himself presidential material. And what better way to do that than to scare the living crap out of the American public with…
