This week, news that a national survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) showed illegal drug use among Americans twelve and older is climbing, with much of the increase due to marijuana, made headlines nationwide. But Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente says there’s no cause for alarm…
Roughly 75 people attended the Department of Revenue’s Medical Marijuana Advisory committee meeting this morning. Despite fears from the Cannabis Therapy Institute that there wouldn’t be enough space in the board room, everyone who wanted a seat had one. But some people gave theirs up early…
This dispensary has closed. In “Mile Highs and Lows,” Westword offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our updated dispensary list here, and keep reading for William Breathes’s review…
Yesterday, Colorado’s board of health considered and then rejected the prospect of formally adding Tourette Syndrome as a condition that can be treated by medical marijuana in this state. It’s a decision that incenses Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente, who earlier petitioned the health department to allow medical marijuana use for…
The Department of Revenue’s medical marijuana advisory committee has been controversial from the beginning, and not only because meetings weren’t open to the public until after advocates complained. Now there are gripes from the likes of Cannabis Therapy Institute that the meeting space is too small for everyone who wants…
A few weeks ago news outlets across the nation, including Westword, reported on what appeared to be the first-ever pot commercial on regular TV, a spot for a California dispensary on Sacramento station KTXL. But as it turns out, irregular TV around Colorado has been running dispensary ads for some…
Every now and then local companies drop off their medical marijuana-related products at the Westword offices. Enough, actually, that we decided it would be a good idea to kick off a quasi-regular product review to showcase our Colorado Stoner MacGyvers…
Here’s one of the stranger public political spats of the season: El Paso County Commissioner Amy Lathen and Colorado Springs councilman Sean Paige have been going back and forth over marijuana. Seems Lathen publicly said Paige supports weed legalization, which she appears to oppose. Paige responds that he opposes it,…
The February arrest of Highlands Ranch marijuana grower Chris Bartkowicz, as well as his subsequent indictment, has been a rallying point for local medical-marijuana activists — and it will continue to be so for months to come. The judge at a two-day hearing has allowed the case, which could net…
Today, medical marijuana attorney Rob Corry sent a letter to the three best-known gubernatorial candidates — John Hickenlooper, Dan Maes and Tom Tancredo — asking them two weed-related questions: Would they support a law preventing the legislature from using MMJ funds like a piggy bank? And would they back the…
Today is the one-year anniversary of our Mile Highs and Lows dispensary reviews — a date marked by William Breathes’s memories of his first twelve months on the job and a new review of Budding Health, locale of our first critique. You can also celebrate by visiting our newly updated…
It’s been exactly one year since we kicked off our Mile Highs and Lows dispensary reviews. Since he’s a sentimental guy (we think it might be the marijuana), William Breathes gave us the following look back at a year in pot reviewing: Believe it or not, Westword staffers aren’t potheads…
This dispensary has closed. In “Mile Highs and Lows,” Westword offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our updated dispensary list here, and keep reading for William Breathes’s review…
Back in July, food blogger Lee Klein, who writes for Westword’s sister paper, Miami New Times, mentioned me in a funny story about a pot and food pairing he put together on a private yacht. Since marijuana is highly illegal in Florida, Klein had to go out to open waters…
Cannabis Festiva, an event booked for Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City on August 21, was designed for thousands of attendees — but only hundreds showed. Could it be that potential attendees were already at the THC Music Festival that same weekend in Alma? Or perhaps folks were feeling…
This week, discovery of a 3,000-plus plant marijuana grow in Boulder County was followed by the uprooting of a nearby 4,000-plant grow. Did Broomfield authorities take these seizures as a challenge to their reputation for marijuana-grow arrests? Maybe — because today brings yet another one, accompanied by arrests of Joseph…
The Department of Revenue’s 25-member medical marijuana working group stirred controversy due to a plan to hold its first meeting behind closed doors — a situation rectified when MMJ advocates complained. But after the group’s initial sitdown last week, the Cannabis Therapy Institute vowed to fight proposed regs, as well…
Medical marijuana ads are everywhere these days, from Denver billboards to local radio spots. But is Colorado ready for MMJ television commercials? That day could come soon, since what’s reported to be the first-ever marijuana commercial on regular TV is now airing on Sacramento, California station KTXL…
William Breathes’s latest medical marijuana dispensary review brings him to Pure Medical Dispensary, where less is (generally) more. But it’s hardly the only game in town, as you’ll discover when perusing our always fresh online listings. Click to access our newly updated medical-marijuana directory…
In “Mile Highs and Lows,” Westword offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our dispensary list here, and keep reading for William Breathes’s review of Pure Medical Dispensary…
Back in June, commissioner Ben Pearlman told us about the passage of new rules for medical marijuana operations in Boulder County. An application to grow marijuana on the 67-acre Szymanski Farms property would have been rejected under the updated regs. But because the ap was filed before their passage, Pearlman…
An update about yesterday’s Boulder County marijuana grow seizure of 3,000 plants. After a closer count, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office thinks the plant total was closer to 3,500 — and after more inspection of the nearby area, law-enforcement types located a second operation whose crop is currently estimated at…
