Senator Chris Romer played an enormous role in Colorado’s groundbreaking medical marijuana legislation. With the August 1 deadline for dispensary owners for file applications just days away, he feels pride in what the laws have already accomplished even as he’s attempting to clear up confusion about controversial residency rules…
In early May, even before Governor Bill Ritter signed HB 1284, a bill to regulate the medical marijuana industry, attorney Jessica Corry announced that lawsuits would target the measure — and the next month, she said a couple of MMJ suits were in the works. Six weeks later, is litigation…
For its new Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment selected Ken Weaver, subject of this week’s “Blowing Smoke.” It’s the latest item on a résumé that includes going to prison for stealing a plane and making up a fake life — but CDPHE apparently…
Last week, William Breathes gave us a behind-the-scenes look at his CNN interview with Poppy Harlow about being one of the nation’s first medical marijuana critics. The story began airing this morning, and it’s epic — often funnier than Breathes’s appearance on The Daily Show, yet also a straight-forward look…
Dispensary owners are scrambling as another tight deadline approaches: Applications for “medical marijuana centers,” optional grow facilities and marijuana-infused product manufacturers — along with fees from $1,250 to $18,000 — need to be submitted to the state’s new Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division by August 1. Which, adding to the confusion,…
Why has dispensary owner Wanda James so actively promoted medical marijuana use for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder? One reason: She and husband/partner Scott Durrah both served in the military. So she’s thrilled that the Veterans Administration is loosening rules concerning vets with PTSD and MMJ. But she sees this…
A fresh development in the bizarre case of Kurt Riggin, a self-proclaimed tribal chief and attorney accused of the improper practice of law plus a string of charges related to his defense of a medical marijuana patient in Park County. A judge has recommended that Riggin’s claim of sovereignty based…
Ron Hyman, the state’s registrar of vital statistics, knows that the deluge of medical marijuana registry applications his office receives daily has to stop eventually. After all, he jokes, Colorado only has five million residents. But given the latest numbers, this humorous line has a certain ring of truth…
The medical marijuana laws in Colorado are akin to a full employment plan for attorneys. Take this week’s appeal of a case involving Frank Marzano, who was convicted in 2007 of cultivation and possession of marijuana after a search for a fugitive turned up weed — and despite the fact…
The small but mighty City Park Dispensary, critiqued by William Breathes, is the latest of our CNN-approved MMJ center reviews. And we’ve got more resources for you to command. Click to check out 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 clinics, whether they resemble swanky bars, sterile dentist’s offices or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our dispensary list here, and keep reading for William…
CNN’s Poppy Harlow’s interviews with countless influential business leaders — from GM CEO Frtiz Henderson, to billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban — are a popular feature on the cable news giant. So, I wonder where my interview yesterday with her will rank?…
Miguel Lopez is a write-in candidate for governor, as well as an advocate for what he calls “marijuana re-legalization.” He sees 2012 as the year when this issue is likely to reach the ballot box, but he doesn’t want activists to wait around until then. That’s the message of “2010…
Everyone has questions about the new medical marijuana laws. And one of the best people to answer them is Jill Lamoureux-Leigh, one of the most successful and respected people in the MMJ community…
Mason Tvert, the main man behind SAFER, lives to promote the theory that marijuana is less dangerous than alcohol — and if he can hype his book Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink? at the same time, that’s even better. These goals come together in…
When Senator Chris Romer first proposed a medical marijuana regulation bill, he said legislation might close half the state’s dispensaries, and Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente thinks 40 percent of MMJ businesses may falter in the wake of HB 1284’s signing. MMJ Menu’s Ryan Bregenzer believes it. He’s gotten to the…
Earlier this week, the city council in Broomfield, where a moratorium on medical marijuana businesses is about to expire, voted a ban forward by a 5-4 margin. If it passes on a second reading, July 27, it becomes law. Why not put such a measure on the November ballot? Broomfield…
The time has finally come. My battered, torn and frayed red card expired on the 13th, forcing me to join the club of thousands of doctors-recommendation-carrying medical patients waiting for a card…
Just published: Our latest Mile Highs and Lows dispensary review, in which William Breathes makes a return visit to Mile High Medical (after walking out the first time). And that’s not all, folks. To peruse our newly updated dispensary directory, click here…
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 clinics, whether they resemble swanky bars, sterile dentist’s offices or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our dispensary list here, and keep reading for William…
On July 2, Altitude Organic Medicine shut down after a city council zoning measure doomed it — an outcome council member Carla Madison said was regrettable but unavoidable. Before he closed up shop, AOM co-owner Brian Cook implied that another nearby dispensary, LoHi Cannabis Club, had used political connections against…
Aurora police chief Dan Oates defends a sting operation that led to the arrest of a doctor accused of writing medical marijuana recommendations without examinations. But Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente, who’s criticized law enforcement’s approach to medical marijuana in the past, questions the department’s actions, which he sees in the…
