Creative commons/Matt Wright.Yesterday marked the deadline for Colorado’s 271 cities and towns and 64 counties to decide whether they want to ban recreational cannabis businesses and sales — and it is starting to look like Denver will be ganja ground zero. Already, four of the ten largest cities in Colorado…
Update below: Attorney Rob Corry still isn’t talking about his recent public pot smoking bust. But he’s got lots to say about No on Proposition AA, a campaign fighting a marijuana tax measure up for vote in November. He’s already helped organize joint giveaway rallies in Denver and Boulder. Now,…
America’s first (known) hemp harvest in more than fifty years began this month in southeastern Colorado. This past spring, following last year’s passage of Amendment 64, which legalized small amounts of marijuana for adults and paved the way for industrial hemp production, farmer Ryan Loflin planted 55 acres of marijuana’s…
Westword cover story subject Jenny Kush’s favorite color was purple. So it was only fitting that her friends and family — draped in purple T-shirts — gathered last night to remember Kush, a cannabis activist killed by a drunk driver, by the purple flowers on the west steps of the…
Every now and then on our searches for Cannabis Time Capsule artifacts, we find news briefs too short to post about on their own. But they are too good to go unread, so we’ve compiled a handful of our favorites below. Read on to find out the explanation for psychedelic…
The recent floods in Boulder had one positive effect: The University of Colorado football game was canceled last weekend. I know it’s selfish of me, but Boulder is much, much easier to get around without thousands of people masquerading as fans for a subpar college football team and using it…
Earlier this week, we reported about the war of words between supporters and opponents of Proposition AA, which would set tax rates for recreational pot sales. Attorney Rob Corry, who thinks the tax levels are too high (a point made at not one but two free-joint rallies this month), has…
Dear Stoner: We’re flying in for the Eagles game next weekend, and I want to get stoned before I go in. What’s my over-under on that? Green & Black Dear Fans of a Lesser Team: This question has come up a few times, actually. Yes, you can get stoned before…
Last week, Telluride officially approved sales of recreational cannabis, joining a majority of other tourism-reliant ski towns around the state that have given an okay to the ganja. Telluride took one of the easiest routes to retail-weed approval possible, with the city council voting in an application and regulatory system…
In reporting “The life and tragic death of cannabis advocate Jenny Kush,” our feature article about a cannabis activist and Internet radio host killed by a drunk driver, we heard a lot of good stories and kind words that we just couldn’t quite squeeze in. Thankfully, there’s always room on…
Opponents of Proposition AA, intended to set tax rates on recreational marijuana sales, have gotten a lot of attention for showy events like Monday’s free-joint giveaway on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. But polls earlier this year showed 77 percent of those surveyed support such taxes, and Joe Megyesy, communications director…
Last week’s feature on Jenny Kush, a cannabis activist killed by a drunk driver, brought to light just one of the 1,342 impaired-driving arrests in Colorado made over a nineteen-day period around Labor Day weekend. Figuring out how many people are caught driving stoned is especially important here, since doing…
Yesterday’s free-joint giveaway on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, staged by opponents of marijuana tax measure Proposition AA, didn’t include Vice President Joe Biden, who’d been invited by co-organizer Rob Corry to take part in between tours of areas devastated by recent flooding. The Biden angle, and the latest rally, has…
The second free-joint giveaway sponsored by opponents to Proposition AA, the marijuana taxation measure on November’s ballot, took place beginning at 11 a.m. today on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. And according to photographer Brandon Marshall, who snapped the images on view below, it was hardly a mob scene. While he…
As we’ve reported, a protest against marijuana taxation measure Proposition AA is scheduled to take place at 11 a.m. today on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, complete with free joints for attendees. The event, and an invitation for Vice President Joe Biden to participate, has already come under fire from the…
Earlier this month, a group opposed to Proposition AA, the measure to establish tax rates on recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, staged a rally at Civic Center Park during which attendees were given free joints. Now, that same group, No on Proposition AA, is planning a second free-joint event tomorrow…
In researching this week’s feature article about the life and death of cannabis activist Jenny Kush, a lot of people we spoke with emphasized that she was also quite the artist in addition to the long list of other hats she wore — including the host of SexPot Radio. iCannabisRadio…
This dispensary has closed. If there were ever businesses open to the public even though the public clearly didn’t want them to be, they’d have to be the few remaining Blockbuster Video stores that have limped along through the past five or six years. With a selection of ten DVDs…
This week’s feature article about the life and death of cannabis activist Jenny Kush tells the story of a woman who connected with hundreds thousands of people in part through a no-holds-barred weekly radio show covering two of her favorite topics: sex and marijuana. Kush may have been taken away…
Dear Stoner: Are edibles the best way to get high on the downlow? I have a retail job, and when the holiday season arrives, the place turns into a hellish nightmare of customers running me around like a chicken with its butt-feathers on fire. I desperately want to use marijuana…
The Colorado medical marijuana patient registry saw the largest increase in active patient numbers in months this summer, growing by 2,475 patients to 109,292 people from June to July. The Department of Revenue received a total of 3,514 applications during that time period and hasn’t reported any denials. That means…
For months, we’ve been following Denver City Council’s efforts to write and pass rules for the retail marijuana industry. This task was finally accomplished at Monday evening’s council meeting (see what we believe to be the final document below), and a pot-biz spokesman is pleased by the results. But attorney…
