Marijuana, even of the medical variety, remains illegal at the federal level — meaning that dispensary owners can’t take business deductions on tax returns they submit to the feds. But since MMJ is legal in Colorado, shouldn’t they be able to deduct legitimate business expenses on state forms? Mitch Woolhiser,…
On Thursday, we updated you on the trial of Bob Crouse, a medical marijuana patient with cancer who faced cultivation and distribution charges for going beyond the state’s plant limit despite having a doctor recommendation to exceed it. At that time, activist Audrey Hatfield felt things were going Crouse’s way…
Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? The Incredibowl i420…
This dispensary has closed. Re-reviewing Denver Patients Group is purely a function of its location. That is, I drove past the air-conditioned shop right as the Easy Bake oven that is my AC-less car had started to give me borderline heat stroke. Some people go to shopping malls or movies…
In April, the proponents of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, made a big splash by erecting a billboard near Mile High Stadium featuring a soccer-mom-esque woman saying, “For many reasons, I prefer marijuana over alcohol. Does that make me a bad person?” Today, the campaign has unveiled…
One of the stranger marijuana stories of last year involved a federal raid on Cherry Top Farms dispensary — one not prompted by an investigation into the center, but due to the targeting of Nathan Do, a man associated with a different MMC, who agents were following. Nathan, along with…
Last July, we told you about the prosecution of medical marijuana patient Bob Crouse, a longtime Colorado Springs restaurateur who faced cultivation and distribution charges for going beyond the state’s plant limit despite having a doctor recommendation to exceed it due to his treatment regimen for leukemia. His trial is…
Last November, Fort Collins voters elected to shut down all medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits, with the MMCs closing by midnight on Valentine’s Day. Now, a group of pro-dispensary supporters is hoping voters will bring the industry back to the northern Colorado town…
While some of us were at home lighting up last night, firefighters across the state were working to extinguish some of the most frightening blazes in the state’s history. To help support firefighters on the front lines near Fort Collins, Colorado Springs and Boulder, several medical marijuana businesses have come…
In April, we told you about the story of Brandon Coats, a paralyzed medical marijuana patient fired from DISH Network for failing a positive drug test. Coats’s complaint lost in the first round, but it’s under appeal — and with the filing of a new brief, the case is entering…
Last month, attorney Rob Corry estimated that prosecutors had wasted $100,000 in its failed pot prosecution of Josh Jones — a case he felt should have never been taken to trial. He sees similar prosecutorial wrongheadedness in the case of another client, Colorado Springs’ Elisa Kappelmann, a licensed marijuana grower…
I’ve been shopping at High Level Health for some time now, though not really as a regular place — mostly just to rush in and grab an eighth to grind down into joint food when I was running low. I last visited in the fall of 2011, before the shop…
Last week, we told you about 2011 documents uncovered by activist Corey Donahue that outlined using the proposed medical marijuana patient registry database to cross-check federal firearm databases. The reason: MMJ patients are not legally allowed to own guns. Now, however, a state official says such a search won’t happen…
No matter where you stand on marijuana legalization, you’re likely to find an exchange yesterday between Representative Jared Polis and Drug Enforcement Administrator Michele Leonhart to be flabbergasting. Throughout the conversation (at a Judiciary subcommittee hearing), Leonhart refuses to say that pot is a lesser health problem than crack, or…
Two competing medical marijuana advertising bans have been proposed by Denver City Council members, and their concepts are very different in scope. The council’s Debbie Ortega and Christopher Herndon have until August to find a compromise before their colleagues take a vote…
Yesterday, we told you about a study showing no link between medical marijuana legalization and teen pot use. The co-author of that study, University of Colorado Denver professor Daniel Rees, sees the findings as directly contradicting attempts to link MMJ and marijuana usage among young people that are favorite talking…
A just-released study associated with the University of Colorado Denver finds no link between teen marijuana use and the legalization of medical marijuana; read the report below. Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente sees these results as more evidence that regulating pot actually causes a decrease in teen use…
It’s not really a consolation, but at least Colorado medical marijuana patients won’t be treated like sex offenders in the proposed computer link between the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and law enforcement crime databases…
Earlier this week, Denver City Councilwoman Jeanne Faatz expressed philosophical support for a medical marijuana outdoor ad ban that would go beyond one targeting the areas near where kids congregate. Councilman Christopher Herndon confirms that he’ll offer just such a proposal and tells us why he thinks it’s needed…
This dispensary has closed. Whereas the original Native Roots occupies almost a quarter-floor of a high rise in Denver, its Lakewood location is sandwiched between other stores in a small strip center next to a McDonald’s on Wadsworth. Fitting, as Native Roots is one of a handful of dispensaries not…
Update by William Breathes: It is starting to look like there never was an opportunity for public comment on the proposed digital connection between law enforcement and the Colorado medical marijuana patient registry. State officials are only able to point to vague language in state statute for authorizing this program…
The medical marijuana patient registry saw an increase in patients for five straight months through April 2012, bringing the total number of Coloradans with medical marijuana cards to 96,709. According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the registry is still 32,000 names below its all-time high…
