The Denver Police Department has done a good job of scaring people into thinking there will be a rash of regular pot users willing to spend ten bucks on a candy bar so that they can secretly dose a little kid while trick-or-treating on Halloween; see a DPD video below…
Against the backdrop of a Colorado health department official formally recommending that almost all marijuana edibles be banned, the Children’s Hospital of Colorado staged a weed-related Twitter chat this morning, with one of its focuses being how to talk pot with children under the age of ten. Among the pieces…
The latest entry in our marijuana edibles video series arrives at a propitious moment: This week, a Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment official formally recommended that almost all such products be banned. Among the arguments against a change of this magnitude is the demand described by Incredibles owner…
“We want the general public to be able to tell a marijuana cookie from a Chips Ahoy cookie just by looking at it.” That’s the intent behind the edible work group currently hashing out recommendations for future edible packaging. And one recommendation submitted yesterday would solve that problem by eliminating…
During the upcoming midterm elections, Hispanic voters are likely to be key in many races across the country — but could they slow the move toward broader marijuana legalization? That possibility is among the takeaways from a Pew Research Center study looking at Latino voting trends. PRC found that Hispanics…
UPDATE: The ban may not have happened, but as of February 2015, Colorado has new restrictions governing the sale of edible pot. William Breathes explains what the new edibles rules mean for you. At this hour, a rule-making meeting is underway in regard to implementing a law that requires marijuana…
The next meeting to discuss the implementation of a law requiring that marijuana edibles look different from everyday food products will take place this afternoon — and there are more pot-related events happening this week, too. Keep reading to learn more: See also: Recreational Marijuana Sales Outpace MMJ in August…
Dope! That’s what comic books are! Dope! And those dirty books should be scrubbed, put through the wringer and have the dirt squeezed from them! At least, that’s the gist of this December 30, 1948 column in the Steamboat Pilot by George Bowra, an (at the time) relatively well-known figure…
Weedar: the sixth sense you have for finding quality herb. Mine usually operates pretty well and has come in handy both here in Colorado and during world travels, when finding the pot-friendly who can get the sticky-icky can come in handy. So either my weedar wasn’t working over the last…
Dear Stoner: Is it legal to sell my old bong on Craigslist?Broke Glass Dear Broke: This was a head-scratcher. Though we figured the answer was yes, considering you can buy things like used underwear on Craigslist, we weren’t sure if there were laws that prohibit selling a used cannabis pipe,…
In August, recreational cannabis sales outpaced medical sales in Colorado for the second month in a row, with rec topping medical by about $730,000 en route to total sales of $32,999,068. All told, the state saw more than $65 million in pot sold in August. That beat the old record…
Sweet Mary Jane Cooks Up Cannabis Success in Denver from Voice Media Group on Vimeo. For the second of Westword’s video series about pot edibles in Colorado (following our profile of Dixie Elixirs), our team sat down with Karin Lazarus, owner of the award-winning Sweet Mary Jane Bakery — and…
Aurora’s new recreational pot shops weren’t the only venues to land rec licenses between September 1 and October 1 this year. Licenses for recreational stores were granted in five brand-new municipalities — and there was a lot more happening on the state’s licensing list. Keep reading to find out what:…
Last month, after we shared Denver Police Department concerns about trick-or-treaters possibly receiving pot edibles while trick-or-treating this Halloween, literally hundreds of readers (including these) dismissed such fears as unreasonable and reactionary. But the DPD isn’t backing down. The department has now issued a video in which Urban Dispensary owner…
We always appreciate it when men and women of genius acknowledge our work. So our imagine our delight when we discovered that Miley Cyrus, recently lauded by our own Kiernan Maletsky as pop’s greatest role model, used Instagram to put herself into a vintage Westword cover illustration. See what we…
Last week, we reported that Euflora, located at 6260 South Gun Club Road, would be the first recreational marijuana shop to open in Aurora — and the dispensary is indeed making its debut today. But that’s not the only item on our cannabis calendar. There are plenty more events to…
This story out of the Akron Weekly Pioneer circa 1921 is an odd one. Not for the ancient Chinese mysticism involved, though that’s plenty intriguing. No, it’s because we can’t tell if it was meant to scare the general public, bewilder them or truly inform. It speaks of a “Chinese…
The lobby and bud-bar walls of Herbal Wellness are literally covered with framed head shots of random celebrities, all signed (I assume) to the owner, mostly from people who were big in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. Some I got, like Cheech and Chong. But for most of them, I…
It was all over the news when Aurora decided to allow recreational dispensaries within city limits — but October 1, the date when those dispensaries could theoretically open doors, came and went without a puff of smoke. So what’s the status with these 21 new recreational dispensaries? Here’s what we…
Dear Stoner: I’ve got crews coming in to work on things like my plumbing and some minor remodeling in the coming weeks (as well as a regular pest-control guy). I’ve been hiding my pot from the pest guy, but should I really care about putting away my pot and pipes…
Colorado edibles manufacturer TinctureBelle made news this past summer — not for the potency of its products, but because of the remarkable resemblance of the small-time pot company’s packaging to that of mega-international giant Hershey’s. It was so similar, in fact, that Hershey’s filed suit in federal court. The questionable…
Did you know that Colorado is suffering from a terrible marijuana shortage? Neither did we — but if it ever happens, the folks at NYHETER24 have created a “public-service announcement” dubbed Colorado #SaveTheWeed that should help you get through it. The hashtags that will help remind the kind community to…
