On Monday, the Denver City Council considered a proposal that would limit the number of marijuana plants grown in residential areas to twelve — an idea that MMJ advocates at the Cannabis Therapy Institute see as a de facto caregiver ban. Councilwoman Jeanne Robb, who’s behind the plan, denies that…
HB 1284, the medical marijuana regulation law signed by Governor Bill Ritter, includes the right for municipalities to ban dispensaries, and numerous cities, including Aurora and Broomfield, are taking advantage of it. But while MMJ attorneys have talked about issuing lawsuits to challenge this and other HB 1284 provisions, none…
On April 1, the U.S. patent office announced a new trademark: “Processed plant matter for medicinal purposes, namely medical marijuana.” The category was killed three months later when the Wall Street Journal asked about it, but in the meantime ganjapreneurs nationwide filed some very interesting pot trademarks — with some…
Back in July, attorney Rob Corry told us about a case involving Frank Marzano, a medical marijuana grower who was convicted in 2007 after his crop was discovered during an unrelated search for a wanted fugitive. Today, Corry reveals that the criminal charges have been dismissed. Find out why below:…
Among the items on the agenda for tonight’s Denver City Council meeting is CB 10-0607, which is described as “a bill for an ordinance relating to the Denver Zoning Code, restricting growing of medical marijuana in residential districts and uses.” Sounds benign enough — but could it result in a…
Last week, we told you about a medical marijuana art revolt by ReeferReport.com’s Angela Macdonald, an MMJ patient whose small town, Haxtun, has banned cannabis businesses. The event took place this weekend, and the quotes (one of them by George Washington) Macdonald and helpers painted on a former jail she…
Submitted for your consideration: The Wildflower Seed’s latest dispensary view, which focuses on Golden Alternative Care. But whether you’re on the west side or the east, north or south, there are more choices to consider. Check them out in our newly updated medical marijuana dispensary directory…
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, sterile dentist’s offices or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our current dispensary list here, and keep reading to…
Those who support the ability of communities to ban medical marijuana businesses typically say the rights of MMJ patients in those towns are still protected, since they can sign up with licensed caregivers. But that’s not the way it’s worked out for Angela Macdonald, a resident of Haxtun, a small…
This week’s marijuana-cultivation arrest of Broomfield’s Johnny Jones wasn’t an isolated incident. According to Commander Jerry Peters of the North Metro Task Force, which assisted on the Jones bust, illegal marijuana seizures are up 380 percent from 2009 — and he believes surplus medical marijuana is helping to fuel a…
Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho and Colorado Coalition for Patients and Caregivers’ Robert Chase succeeded in getting the Department of Revenue to postpone the first meeting of its new medical marijuana advisory working group because it wasn’t open to the public. But they don’t want to stop there. The activists…
Update below: It only took a day for the Department of Revenue to blink. The DOR had planned for this morning’s first meeting of its new medical marijuana advisory working group to be closed to the public. But thanks to complaints from two notable MMJ advocates, Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura…
Do medical marijuana dispensaries have double-secret, underground agreements with the dorms at the University of Colorado in Boulder? Is there a secret plot to get all the innocent, cherub-faced freshmen at the nation’s sixth-best reefer hot spot school hooked on the ganja? Thanks to one paranoid mother who called to…
Last week, the Colorado Department of Health found itself in hot water after Westwordreported that one of the members of its new Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee, Ken Weaver, was a Texas ex-con with a secret life. Now the Department of Revenue has announced its advisory group, and while Weaver isn’t…
Every Colorado dispensary and associated business had to apply for a state license by August 1 — which means we finally have a total number of Colorado pot shops willing to navigate the state’s new rules and fees. The tally: 717 dispensaries, 271 marijuana-infused product manufacturers and 1,071 grow facilities…
At this writing, an emergency hearing of the new Department of Revenue Medical Marijuana Licensing Authority is underway. And like MMJ activist Laura Kriho, attorney Jessica Corry feels the residency rules that will be up for discussion are extremely problematic — a position spelled out in a document on view…
The first rule-making hearing of the Department of Revenue’s Medical Marijuana Licensing Authority, slated for 10 a.m. this morning, has been deemed an emergency. But why it should be categorized as one puzzles the Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho, who notes that this terminology has previously been used in an…
Earlier today, we shared the thoughts of attorney Danyel Joffe about the medical marijuana business license application. Joffe has problems with the application, which must be filed by Sunday — but dispensary owner Kathleen Chippi goes much further. She’s refusing to file the form, which she regards as “un-American, unconstitutional…
Sunday is the deadline for medical marijuana businesses to submit their business application to the state — and while Senator Chris Romer likes what the new MMJ laws signed by Governor Bill Ritter have done thus far, attorney Danyel Joffe — who spoke to us about a previous July 1…
The most notable part of the first meeting of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s new Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee, held this morning, wasn’t what occurred, but what was missing: Staffers announced that Ken Weaver, the committee’s designated patient advocate, had stepped down. Yesterday, Westword reported on Weaver’s…
CNN-approved pot critic William Breathes gets back to “work” with his latest review, of Native Roots Apothecary. But for those of you who’d rather not seek out MMJ on the 16th Street Mall, fear not. You’ll find lots of other options by clicking on this link to our newly updated…
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, sterile dentist’s offices or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our current dispensary list here, and keep reading for William Breathes’s review of…
