Today’s Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule is a short tale giving us a glimpse into the mind of a 1930s Colorado criminal named Anderson. This time around, the news brief comes from the Douglas County Record-Journal, based out of Castle Rock. It’s dated February 9, 1934. The piece’s brevity leaves us…
In May, Governor John Hickenlooper signed several marijuana bills he said were “charting new territory” — so new that emergency rules have been issued as placeholders until permanent regulations can be written and approved. But one of the people expected to be central to this process — Laura Harris, head…
Some of my most vivid summer memories involve going to the local plant nursery with my pops when I was a kid. But while recollections of hauling mulch or soil back to the family station wagon still linger, what stands out most to me is the olfactory reaction to the…
You walk up to a bland-looking Wheel of Fortune type wheel, where a large gentleman asks if you would like to spin for a prize. So you do, and you end up winning a voucher for a $25 gram of hash — at which point you’re asked, “Would you like…
Dear Stoner: The pot is the same whether it’s medical or recreational, right? So why aren’t any of the stores open to the public yet? Iggy Nint Dear Iggy: Keep your organic-hemp shorts on. There’s a roughly six-month process here, with deadlines dictated by Amendment 64 itself. While you’re right…
So you say 4/20 is your weed holiday? Pshaw. That’s so old-school. Get with the times. Or, more specifically the time: 7:10 to be exact. Flip it upside down and you’ve got OIL, as in hash oil, BHO, wax, shatter, errl or whatever you want to call it. And today,…
Even though medical marijuana businesses are legal at the state level, they still are illegal under federal law. And while this raises the spectre of federal law enforcement coming down on Colorado businesses, the bigger concern revolves around banking. Since banks are monitored federally, they do not like to do…
According to Amendment 64, local municipalities that allow recreational cannabis businesses will need to have their rules and licensing processes in line by October 1 — which is less than three months away. That means towns and counties across the state that haven’t already banned recreational marijuana are starting to…
Colorado’s medical marijuana industry has not only brought a lot of money into the state, it’s also created legitimate jobs — including the position of marijuana trimmer, a job outlined in a story by Wax Jones. Yes, the work can be smelly — even boring, no matter how much you…
When you first walk in to Megatron, the nickname for Pink House’s grow facility, the beautiful scent of sativas and indicas can be a bit overwhelming. There are hundreds of small plants perched beneath flourescent lights throughout the hallways and thousands of plants spread out between four different rooms. Every…
Fort Collins has gone back and forth on medical marijuana since the Colorado Legislature created the laws regulating the industry three years ago. First the city said yes to dispensaries, then it said no, and most recently Fort Collins residents said yes again when Initiative 301 passed last November with…
How much pot is going to be sold next year in Colorado as a result of Amendment 64 is one of the great unknowns giving officials a headache as they try to predict tax revenues — and costs associated with legalizing the once-forbidden plant are another. The City of Denver’s…
A report released by Colorado Attorney General John Suthers about problems at the state’s toxicology lab led to the decision to suspend blood tests for alcohol and drugs beginning today until the issues can be addressed. During the interim, private labs will conduct such tests. But one prominent lawyer –…
Unless you work for Xcel or one of the handful of other industrial businesses along the railroad tracks in the area, you probably haven’t ever set foot in the corner of Denver that L’Eagle Services calls home — though you’ve driven past it thousands of times on I-25. The shop’s…
Dear Stoner: I’m tired of going to concerts and having to stash pot in my underwear or shoes. How do you get herb into concerts? Do we even need to worry about that now in Colorado or Washington? Doobie Brother Dear DB: It’s called sleight of hand. Magicians use it…
Police in states bordering Colorado have been on the lookout for drivers with Colorado plates, making traffic stops for minor infractions in hopes of busting illegal marijuana shipments coming from the Centennial State. And they’ve been successful, too, with arrests reports from assorted states frequently making their way back to…
Tomorrow, on the Fourth of July, that most patriotic of holidays, a flag made of hemp will fly over the Capitol in Washington. And guess who America has to thank for the cannabis-derived stars and stripes? That’s right — Colorado. The flag was made from hemp fiber purchased in Manitou…
Yesterday, we shared new retail marijuana emergency rules issued by the Department of Revenue and the Marijuana Enforcement Division, along with medical marijuana critic William Breathes’s first takes. Breathes noted that a number of matters haven’t been specifically addressed thus far. An example is signage regulation of the sort Amendment…
Today, the Colorado Department of Revenue and the Marijuana Enforcement Division jointly released emergency rules for the marijuana industry. The agencies stress that these mandates are temporary, meant only as placeholders until permanent rules are adopted. Our William Breathes went over the edicts and jotted down his first impressions about…
Update: Last week, we reported about Ethan Ruby’s plans to open a medical marijuana grow called Theraplant in Connecticut, and his claimed involvement in a Colorado MMJ operation; see our previous coverage below. After the piece’s publication, Ruby responded to our interview requests. He says he was misquoted by other…
This week’s Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule is a news brief from the Telluride Daily Journal from 1904 that’s yet another example of the papers of the era slandering not only cannabis, but Mexicans as well. It’s actually similar to another story from 1904 we recently shared with you, about two…
BotanaCare doesn’t seem like a dispensary. And not in the “Oh, neat, look how they made it seem like something other than a place to buy medical marijuana” kind of way. No, it’s more like, “Oh, damn, I must have walked in the wrong door.” Imagine the boss of an…
