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…
Earlier this week, we rounded up the cool reaction by some national pundits, including the New York Times’ David Brooks and the Daily Beast’s Tina Brown, to the start of legal recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. Among those with negative responses to the pieces we mentioned was Betty Aldworth, deputy…
Houstonian Joe Mattingly likes the finer things in life. Namely, he enjoys expensive ski trips to Vail, Beaver Creek, Utah and Lake Tahoe. And now he’s thinking about visiting Steamboat Springs. The only problem? Colorado legalized marijuana and this Texan doesn’t want it interfering with his vacation. In fact, he…
It had been about three years since I was last in The Herbal Cure to check out the herb. And within a minute of my most recent visit, it was easy to tell that the shop has done a lot of, um, growing in that time. Not that the herb…
Earlier this week, we told you about satirical news stories on Colorado pot sales that some people appeared to be taking seriously, including one whose headline claimed that “Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37.” Have the citizens of Internet Nation learned anything from these experiences? Not all of them, apparently. Enough folks…
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…
Dear Stoner: It’s legal to grow up to six plants and gift an ounce of herb to anyone 21 and up, and it’s legal to buy it in a store. But is it illegal for patients to share product given to them or purchased from a store? Once a product…
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…
Today marks one week since the launch of recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, and despite the concerns voiced by pot-legalization critics, the state appears to be surviving just fine. Meanwhile, the expansion of the recreational cannabis biz continues apace. According to one industry representative, more than fifty are now open…
Last week, William Breathes told you about a marijuana possession ban at DIA. Turns out, though, that a new rule outlining sweeping marijuana policy at the airport has yet to be formally adopted and implemented — and the public will have a chance to weigh in about it at a…
The inability of marijuana businesses to straight-forwardly stash their cash in standard financial institutions due to federal banking regulations aimed at stopping drug trafficking has been an issue in Colorado for years. But despite Obama administration statements about possible fixes and a request from Governor John Hickenlooper more than three…
As we noted earlier today, the national media’s response to the launch of recreational pot sales in Colorado suggests a case of news munchies, with the mainstream press, satirists and everyone in between sharing views on the topic — including pundits and personalities less than thrilled by the development. Most…
Since the launch of legal marijuana sales in Colorado on January 1, major media organizations have taken hit after hit of news from the scene. And the nation’s satirists have been busy as well, cranking out stories with headlines such as “Marijuana Overdoses Kill 37 in Colorado On First Day…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Despite the snow, the holiday and the long lines, 3D Cannabis Center was abuzz with excitement yesterday morning with the start of recreational marijuana sales. Attempting to navigate both the media’s hungry demand for more information on this historic event and the public’s hungry demand for their first purchase of…
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…
As lines began wrapping entire blocks in Denver, we headed up to Central City and Annie’s — a shop that has the distinction of receiving the first local licensing approval for recreational retail sales six weeks ago, well before the state got around to licensing anyone. There wasn’t a line…
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…
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…
