Attorney Lauren Davis is still exasperated by a hearing last night in Castle Rock, which is considering a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries that would disenfranchise two businesses that have already been cleared to operate in the town. Davis says her client, Amber Ostrom, who owns a dispensary called Plants…
We’re as sober as especially sober judges here at Westword — yet, for whatever reason, we’re just getting around to posting a joke Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien told about our search for a medical marijuana reviewer back on November 17. At the end of our quest, we wound up…
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…
The story of the Cheesecake Lady reads like a home-grown Horatio Alger tale — one featuring considerable amounts of ganja. The Cheesecake Lady, aka Jessica LeRoux, has long been legendary in the local pre-concert tailgating scene for strolling through parking lots with her crazy hat and wavy hair and offering…
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…
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…
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…
Earlier this week, we told you about a sophisticated pro-medical marijuana poll conducted by a new organization, Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation. The survey’s professionalism was no fluke. CMMR may be in its nascent stages — it doesn’t even have a website up and running yet, although that should change…
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…
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…
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…
This morning, Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown presented his proposed ordinance to regulate the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries to the council’s Safety Committee. We live blogged the hearing; you’ll find Brown’s proposal at the bottom of this post, with our most recent reports at the top. 11:50 a.m.: Broadwell thinks…
Last month, the Fort Collins city council considered passing an emergency moratorium against new medical marijuana operations — only to decide that this action wasn’t such an emergency after all. A couple of weeks later, however, the council opted for just such a moratorium — until March 26, by which…
Welcome to the big leagues, medical marijuana. And by that, I mean the public-relations big leagues. Example — a new poll conducted for Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation showing that “64 percent of voters said they would approve proposals that would establish state-licensed marijuana dispensaries to cultivate and provide marijuana…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has been among the state’s most vocal critics of current medical-marijuana policy. So it’s no wonder conservative columnist George Will sought him out — and they apparently got along famously. In a November 25 entry on his Facebook page, Suthers wrote: “Had breakfast with political…
Earlier today, we told you about a lawsuit aimed at Centennial for closing CannaMart, a medical-marijuana dispensary, in mid-October. According to Bob Hoban, one of two attorneys representing the patients and caregivers bringing the suit, a ruling in the case could turn out to be precedent-setting — not that such…
Medical-marijuana patients and providers, as well as the attorneys who argue on their behalf, haven’t always found the courts to be in their corner. Witness the controversial ruling in the Stacy Clendenin case, which caused the Board of Health to alter its definition of caregiver — at least until a…
Today’s just-published review of Highlands Health 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 current list can be found by clicking here…
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…
Two months ago, we posted a notice that we were looking for a medical marijuana critic, to review the dispensaries that were springing up across Colorado. Hundreds of applications, many international media inquiries and probably dozens of new dispensaries later, we’ve chosen our critics. Read their bios below…
Emerging from the sweet-smelling smoke cloud left by the medical-marijuana explosion is Toke of the Town, a new national blog dedicated to all things weed. The blog is powered by Village Voice Media, Westword’s parent company and the engine behind geek blog Topless Robot and crime blog True Crime Report…
Move over, Cheech and Chong: The two most important people in Colorado’s marijuana scene are Brian Vicente and Mason Tvert — and they’re out to prove it by passing a statewide initiative in 2012 that will legalize marijuana for all Coloradans over 21. Vicente and Tvert unveiled the plan last…
