The rejection of nearly 2,000 medical marijuana applications due to a new health department policy has generated anger among patients and doctors no longer allowed to write recommendations. Now, a rep of the advocacy group Sensible Colorado, which took part in a successful court challenge against the department last year,…
Why did Proposition 19, the CA pot legalization measure, fail? One reason might have been Obama administration antagonism exemplified by the memo “Marijuana legalization: A bad idea.” As Colorado begins the march to a 2012 legalization measure, let’s see if Obama’s “pot cheat sheet” holds up to scrutiny…
Over the past week or so, medical marijuana patients across the state have learned that doctor recommendations for the card allowing them to use MMJ have been rejected. Why? A new health department policy that slid into place almost unnoticed — one that’s likely to disenfranchise and anger nearly 2,000…
The campaign to legalize marijuana for personal use in Colorado — Legalize 2012 — officially kicked off last night in Boulder with Paul Danish, a former Boulder City Councilman and County Commissioner, as the keynote speaker. Danish touched on the failed Prop. 19 — California’s own ballot initiative to legalize…
This dispensary has closed. I hadn’t heard of Cherry Co. until recently, when someone sent me a picture of their OG Kush x Super Silver Haze (called Kizzle) via Facebook. Apparently the shop, which opened in June, hasn’t done much advertising. They don’t even have a website up yet…
With so many municipalities passing medical marijuana dispensary bans this week, more businesses may find themselves in the shoes of folks at Jefferson County’s Footprints Health & Wellness, who began challenging a shutdown order earlier this year. They hope a judge will allow them to reopen after months of being…
Earlier today, info from Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente suggested that a medical marijuana dispensary ban in El Paso County was ahead by a handful of votes. Now, it appears to be losing by a narrow margin — but Vote No on 1A spokesman Mike Elliott doesn’t expect final results anytime…
Update: The Sensible Colorado staff has been hard at work trying to determine if any of the community or county attempts to ban medical marijuana dispensaries were unsuccessful — and they’ve found seven bright spots amid the disappointments in places like Aurora and Douglas County. See the latest list below…
Update: Reached a short time ago, SAFER’s Mason Tvert is philosophical about the defeat of marijuana legalization measure Proposition 19 in California. He sees a number of flaws in the approach of organizers there that may have contributed to it falling short — errors he feels his organization is uniquely…
One of the main arguments for the marijuana-legalization measure that Californians will vote on today is the tax revenue that legal pot would bring to struggling communities — ones like Colorado Springs, which may launch a police squad funded by a new pot of pot money…
It’s not often that a gubernatorial hopeful encourages voters to support someone else. But marijuana activist and write-in candidate Miguel Lopez touts independent Paul Fiorino as the pick of choice for those who support weed legalization — or relegalization, as he calls it — at the polls today as part…
Support for Proposition 19, a California measure to legalize marijuana for adult use, is falling according to a recent poll. But backers of a similar law in Colorado aren’t waiting to find out if Prop. 19 passes. They’ve created a website, Legalize2012.com, and will be formally launching their campaign at…
This dispensary has closed. Stone Mountain Wellness first caught my eye months ago when it took home prizes for top buds at a Boulder cannabis cup. Since that time, the shop has come under new ownership as a member of the Canna Club dispensaries. Among other things, this means the…
Earlier this month, attorneys filed a lawsuit against a medical marijuana business ban on the El Paso County ballot — but yesterday, 4th Judicial District Judge Timothy Simmons refused to grant a preliminary injunction preventing the vote from being counted. Not that Bob Hoban, the lawyer heading up the suit,…
Update: A judge has rejected a lawsuit over a medical marijuana business ban in El Paso County. Read about the development in this post: “Medical marijuana dispensary ban: El Paso vote to count, but could passage cost county millions?” Then look below to learn more about the fight against County…
While a move to follow California’s lead and put the legalization of marijuana on next week’s state-wide ballot didn’t come to pass, many Colorado voters will still asked to vote about pot issues on November 2. That’s because many cities, towns and counties put measures dealing with medical marijuana centers…
As we reported last month, the Mile High Marketplace, aka Mile High Flea Market, isn’t high enough for medical marijuana, since the operation kicked out Cannabis University Dean Michelle LaMay when she ran a booth there. Now LaMay, aka “Grandma Ganj,” is back. Yesterday, she protested outside the flea market…
According to attorney Rob Corry, voters have tried to make Denver “the most marijuana-friendly city on Earth,” supporting a 2000 amendment to use cannabis medically, 2004 and 2006 measures to legalize it for adult use, and a 2008 edict to make enforcing pot regs the lowest law-enforcement priority. That’s why…
Tonight’s the final reading of Denver City Councilwoman Jeanne Robb’s measure to impose medical marijuana grow restrictions in residential areas. At this point, she says they’re likely to omit all mention of caretakers and restrict patients to six plants apiece or twelve plants at a single location…
What’s a poor dispensary owner to do to stand out in an oversaturated market featuring dispensaries on every street corner? One solution would be to hire Grow Room Communications, a new Denver-based company that purports to be the country’s first and only medical marijuana business development and public relations firm…
HB 1284, the medical marijuana regulatory bill signed in June, is a complicated measure that changes many of the ways MMJ caregivers have operated. But attorney Adam Mayo thinks he may have found a work-around: patient collectives. He’ll discuss the topic at length during a Monday Cannabis Therapy Institute seminar…
Update: Westword has obtained the plea agreement signed by Chris Bartkowicz, the Highlands Ranch home grower brought up on federal drug charges even though he said he was growing marijuana for medical purposes. The document, on view below in its entirety, shows that he was confident from the beginning he’d…
