As Colorado moves forward with implementing Amendment 64, ganjapreneurs are busily trying to figure out ways to cash in on what some are predicting will be a million customers in these parts once the recreational retail system gets rolling. Among the brainstorms: marijuana vending machines. But while Colorado’s sophisticated pot…
Last month’s passage of a THC driving bill, following two failed attempts, was achieved thanks to a language tweak that convinced one-time opponents to sign up. But might they have balked if they’d known about alleged problems at the state lab where the blood testing required by the new law…
The title of a report from the ACLU — “The War on Marijuana in Black and White: Billions of Dollars Wasted on Racially Biased Arrests” — gives a good indication of its contents. The authors argue that the war on pot is a waste of money and African-Americans are disproportionately…
Dixie Elixirs owner and founder Tripp Keber didn’t get to do much hanging out at the Hangout Music Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama two weeks ago, after a security guard kicked off a search that resulted in misdemeanor (and initially felony) drug charges against the Denver businessman. Alabama law prevents…
In digging up old articles on cannabis in Colorado, we’ve come across a few stories that didn’t warrant entire posts of their own. But they add up to something interesting, so we’ve compiled them for this week’s edition of Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule. The first comes from the Camp Hale…
Bringing It Home, a new documentary about industrial hemp inspired by North Carolina eco-conscious home builder Anthony Brenner’s first hemp house, will be screening in Boulder tomorrow night as part of the fourth annual nationwide Hemp History Week. The film “explores the question of why a crop with so many…
Since the early days of Colorado’s marijuana legalization movement, the prospect of Big Tobacco moving into the state and taking over the pot industry has concerned activists. So it was only natural that when RJ Reynolds, among the most powerful of the nation’s tobacco companies, announced that it had chosen…
A few months back, after we checked out Root Organic in Boulder, several readers urged us to go back and visit Boulder Wellness next door. The herb is better quality and worth the drive up from Denver, they said. Whereas Root Organic (on the right) takes the more slick, modern…
In a post published yesterday, Denver City Councilman Chris Nevitt defended a Denver proposal to limit recreational marijuana license applications to previously existing medical marijuana businesses until January 1, 2016. Marijuana attorney Warren Edson is a longtime critic of such an approach, and he’s not thrilled with this one, either…
Last week, attorney David Lane, representing High Times and other publications, sued the state over a new marijuana-law provision that treats pot magazines like porn. Days later, the ACLU filed its own suit against the passage on behalf of newsstands and booksellers such as the Tattered Cover. Both parties were…
Dear Stoner: I know smoking them is a headache waiting to happen, but what should I do with the crystal-covered stems left over from my buds? I hate the idea of throwing away good THC. Scrooge McDank Dear Scrooge: Strangely, you’re not alone in your miserly ways. Up until just…
While Denver City Council members seem to be on track for allowing recreational marijuana stores within city limits, their compatriots in Colorado Springs aren’t nearly as far along. If it were up to Colorado Springs mayor Steve Bach, there wouldn’t be any recreational sales in his city: Bach has been…
Surprise, surprise: Two more non-dispensary-friendly cities across the state have enacted even additional ordinances to ban pot shops. The city councils of both Greeley and Montrose gave affirmative votes Tuesday evening on rules that would deny any future shops from entering their borders. Greeley’s ban actually involves not one but…
On Monday, Denver City Council members held a straw poll to determine if they wanted to continue toward regulations for the recreational marijuana industry made possible by the passage of Amendment 64 — and a 10-1 vote showed the majority did. Also shared was a draft of a proposed local…
Last night, the Aurora City Council gave an affirmative vote toward a moratorium on marijuana shops. This does not come as much of a surprise, as Aurora has never allowed pot businesses within its borders. Still, one council member insists that the vote doesn’t necessarily doom them forever. “We aren’t…
Last week, we told you about a lawsuit filed by several pot publications over a portion of a newly signed law that essentially treats marijuana magazines like porn. Now, this portion of the statute has attracted another suit, which tackles the issue from a different angle. The plaintiffs this time…
“Can You Smell My Sack?” That definitely sounds a little offensive, right? But if you knew the slogan was related to a marijuana sack, would it still bother you? Security and PR at the Colorado Sky Sox stadium last Tuesday definitely thought so and asked those wearing the Weed Pimps…
When Governor John Hickenlooper signed six marijuana bills last week, casual observers may have been tempted to believe the hard work of putting Amendment 64 into effect is over. But no: Now comes the laborious process of creating rules and regulations for the assorted measures by July 1, four weeks…
Marijuana businesses are going to catch a break on state income taxes starting next year thanks to a bill allowing owners to deduct business expenses for the first time. Governor John Hickenlooper signed HB 13-1042 into law earlier this week, legitimizing one of the least controversial measures among the dozen…
This Mile High Gardening Conference, taking place at the downtown Sheraton this weekend, has sessions aplenty about 21st Century growing techniques, with a big focus on aquaponics and a vertical garden installed by the Spanish firm Urbanarbolismo. What’s not on the program? Marijuana — although it was originally supposed to…
Being in a landlocked state, anything here that is beach-themed automatically feels campy and corny. Tiki bars, snow-cone stands, Hawaiian shirts, windsurfing — all of it. So needless to say, the tropical-themed Medicinal Oasis, with its Jimmy Buffet/yacht club decor, was not winning style points with me from the get-go…
After we reported about an element of the main marijuana bill that treated pot magazines like porn, a spokesman for High Times announced an intent to sue if the section wasn’t cut. Shortly thereafter, attorney David Lane said a suit would be forthcoming if the edict became law. Lane wasn’t…
