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…
Either the cold weather is slowing down business in general, or the recreational boom in cannabis is finally slowing down. There were nine additions to the recreational licensing list last month — and shockingly, not one of those locations was in Aurora. Find out where they all were instead: See…
Earlier today, a new billboard encouraging responsible storage of marijuana edibles was introduced by the Marijuana Policy Project; see more images below. MPP spokesman Mason Tvert stresses that the display is part of an ongoing educational campaign and shouldn’t be interpreted as message to legislators, who’ll be making decisions about…
Remember those never-ending working group meetings surrounding the never-say-die edibles bill? The working group has been unable to reach a consensus, but you still have a chance to offer a public comment…if you do it quickly. Keep reading for details. See also: Marijuana: Pot Sales Down, Patient Numbers Up in…
Willie Nelson says he gives his horses beer, but according to this 1893 article in the Leadville Herald-Democrat, he should be using weed. Yes, the cure for a worn-down horse is good-old THC. See also: “Medical Marijuana Dispensary Review: Five Years Later at Walking Raven in Denver”…
Like most people, I fondly remember losing my virginity — not that things went perfectly the first time out. The experience was stumbly, fumbly and over in less time than it took to write this sentence. But still, somehow in my mind, it was one of the greatest life moments…
Dear Stoner: I know it’s not legal to puff out in front of a restaurant or whatever, but what happens if I get busted smoking weed in public? Is it really that bad?Pete B. Puffin Dear Pete: We don’t think it’s that bad, and we regularly bend the rules ourselves…
Medical marijuana patients paid more than $31.3 million for ganga and ganja-infused product in September, netting the state $908,630 in taxes. Recreational sales were at just over $30.5 million during the same period, which means that MMJ sales outpaced recreational sales that month. In fact, sales of recreational pot dropped…
While limited recreational marijuana sales are legal in Colorado, smoking in public is not — an untenable situation according to cannabis advocates such as NORML’s Allen St. Pierre. The result has been an enormous increase in public-consumption citations, which have reportedly risen in Denver by an astonishing 471 percent from…
There are still places in Colorado without dispensaries, believe it or not — but fewer of them every month. In October, a medical marijuana dispensary license was granted to a store in Tabernash, and several other licenses were allotted in municipalities that have established dispensaries. Here’s a closer look. See…
Update: Earlier this week, we told you about a recount in a recreational-marijuana vote for Palisade, on Colorado’s Western Slope. The measure was behind by four votes, but eighteen ballots were in dispute and might possibly reverse the outcome; see our previous coverage below. Now, the count is official, and…
There’s yet another edibles work-group meeting first thing this morning in Golden, and there’s a lot more happening this week in cannabis. Keep reading to find out what: See also: DIA Says Pot Merchandise Won’t Fly — But You Can Weigh In…
We thought finding one article about curing foot ailments with cannabis was strange and rare enough. But apparently it wasn’t as oddball as it seems according to this strange advertisement/article in the Leadville Evening Chronicle from 126 years ago almost to the day. See also: “DIA Says Pot Merchandise Won’t…
Herban Medicinals takes up the basement of the building at 70 Broadway, just down the street from Sweet Action Ice Cream. Coincidence? Likely. But I stopped in for a pint of the pumpkin pie ice cream, and I’ll bet I’m not the first medical pot patient to wander south a…
Dear Stoner: How are recreational marijuana tax revenues being distributed within the state? Is this information made available to the public? I think if people see that the tax revenues are being used to help schools, fix the terrible roads and help the homeless, opinions may be changed.Money Bags of…
There is a difference between cannabis and a t-shirt. But the distinction doesn’t really matter much at Denver International Airport, which recently published the details for a public hearing at which it plans to ban the sale of marijuana-themed souvenirs. See also: Marijuana: Antique Row Backers Cool to “Green Mile”…
In August, a number of people came forward to say they’d gotten sick after eating chocolate from the LivWell booth at the Denver County Fair. Turns out the sweets they’d ingested were actually marijuana edibles, which weren’t supposed to be handed out on fair grounds. A class-action lawsuit followed, with…
This past Friday, IRIS Fire Investigations held a “Hash Oil Hazards Training for the Insurance Industry” seminar. The seminar focused primarily on the ways that making hash oil at home (typically using butane) can go terribly wrong, and what investigators at a suspicious fire should look for. But there was…
Tonight, a Medicinal Cannabis Discussion Panel will take place up in Frisco, with experts on hand to provide knowledge to the medical industry about cannabis — and there’s a lot more going up in smoke, so to speak. See also: Marijuana: Eighteen Disputed Ballots to Decide if One Colorado Town…
I mentioned the story of Robert Mitchum to a marijuana consuming friend recently, and he had no idea who I was talking about. It’s a shame, because Mitchum is one of America’s first admitted pot-smoking Hollywood badasses. See, Robert Mitchum was the dude. Ladies loved him, he was a star…
As our William Breathes reported earlier this week, Manitou Springs voters approved recreational marijuana sales in their town, while residents of other communities turned thumbs-down. The folks in Palisade, on Colorado’s Western Slope, are somewhere in-between on the issue, at least for now. A recreational-pot measure appeared to narrowly lose,…
I used to smoke cigarettes when I was a dumb teenager. I quit, though. And while I try not to pass judgment on my friends who still smoke them, I find burning tobacco to be among the most foul and offensive odors ever. I’m not alone. It’s why we have…
