Dear Stoner: I enjoy smoking herb at concerts, but I’m a germophobe and hate sharing bowls with strangers nearby who ask for a hit. Is it totally un-stoner to puff and not pass? Rolling Stoned Dear RS: While classic stoner etiquette would tell you otherwise, I think it’s totally fine…
Despite nearly 10,000 new-patient applications in the first quarter of 2013, the number of active medical marijuana patients in Colorado hasn’t changed much since January 1. Between December 31 and the end of March, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the MMJ registry received 9,557 new…
Earlier today, Governor John Hickenlooper made his mark on six marijuana bills, pushing retail sale of recreational pot closer to becoming a reality and putting at least a temporary end to quandaries that occupied the legislature throughout much of the just-concluded session. “Clearly, we are charting new territory,” Hickenlooper said…
Pot edibles are a burgeoning business in Colorado, and with the signing of marijuana-related legislation later this morning, that growth is expected to continue. But according to a Colorado-centric study just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics, something else is rising, too — the number of…
This week we’re traveling back to July of 1893, just as cannabis started to become demonized in the media. This article from the Colorado Transcript in Golden, is based on a British report on hash regulations in Egypt, Greece and Turkey. The story talks about the “general ignorance which prevails…
It’s been almost three years since I checked out Pure’s original location, on Bannock just south of the Denver Art Museum. Since then, the shop has expanded to two other locations quietly selling cannabis with what seems like little to no media presence. No cannabis cups and no obnoxious Internet…
Dear Stoner: I recently read some quote from Thomas Jefferson about smoking bowls on his patio. Did our Founding Fathers actually smoke the hemp they were growing? History Buff Dear Buff: The quote that is falsely attributed to T.J. — “Some of my finest hours have been spent on my…
Reverend Brandon Baker, leader of Colorado’s Greenfaith Ministries — a cannabis-centric congregation out of Nunn, just east of Fort Collins — thinks that not only is the new pot-driving law unnecessary, but that it also unfairly targets medical and religious users of cannabis. In fact, he sees it as such…
Last November’s passage of Amendment 64 was greeted with joy by many members of the cannabis community. But what followed was a confusing flurry of bills that will be further refined by rules and regulations to be crafted by the Department of Revenue in the months after they’re signed, likely…
Earlier today, we shared the thoughts of Sensible Colorado head Brian Vicente about the federal government’s continued silence on Amendment 64, the marijuana measure he co-authored. But we also asked Vicente’s views about the newly passed but not yet signed marijuana laws spurred by A64, as well as the fear…
Is it legal to grow hemp in Colorado? Like, right now? That’s a complicated question — and one that the Colorado Department of Agriculture is trying to clear up in a statement issued this week: “Amendment 64 did not authorize the immediate cultivation of hemp. It instead directed the General…
It’s been over six months since voters approved Amendment 64, which allows adults 21 and over in Colorado to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, and the Obama administration still hasn’t weighed in on the measure. Last week, we speculated that the delays would continue thanks to current scandals…
After the passage of a driving-under-the-influence-of-drugs bill, we wondered if Westword medical marijuana critic William Breathes would ever be able to drive legally again, since he’d registered nearly triple the proposed limit while sober during a 2011 test. Tonight at 10 p.m., CBS4 dives into the drugged driving debate –…
This week’s Cannabis Time Capsule, which stems from Ouray and goes all the way back to 1910, shows what might be the modern origins of stoner lore that the word “assassin” stems from hashish. According to legend, hash-stoned mercenaries carried out murders for their blood-thirsty ruler in exchange for more…
Marijuana addiction specialist Dr. Christian Thurstone conjured images like the one seen here when, earlier this week, he shared what he sees as evidence of weed users searching for bigger and bigger highs — and added his fear that such people may soon turn to injecting THC, the active ingredient…
Green Cross of Cherry Creek is in an old three-story office building; Green Cross is on the second floor, along with a nail salon that I’m sure at least a few stoners have absentmindedly walked into before getting a whiff of acrylic nail polish instead of skunk. I say that…
Dear Stoner: With the recent passing of the five-nanogram driving limit for THC, I’m worried that even while sober, as a regular smoker I’ll technically be over the limit. Should I sell my car and resign myself to public transportation? 16L4Life Dear Sixteen: The new five-nanogram law is unscientific bullshit…
During a conference call shortly after the November 2012 passage of Amendment 64, Governor John Hickenlooper and Colorado Attorney General John Suthers encouraged U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to make announcing the federal government’s response to the bill a priority. Then, in March, Holder said the feds’ decision would be…
As a member of the Amendment 64 task force who is deeply troubled by the possible repercussions of legalizing marijuana, as well as a central figure in the national anti-pot organization Project SAM, Dr. Christian Thurstone is controversial in the marijuana community. But he hasn’t backed away from warning about…
Last week, William Breathes updated us on the efforts by residents of Nederland to come up with their own marijuana ordinance, rather than waiting for the state to do so for them. The final version of the ordinance is currently circulating, and among the interesting elements of the text are…
There’s been lotsa debate over just-passed marijuana bills. But lost amid talk about THC driving limits that may prevent MMJ patients like William Breathes from driving legally and a provision that treats pot mags like porn is the impact of marijuana retail on employees and employers. Rulings that support the…
By the 1920s, newspapers were no stranger to salacious stories about the evil scourge of drugs and their corrupting force. (Not much has changed, actually). This particular entry in our Cannabis Time Capsule series isn’t so much a story, but a photo — from the Wet Mountain Tribune out of…
