The family of a seizure-stricken little girl who became the face of medical marijuana in New Jersey has moved to Colorado after that state’s MMJ program completely failed them, the parents say. Meghan and Brian Wilson maintain that they aren’t angry with New Jersey officials. However, they felt they needed…
Update: Last week, we highlighted five recent explosions, allegedly caused by people whose attempts to make butane hash oil went up in smoke; see our previous coverage below. Apparently, two people at a Grand Junction motel didn’t heed our warnings, because their hash-oil-making efforts ended in flames, burns and a…
The Movoto real estate blog put together its list of the ten highest American cities includes three Colorado community way, way up on the list. No surprise, right? Well, at least one of the picks is genuinely unexpected, and so are multiple omissions. Count down the top ten below, complete…
The literal high point of the annual Denver 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park comes at 4:20 p.m., when attendees light up simultaneously. But could this ritual be absent from the 2014 edition of festival? A few weeks back, rally attorney Rob Corry answered this question with a letter to…
In June 2013, we told you about a 71-count indictment accusing businessman Conley Hoskins and eleven others with defrauding investors who wanted to cash in on the state’s booming medical marijuana industry. That move was taken by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, but now, the feds are getting involved. The…
In the wake of Amendment 64’s passage, some officials worried marijuana sales tax revenues wouldn’t pay for needed regulation. But at least in month one, such concerns proved to be unfounded. The retail pot sales launch resulted in a gusher of cash, with more than $3.5 million in tax revenues…
Last month, we told you about a lawsuit filed against Broncos owner Pat Bowlen after a vehicle was twice ejected from a Mile High Stadium parking lot because it was emblazoned with the logo of Cannabis University. Since then, the Colorado Civil Rights Division has informed the Broncos about the…
Last October, when the Denver City Council was debating an ordinance that would have established fines and even jail time for home pot smoking that could be smelled from neighboring properties, we put together a list of the five Colorado places that smell worse than the pot smoker next door…
Could marijuana have played a role in fixing one of the most important American boxing matches in history? Probably not, but we’ve uncovered at least one harebrained scheme reported in a Colorado newspaper in1889 that says it could be plausible. As far as fighters go, John Lawrence Sullivan was one…
The Colorado Department of Transportation has launched a wide-ranging multi-media campaign intended to stop stoned motorists from getting behind the wheel. It’s simple slogan: “Drive high, get a DUI.” At this point, stats showing the scope of the stoned driving problem or if it’s been increasing don’t exist. But CDOT…
Alive Herbal Medicine seems out of place. Not because it’s situated in the small Sunnyside neighborhood next to a residential area, or because the corrugated tin barn of a building looks like it belongs on a farm and not off a busy interstate in the middle of Denver. What feels…
Dear Stoner: What’s up with this German study claiming that two people have died from marijuana? What’s the call here?Def J. Dear Def J.: That study is based on some pretty circumstantial evidence: Researchers cite a couple of reports about two men in their twenties whose blood pressure increased slightly…
Even though Colorado received more than 40,000 new medical marijuana patient applications in 2013, the total number of active patients on the state’s registry stayed about the same as in 2012, when voters went beyond MMJ to let adults 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of cannabis…
We recently shared an Inside Edition report about smoke shacks at ski areas — after which personnel at Breckenridge destroyed Leo’s Smoke Shack, which had been featured in hidden-camera footage. But while Leo’s is gone, its spirit lives in a hilarious parody put together by photog Arthur Balluff and a…
Artistic entrepreneur Dana Cain, co-founder of the Denver County Fair, can cross one thing off her bucket list. She’s going to be in Penthouse magazine. “They wanted me to be the centerfold, but I don’t know about that,” she jokes. “I’m not at liberty to share the photos.” Okay, so…
Yesterday, we told you about the decision by administrators at CU-Boulder to close the campus on 4/20 for the third consecutive year; see our previous coverage below. Presumably, there won’t be much going on in the buildings near Norlin Quad (longtime ground zero of 4/20 at CU) on the date,…
Last month, we shared a letter sent by Rob Corry, attorney for the 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park, to Mayor Michael Hancock and Denver City Council. The gist: While public pot smoking is nixed by Amendment 64, the measure allows it at home — and since Civic Center Park…
In early January, shortly after the launch of legal recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, we posted about several pot satires that were mistaken for actual news, including one claiming that weed overdoses killed 37 people on day one of retail operations here. Michael Pristoop was among those fooled, and he…
Hemp farmers can now register with the Colorado Department of Agriculture to become sanctioned growers of the long-outlawed crop. The registration officially opened on March 1, a Saturday — and this is the first business day that hemp registration is, well, open for business. But the state agriculture department wants…
With a headline like “To Farm Insanity Plant,” we were hoping to find a grow guide of sorts from 1909. But alas, that wasn’t the case. Instead, this article from the March 5, 1909 Yampa Leader was just more of the usual anti-marijuana propaganda connecting cannabis with the feared brown-skinned…
Two years ago, when we first stopped by Chronorado Medical in Denver, we left unimpressed but hopeful after discovering the White Urkle we brought home was infested with bugs. It was a shame, because otherwise, the buds were plump, ripe with THC goodness and stank to high heaven with light…
Inside Edition’s hysterical report about ski-area smoke shacks — a phenomenon our William Breathes has been covering for years — was quickly followed by the destruction of Leo’s Smoke Shack in Breckenridge, the most elaborate structure featured in the IE piece. Although a ski-area rep who spoke to us about…
