Photos: Ten dankest marijuana strains of 2013

Editor’s note: William Breathes became the planet’s first professional medical marijuana critic when he joined Westword in 2009, and since then, he’s emerged as the local expert on all things cannabis. Today, he lists the ten dankest marijuana strains of 2013. Check out his choices below, and click on the…

Photos: Recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, week one

As of today, it’s been one week since legal recreational marijuana sales launched in Colorado, and Westword’s photographers have been hard at work covering the story. Get an inside look below via samples from three separate slide shows: January 1’s “Recreational marijuana sales begin in Denver,” January 3’s “Behind the…

Marijuana: Understanding the recreational pot “shortage”

Marijuana grows on trees, but some newly minted Colorado recreational centers faced a shortages less than a week after opening — even though medical dispensary shelves remain stocked. As a result, several retail stores, including the high-profile 3D Cannabis Center, have voiced concerns that they won’t be able to keep…

Kayvan Khalatbari bankrolls Denver comedy with marijuana and pizza

UPDATE: After investing in pizza, pot, and Denver’s comedy scene, Kayvan Khalatbari’s next stop may be local government. The ganjapreneur will run for an at-large seat on Denver’s city council in May 2015. We talked to Khalatbari about his campaign to find out why. While the national media may know…

Medical marijuana dispensary review: Good Chemistry in Denver

It wasn’t a complete shit-show for weed everywhere in Colorado yesterday. Aside from a handful of phone calls about whether or not the shops were selling recreational weed and the occasional stop-in from a confused would-be recreational buyer, regular medical marijuana dispensaries had a slow, normal New Year’s Day (if…

O.pen VAPE’s marijuana tours of Denver launches on legalization day

In light of the city’s unexpected crackdown on the Cannabition smokeout, organizers of yesterday’s cancelled event, along with vaporizer company O.pen VAPE, funneled their resources into the launch of My 420 Tours, which basically consisted of loading reporters and smokers onto a party bus, handing out free, loaded vaporizers and…

Marijuana: Making cannabis history at Northern Lights

I had never seen so many people so happy to stand in line for two and a half hours. When I arrived at the Northern Lights Cannabis Company, just across from Sloan’s Lake in Edgewater, around 2:45 p.m. on New Year’s Day, I found about 100 people there ahead of…

Our Stoner tweaks the city’s retail marijuana page

For this week’s Ask a Stoner, our ganja guru took a look at the questions and answers on the City of Denver’s official retail marijuana page. While most of the site’s advice is solid and straightforward, some of it needed tweaking by an actual cannabis user. It is illegal to…

Marijuana: Buying recreational pot in Denver

Westword has a team of writers and photographers around Colorado today covering the start of legalized cannabis sales to adults 21 and up. Though the rest of the Westword blogs are sleeping today, we’ll be updating The Latest Word through the day with dispatches from the field. Read on for…

Win tickets to ride the Cannabition bus on January 1

Cannabition’s public pot-smoking party at NORAD may be dead in the water, but the event’s organizers will still be celebrating the beginning of retail marijuana sales tomorrow with a bus tour of Denver pot highlights, including a behind-the-scenes peek at a retail dispensary and a grow site. Now, we’re giving…