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…
When Jesse Watters, a correspondent for The O’Reilly Factor, visited Denver last month, he interviewed a number of colorful homeless characters about marijuana. He spoke briefly with a guy who said he was “medicating” but couldn’t name his ailment, and another guy who said he’s been smoking dope since he…
Dear Stoner: As a medical marijuana patient, I am interested in growing my own meds, but not in or around the house, where the kids are. Do you know of something like a growing co-op that would allow me to grow somewhere else?Greenhouse Gary Dear Gary: If you’re staying strictly…
Just over three months after Maggie’s Farm opened its doors as the first recreational pot shop in Manitou Springs and began dumping money into town coffers, voters gave the business a thumbs-up, overwhelmingly defeating a proposal to ban recreational pot sales in the town. See also: “Oregon, Alaska Legalize Rec…
Update below: Marijuana fared a lot better than Democrats did at the polls yesterday. Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C. passed recreational marijuana measures closely modeled on Colorado’s, and while a medical marijuana amendment failed in Florida, it still managed to collect 58 percent support. (Under Florida law, 60 percent was…
It won’t come as a surprise to anyone who follows the cannabis industry that last week’s inaugural National Cannabis Industry Association’s Infused Product and Extraction Symposium focused heavily on safety issues — both consumer safety and employee safety. The importance of proper procedures and protocols was emphasized in almost every…
There’s a joint-rolling competition this weekend, and next week is going to be packed with events. So pull out your datebooks and start penciling some things in. See also: Marijuana Study: Legalization Hasn’t Hurt or Helped Colorado as Much as Predicted…
On Halloween, the Denver Police Department’s warnings about trick-or-treaters possibly being slipped marijuana edibles reached its peak with the graphic seen here — one that essentially suggests, against all available evidence, that pot candy could kill children. But if DPD reps hoped the #CheatTheReaper hashtag would become a thing, they…
For this extra-scary edition of Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule, we bring you a story that is strangely similar to one we’re living right now: the fear that kids are sneaking pot edibles and getting intoxicated right under our noses! Then, like now, the story was largely the product of a…
Halloween is tonight, and that means you can’t go two steps in Denver without tripping over a pumpkin. The gourds are everywhere: on people’s doorsteps, in their windows, in their pies and lattes. But when dawn breaks on November 1, all of those seasonal squashes are going to seem suddenly…
Even the name of Doctor’s Orders seems gimmicky to me, especially paired with the cartoonish image used by the shop, featuring a burnout hippie doctor who writes pot recommendations for any ailment under the sun. I know that goes on; I’m not naive. But it doesn’t represent the majority of…
Dear Stoner: Do you think the Denver Police Department is right, and kids are going to get pot candy in their bags?Frank N. Stein Dear Frank: Not at all. This is just an updated version of the tired old story that fearmongering cops — and paranoid parents — have been…
Colorado and Washington might get some company next week. Marijuana legalization initiatives are on the ballots in Alaska, Oregon and Washington, D.C., and the proposals all strongly resemble what Colorado voters approved in 2012. See also: Pot Lies Being Used to Justify Police Shootings of Young Black and Brown Men,…
As we’ve reported, prominent addiction specialist and Project SAM principal Dr. Christian Thurstone stirred controversy via a blog post implying that marijuana contributed to — and perhaps even caused — the death of Michael Brown, whose shooting by a police officer caused weeks of rioting in Ferguson, Missouri. Thurstone subsequently…
