Last week, opponents of Proposition AA, the measure to establish tax rates for recreational marijuana, staged a rally at Civic Center Park at which adults 21 and over who attended were given free joints. In the days that followed, board members of Colorado NORML came out against Prop AA, too…
As you may have heard, 21-and-over adults can legally use and possess small amounts of marijuana in Colorado. But plenty of folks, including ones of age, continue to use incense typically marked “not for human consumption” as synthetic marijuana, with as many as 150 illnesses linked to the substance, popularly…
Editor’s note: William Breathes is on assignment — which gives us the perfect excuse to flash back to his very first Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule. By the 1930s, cannabis was considered a growing menace in Denver society. The drug of choice for minorities (mostly Hispanic natives and immigrants who worked…
Earlier this week, Miguel Lopez, organizer of the annual 4/20 rally, expressed his opposition to Measure AA, the taxation proposal for recreational marijuana up for vote in November, by staging a Civic Center rally at which attendees were given free joints. The Colorado chapter of NORML (National Organization for the…
This dispensary has closed. Some medical dispensaries (and soon-to-be recreational dispensaries) are just begging for a change in laws. What kind of change? One that would allow people to hang out and puff herb with other patients. So far, nobody has really stepped up to take that on. If it…
Dear Stoner: I found a few seeds in a bag last winter and planted them in my back yard earlier this spring. I know enough to know I lucked out in getting a female plant, but when exactly do I harvest this thing? I can’t find any definitive answers. Green…
The Colorado Department of Revenue has released its set of rules for the soon-to-be recreational marijuana industry. And there are a lot of them. The document is 144 pages long; see it below. Much of the language in the doc is taken from existing medical marijuana rules in Colorado (which…
When the Obama administration announced that it wouldn’t sue to stop Amendment 64 and other state cannabis laws, anticipation about yesterday’s Senate hearing on marijuana shifted from whether the feds could be forced to make a decision to what they’d say about allowing measures to take effect. As such, the…
Jared Polis, Boulder Democrat and pro-hemp congressman, co-hosted a congressional briefing and press conference in Washington, D.C. today to discuss the future of industrial hemp farming and whether further clarification regarding its legality is needed in light of the Obama administration’s recent announcement that it will not sue to stop…
Earlier today, we told you about an anti-pot-taxation rally to be staged at Civic Center Park. Our Alex Brown checked out the event, bringing back the photos below and lots of colorful information about the gathering. Examples? People started lining up for the no-charge tokes at 8:30 a.m., two-and-a-half hours…
Miguel Lopez, organizer of the annual 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park, has obtained a permit to stage what’s described in a press release as a “‘No on Proposition AA’ Campaign” to fight against a proposed state tax on recreational marijuana — one that could be as high as 30…
We aren’t exactly sure who the clandestine growers in this September 2, 1948 story about marijuana growing in a Routt County canyon were, but hippies and mountain towns go together like organic hummus on vegan bread. Like peanut butter and jelly sourced from local farms. Like marijuana and, well, hippies…
Naming a Denver medical marijuana dispensary “Denver Dispensary” probably seemed like a good idea at the time: any random toker searching search for “Denver dispensary” will see their website first and likely click on it. But the generic name has had the opposite effect for me. I hadn’t heard of…
At 10 a.m. today, hours before the NFL season kickoff game between your Denver Broncos and the Baltimore Ravens, Marijuana Policy Project spokesman Mason Tvert will hold a news conference at 1700 North Federal, in Mile High Stadium’s shadow. The occasion? The intro of a new billboard calling for the…
Dear Stoner: I know that smoking marijuana openly isn’t legal anywhere, but what if I’m parked in my RV at a campsite with the windows rolled up and nobody can see me? Would that be legal? Pot Smokey the Bear Dear Bear: I like where your head is at, but…
Boulder City Council members gave initial approval to newly created medical and recreational marijuana rules at last night’s meeting, picking up where they left off months ago after voting to delay rule-making until after statewide regulations had been laid out. According to the draft posted in the council agenda, most…
The Justice Department’s decision not to sue Colorado over Amendment 64 was greeted as good news by its co-author and received mixed but mainly positive reviews from assorted politicians and marijuana advocates. But the prize for the most unusual response goes to Colorado Representative Cory Gardner, who’s written to U.S…
Last week, the U.S. Justice Department finally announced that it would not sue to stop Colorado’s Amendment 64 from going into effect. Afterward, politicians and reformers alike shared their thoughts — but in subsequent days, some of the latter shared misgivings about elements of the feds’ memo regarding ongoing marijuana…
It’s a holiday weekend and you’re (hopefully) already out smoking spliffs and forgetting about the Internet for three days. So we’ll keep today’s Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule brief. This blurb from Castle Rock’s Record-Journal newspaper, dated October 1931, is about a brief encounter with a man who briefly lost his…
Standing Akimbo’s products aren’t new to me at all. We’ve featured SA’s potent, award-winning edibles in numerous articles over the years. But we’ve never actually made it over to the oddball little building the shop calls home, a place just on the edge of Jason Street, overhanging the dip in…
It’s only been a matter of minutes since news broke about the Obama administration announcing that it won’t sue to stop Amendment 64 from going into effect. But we’re already hearing from major players about this huge development, including Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, marijuana advocate…
The Obama administration will not sue to stop Colorado’s Amendment 64, which allows adults 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, and establishes a foundation for retail sales of recreational pot. This long-awaited news was confirmed by the office of Colorado-based U.S. Attorney John Walsh shortly…
