Last week, medical marijuana advocate Kathleen Chippi, who’s collecting funds for a lawsuit to stop HB 1284, Colorado’s main MMJ regulatory measure, criticized attorneys who’d announced their intention to sue over the bill last year but haven’t done so. Why not? Lauren Davis, a lawyer in the group, offers a…
Update: Last week, Colorado Coalition for Patients and Caregivers’ Robert Chase sent an open letter to mayoral candidates Chris Romer and Michael Hancock, asking them to answer three key questions about marijuana policy in the city; see it below. At this writing, neither camp has responded to the request. So…
Last October, attorney Rob Corry wrote to John Hickenlooper to ask the then-Denver mayor to stop prosecuting Lacy Lee, a woman busted for smoking pot at a pro-cannabis rally; the case was later dropped. Now, Corry’s written to Hick again, this time to offer expert analysis on HB 1043, a…
Last week, a group led by Mason Tvert and Brian Vicente filed eight initiatives to legalize marijuana in 2012 in what Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho saw as a unilateral move that short-circuited input from grassroots locals. Rather than further fueling this spat, Vicente has extended an olive branch…
In a striking example of medical marijuana’s growing legitimacy, the Denver-based Namaste Hospice will begin offering free medical marijuana to patients with terminal illnesses. While end-of-life care might not seem like the most cutting-edge of industries, Namaste, which has been providing Denver-area hospice services since 1998, seems to be downright…
The filing of eight 2012 marijuana legalization initiatives by a group led by Brian Vicente and Mason Tvert has come in for criticism from Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho, who accuses organizers of ignoring local activists. But Tvert says nothing could be further from the truth…
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has released the latest data about medical marijuana patients in the state, and the numbers are fascinating. As of March 31, the most recent date available, 137,556 people have applied to the patient registry, and 123,890 — most of them male –…
Not every marijuana activist was thrilled by news that Brian Vicente has filed eight pot-legalization initiatives with the state. Indeed, Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho, one of the main figures behind the separate Legalization2012.com group, is unhappy with what she sees as “a strange, unilateral move.”…
Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente has been talking about a 2012 ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for adult use here since at least this November 2009 post. But his effort to accomplish this feat is one step closer to reality now that he’s submitted eight variations on a legalization measure to…
Mile High Kush Expo, held this past weekend at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, was summed up for me in the ticket line before I went in. “You’re charging people $20 to basically go to a big head shop,” the dreadlocked dude in front of me told the ticket…
The national medical marijuana industry will reach $8.9 billion by 2016. “Operators who are now working in this industry are not wrong, they are early,” says Ben Holmes, owner of the Lafayette-based Centennial Seed Company and former Wall Street maven…
Green Meadows Wellness, William Breathes’s latest medical marijuana dispensary review subject, is one of many entries in our MMJ listings, freshly updated to correspond with the latest edition of The Chronic-le. Look for it around town — but first, click to access our medical-marijuana dispensary directory…
This dispensary has closed. Green Meadows Wellness’ Steve Meadows is a gray-haired, gruff-voiced man of few words — beyond the subject of Otis, the Italian mastiff shop dog…
Kathleen Chippi is among the area’s most active medical marijuana activists; see a video of her below going after both current Denver mayoral candidate Chris Romer and Colorado Attorney General John Suthers. Her latest mission: to raise funds for a lawsuit to stop official implementation of HB 1284, Colorado’s main…
On Monday, we previewed HDNet World Report’s driving test of medical marijuana patients. The full report aired last night; watch it below. But while it’s a respectable piece of work, the final results, which tilt toward the argument that MMJ patients shouldn’t drive after medicating, raise more questions than they…
In March, the Department of Revenue’s Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division published its final rules. Now, one important requirement is about to be made flesh. Beginning tomorrow, employees can begin applying for licenses to work at MMJ centers and other businesses (see the forms below). And while some advocates see the…
Smart phones can already do all sorts of clever things, like tell you where the nearest medical marijuana center is located. But can they help you tell a sample of Green Crack from G-13 Haze? If Strain Brain makes good on its word, they will soon be able to –…
Update below: HB 1261, a bill to set THC driving standards, was put on hold by the Senate judiciary committee last month only to be revived and fast-tracked late in the legislative session. But it died in a Senate vote due in part to the enormous variations in the way…
On Wednesday, Dr. Toribio Robert Mestas was cleared on four counts stemming from an undercover operation in March 2010 by the South Metro Drug Task Force. Arapahoe County District Court Judge Kurt A. Horton dismissed Mestas on charges of writing fraudulent medical marijuana recommendations…
Volume Public Relations, parent company of Grow Room Communications, which describes itself as the country’s first medical marijuana business development and public relations firm, has filed a lawsuit against medical marijuana vocational school Greenway University. A trial is set for March 5, 2012: That could be some bad press!…
My health issues come and go in waves. Some weeks I’ll be fine, others I’ll spend my days nauseated and my nights waking up every few hours with a stabbing pain in my stomach. This past week has fallen into the latter category, so the last thing I wanted to…
I’ll be a guest on the Caplis and Silverman program at 3:30 today on KHOW 630 AM. The two lawyers-turned-radio hosts will be discussing the THC/DUI bill that failed to muster Senate approval this week…
