Kudos to Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett for boldly going where few elected officials are willing go these days: into the politically thorny issue of marijuana. Most politicians these days are staying as far away from the subject as possible. This summer, the state health department tried to limit the…
Colorado’s flourishing medical marijuana industry, with nearly a hundred pot dispensaries statewide servicing thousands and thousands of marijuana patients, got its start in 2000, when state voters legalized medical marijuana by passing Amendment 20. But who was the ganja genius who came up with the amendment? Most people in the…
At 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Colorado Court of Appeals, oral arguments will be presented in the matter of Stacy Clendenin, a medical-marijuana patient and provider who’s appealing her 2006 conviction for felony possession and distribution of ganja — and the folks at the Colorado 420 Coaltion, an organization devoted…
Trance, trance, trance. Today in Cafe Society: • Notiq Rupture wins Hpnotiq Bartender Competition. • Tonight: Harvest week wine dinner with monkeys at Avenue Grill. • Confusion reigns over Zaidy’s Fusion Grill. • Part two: Chef and Tell with Paul Reilly of Encore. • Ten breweries we can’t wait to…
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 look at what goes…
As noted in this week’s cover story, “Pot of Gold,” while Colorado’s Amendment 20, which legalized marijuana in 2000, does not cover the subject of marijuana dispensaries, a flood of such operations are opening statewide under the auspices of a complicated legal framework that’s evolved within the vague constraints of…
The latest buzz in medicine is “green healthcare,” where every affliction will be treated by a new strain of marijuana marketing! Labels to look for at your local dispensary include……
In this week’s Westword, Joel Warner reports on the “ganjapreneurs” cashing in on Colorado’s booming medical-marijuana business. In it, he explores the growing number of dispensaries and offers an introduction to the Candy Girls, a team of marijuana edible bakers operating out of a rented apartment north of Denver. See…
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…
