Editor’s note: William Breathes’s medical marijuana dispensary review, normally published at this time, needs a little more time to cure. In its stead, we bring you an update about a town going to extremes to prevent a cannabis store from opening nearby. Earlier this week, we noted that Granby’s Board…
Dear Stoner: I’m a committed home brewer, and I was wondering how to make pot beer. I was thinking of adding oil to my beer, but I didn’t know if that wouldn’t dissolve in beer. I also thought about putting flower in the beer, like a hop, and boiling it…
Hemp clothing/lifestyle-product group Hemp House is throwing the city’s first Nug Hunt — a scavenger hunt planned for mid-January, when the company will give away coupons for 24 penny-priced eighths of herb from Evergreen Apothecary and Colorado Harvest Company. See also: Medical Marijuana Dispensary Review: Altitude the Dispensary (West)…
The Journal of the American Medical Association has published a report penned by three emergency room physicians at the University of Colorado hospital in Aurora about the health-related fallout from marijuana legalization in the state. And while there are some positives to be found in the material, most of the…
We’ve been reporting about one of marijuana attorney Robert Hoban’s more unusual cases, involving the Town of Granby’s efforts to block a pot shop by annexing the unincorporated land its owner had leased. But he’s also assisting another ganjapreneur in an equally strange face-off with a local community. In this…
Update: Last week, we told you about the Town of Granby’s efforts to block a pot shop and grow by annexing the unincorporated land its owner had leased; see our previous coverage below. A hearing about the matter was supposed to be held on Friday, but it was postponed to…
Wednesday’s the big day for pot events this week, between a responsible vendor training program, a film screening and cannabis business awards. Hopefully you’ve got some idea of where you’d like to be — and if not, keep reading. See also: Charlotte’s Web: Untangling One of Colorado’s Biggest Cannabis Success…
This article from the May 1914 Summit County Journal gives a good idea of the official national temperament toward drugs at the time with a summary of the 1914 Harrison Narcotic Tax Act. But it’s the accompanying cartoon that tells the real story. See also: Cannabis Time Capsule, 1893: Horses…
Not to get all pot-snobby here, but buying pot legally at a dispensary has gone from a completely mind-blowing unique experience to one I equate with all my other weekly errands. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy it, but I’ve found that I treat it along the same lines…
Plenty of Colorado municipalities have chosen to ban marijuana businesses, but few have gone to the extremes of Granby, a gorgeous community in Grand County. Officials have threatened to annex land that’s not officially part of the town to prevent a marijuana shop from opening there — a plan it’s…
Dear Stoner: How long does it take for pot to go to four nanograms in the bloodstream so a person can drive? Does it happen overnight? What if they are smoking at midnight and really stoned? Also, I know I can grow my six plants with three flowering. Can that…
In Colorado, if you’re 21 or older, you’re free to buy, use, grow and give away cannabis. You can even apply for a sales license to grow and sell it for profit. But what you can’t do is take pounds of it across state lines and try to make a…
Eric Prine’s uncontrollable seizures began in late 1992, not long after the six-month-old’s parents, Ronnie and Jennifer, took him to the doctor for routine vaccinations. The near-constant seizures soon left Eric a shell of his former self. “We lost every bit that was him,” says Ronnie. “We never saw any…
When we spoke to Colorado-born, Hawaii-based THC Ministry founder Roger Christie in June 2010, he was readying a challenge to the federal government’s marijuana laws that would have treated dispensaries like churches. But mere weeks later, he was busted by the feds on pot distribution charges and spent the next…
Last week, we noted that marijuana businesses were embracing Black Friday, with The Grass Station leading the charge via $50 ounces for the first sixteen customers on November 26-28. And while the promotion was presumably aimed at local customers, the whole “Green Friday” concept definitely got national exposure. See also:…
If you have an opinion about how cannabis edibles should be labeled and packaged, then you’ve got just a few hours left to share your views with the state. Or you can listen to reggae with like-minded growers, sign up for a glassblowing class and more. See also: Pot-Related Souvenir…
This January 15, 1896 story, “Joy for the Topers” (old-timer slang for drunks), mentions cannabis in passing, but the majority of the piece is on the wonders and joys of eating peyote and mescaline — notable, mostly, because it was written some seventy years before Hunter S. Thompson and his…
Denver International Airport is suffering through one of its busiest weeks of the year as Thanksgiving travelers jam the ticket and security lines, baggage claims and cab stands, and the restaurants and souvenir shops. And while their suitcases may be full of warm sweaters, early holiday presents and leftover pie,…
For being so out in the open, the dispensary is really quite hidden on a small retail stretch of Pearl Street at East Alameda Avenue, anchored by a convenience store across the street that doubles as the cash-only dispensary’s ATM. I’ve probably driven past it 1,000 times in the last…
Dear Stoner: I have a question about medical marijuana, in terms of what the best strains are for seizures. I was diagnosed with cancer a long time ago — brain cancer, in particular — and they gave me anywhere from a week to a few months to live, but here…
For years, financial hassles have forced a multimillion-dollar industry to rely almost entirely on cash and to keep any bank accounts under hush-hush names because fed-fearing financial institutions are wary of doing business with state-legal pot shops. But dispensaries in Colorado are finally seeing a ray of hope, now that…
It’s become a common sight in Colorado — at Broncos games, in movie theaters and malls, in the bathrooms at bars and clubs, even behind high schools and in employee parking lots. People will quickly, slyly grab a device from their pocket that looks like a pen and put it…
