The Marijuana Policy Project has released its list of the country’s eight worst state legislators — officials who espoused what MPP communications director Mason Tvert calls “outrageous anti-marijuana” policies. Given that Tvert, one of the main proponents of Amendment 64, is based here, it’s not surprise that a Colorado politician…
Earlier this month, the White House announced hardline drug czar Gil Kerlikowske’s nomination as the new U.S. Commissioner of Customs — a move that caused some observers to wonder if the Obama administration was finally laying the groundwork for a more progressive approach to state marijuana laws like those in…
The Denver City Council has been toiling for months on new retail marijuana regulations — and the members’ work is far from over. Today at 3 p.m., the Amendment 64 committee will meet at the City & County Building, Room 391, to discuss retail marijuana licensing ordinance issues, with specific…
Today brings yet another military-related pot article to our Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule archive. This time, it’s from the Aspen Democrat-Times circa December 1916. The tale is about Mexican militia men storming the border with the demon plant and getting our soldiers hooked on drugs. Gasp!…
At 6 p.m. Mountain Time on August 11, CNN will broadcast WEED, a documentary hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Previously a medical marijuana doubter, Gupta has done a 180, as witnessed by his just-published essay “Why I changed my mind on weed” — and in it, he mentions Charlotte Figi,…
It has been more than three years since we were last at Lotus Medical, in the Elephant Corral building on the western edge of downtown Denver. But unlike a lot of shops that have either changed hands or simply changed decor over the past few years, it seems that Lotus…
Dear Stoner: I saw that Uruguay is legalizing marijuana. What is going on down there? When should I start booking my airline tickets and hotel reservations? Tea Traveler Dear Traveler: Uruguay is basically pulling a Colorado, with the legalización of limited amounts of cannabis for adults and regulating sales through…
Gil Kerlikowske has been nominated by the Obama administration to become the new U.S. Commissioner of Customs — meaning that he’ll be giving up his job as the nation’s drug czar. This development will likely lead to an even longer delay in the federal government announcing its approach to marijuana…
Back in May, marijuana attorney Brian Vicente, who co-authored Colorado’s Amendment 64, expressed supreme confidence that state voters would approve taxes on recreational pot sales in the 30 percent range this November. But a lot has changed since then, including dozens of recreational cannabis-sales bans in communities such as Colorado…
This week’s article isn’t so much damning cannabis (or Indian hemp as it’s called in the piece). No, cannabis’ reputation as a sinful vice seems to have been already established at this point. Instead, a doctor loosely links cannabis with alcohol to make the demon of booze seem even worse…
Last year, the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area released a study about the dangers of home marijuana grows shortly before the vote on Amendment 64. Now, as talks about implementing A64 continue, the RMHIDTA is weighing in with a new analysis of weed in Colorado — one that…
People’s Choice Wellness Center has a small waiting room up front with an ATM, but I didn’t get any time to check it out — and it’s not like it matters much anyway. According to my budtender, the shop isn’t going to be sticking around this location much longer. So,…
The Colorado-made hemp flag that flew over the Capitol in Washington on the Fourth of July has made its way back to the Centennial State. And today — which is known as Colorado Day, in commemoration of the day on which the state officially joined the union in 1876 –…
Dear Stoner: How long have people been getting high off of marijuana? Sean in Lakewood Dear Sean: Recorded cultivation of cannabis for fiber goes back as far as 7,000 years in some parts of the world — that much we know. As for how long humans have been getting stoned,…
Think of the Colorado State Fair, and visions of endless funnel cake, mutton bustin’, carnival rides, 70s rock bands playing past their prime, puke-smelling midway rides, horse shows and rodeos come to mind. Starting this year, though, the Cannabis Patients Network would like to add something to that list: medical…
Last year, Brandon Coats, a paralyzed medical marijuana patient fired by DISH for failing a drug test, filed a complaint over the issue in Arapahoe District Court. When he lost there, attorney Michael Evans brought the case to the Colorado Court of Appeals, where jurists also rejected Coats’s argument. But…
Yesterday, members of the Denver City Council met in committee to consider the size of a tax on recreational marijuana sales, with one possibility being 5 percent, and a ceiling of 15 percent. Even the former amount strikes marijuana activist and Amendment 64 co-author Brian Vicente as higher than strictly…
Earlier this year, as part of our continuing coverage about the profiling of Colorado cars in other states due to our marijuana laws, we spoke to an attorney who suggested that Colorado drivers ditch their weed before the Kansas state line because of the latter’s strict policies. Sounds like a…
Before Colorado farmers can plant industrial hemp, the state Department of Agriculture must come up with a way to register and inspect their crops. To help establish those regulations, lawmakers authorized the creation of a nine-member advisory committee. The members of that committee have been chosen, and the group met…
This 1915 article from the Littleton Independent shows that the U.S. government had interest in cannabis as a medicine even as some states around the country had begun to ban it as an illicit drug. Not only were they interested, they were growing it themselves. An excerpt: “A medical drug…
The prospect of recreational marijuana sales has produced a lot of political naysaying in the past month or so. On June 19, we counted 24 cities that had prohibited retail pot shops. Now, five weeks later, the Denver Post reports that the number has more than doubled, to 56 cities…
Not that people weren’t smoking ganja at the parties I went to before, but these days it seems like everyone is pulling out a spliff of something from their new garden or recently discovered dispensary to pass around. (Yes, it is medicine, and, yes, we enjoy it socially: Get over…
