Medical marijuana holiday gift guide: High ho-ho-ho!

Forget smartphones and robotic hamsters: The real hot gifts this holiday season are medical marijuana gizmos. There are a bunch of cutting-edge weed products being developed right here in Colorado. Check out a few of our favorites below. Think of it like a holiday gift guide for that special medical-marijuana…

Hash oil home explosion not a surprise to one expert

This weekend, an explosion rocked the home of a licensed medical marijuana grower in Breckenridge, reportedly because roommates of the owner who were injured in the accident were trying to process hashish using butane. If that’s what happened, the people in question were taking a considerable risk, says Timothy Tipton,…

Senator Chris Romer at the marijuana fair: F-bombs mixed with kindness

Senator Chris Romer, who’s authored proposed legislation to regulate medical marijuana in Colorado, is a contentious figure in debate about the issue. He believes many younger people with medical marijuana licenses are exaggerating their illnesses in order to smoke weed legally, and he feels his reform concepts will lead to…

Cannabis Health News Magazine by patients for patients

Yesterday, we told you about several folks featured in a Colorado-centric issue of High Times, who’ll be autographing copies of the mag at the Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Cannabis Holiday Health Fair, slated for Sunday, December 13, at the Holiday Inn, 4849 Bannock Street. But that’s not the only magazine news…

Los Angeles’ medical-weed scene: How not to regulate dispensaries

Colorado politicians are delving head first into the state’s medical-marijuana conundrum, developing statewide regulation bills and counter bills, not to mention hammering out municipal rules city by city. That’s a good thing, since the last thing we want is for any of our communities to turn out like the pot…

Our updated medical-marijuana directory

Today, William Breathes, one of our new medical marijuana reviewers, samples the stock at Pain Management of Colorado, located in Cherry Creek North (with prices to match). But if that doesn’t suit your fancy, you’ll find a plethora of alternatives in our newly updated dispensary directory. The most current list…

Mile Highs and Lows: Pain Management of Colorado

This dispensary has closed. As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred…

Colorado marijuana makes the cover of High Times: Dank goodness!

The Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Cannabis Holiday Health Fair, slated for Sunday, December 13, at the Holiday Inn, 4849 Bannock Street, will feature an unlikely autograph session — one that should guarantee High Times for all. The February issue of the venerable pro-pot magazine features a six-page spread on medical marijuana…

Top Meds: Award-winning medical marijuana strains

Afghani, OG Kush, Purple Skunk, White Widow… With so many strains to choose from at local dispensaries, how do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Thankfully, a variety of medical marijuana contests have popped up around Colorado recently, and they’ve uncovered the best of the best. Check out the…

John Denver, Bernie Madoff & Me rules New York

John Denver once admitted that “Rocky Mountain High” was written under the influence of LSD and marijuana — and now that his anthem is our state song, the Colorado legislature should write their medical marijuana legislation under the influence of John Denver. But drugs aren’t the reason why Denver is…

Our updated medical-marijuana directory

Today’s just-published review of GreenLeaf Farmacy (by one of our two new medical marijuana reviewers, The Wildflower Seed) is only the start of our information about medical marijuana in Colorado. We’re continuing to regularly update our directory of dispensaries, which is growing longer and larger all the time. The most…

Mile Highs and Lows: GreenLeaf Farmacy

This dispensary has closed. As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred…

Incredibowl wins big at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam

Don’t know what to get that special medical marijuana patient in your life this holiday season? You could do worse than the Incredibowl, the high-tech medical marijuana pipe designed by weed-smoking Colorado whiz kids The guys behind the Incredibowl, which was described in a September Westword feature on the medical…

Another dispensary-ban fight gears up in Westminster

As communities around the state struggle with what to do about proliferating marijuana dispensaries, some cities and towns are washing their hands of the whole thing by banning them outright or instituting temporary moratoriums. Now, however, some of the dispensaries threatened by these developments are fighting back. As we reported…

Dude, I got my medical-marijuana ID!

Yesterday I received a very special present in the mail from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment: My medical marijuana registry ID card! Whoopee! Here’s the rub: It took fourteen weeks from the time I applied for the card in August for it to arrive — much longer…