At noon today, the Colorado Children’s Caucus will make a presentation to the state’s general assembly entitled “How Drugs are Endangering Colorado’s Children;” get details below. As the program’s title implies, the organization, featuring the likes of state senators Kevin Lundberg and Linda Newell, is worried about negative effects associated…
Last week, onetime Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo revealed that he would take a single puff of a marijuana cigarette to settle a bet with a comedian-filmmaker. Once he does, he’ll join a large number of politicians who’ve done likewise — and most of them admit it. Continue to count…
While there are dozens of ways to ingest your cannabis, the most common (and classic) way is to roll yourself a number, light it and burn it down to the end. Unfortunately, some people have yet to master that skill and are still rolling pregnant dolphins. So to help, we’ve…
Update: Yesterday, we shared a video in which ex-Congressman and former gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo promised to smoke marijuana with a comedian trying to finance a documentary about the passage of Amendment 64; see our previous coverage and the clip below. Since then, we’ve heard from Tancredo, who confirms that…
I would love to say there was another reason for my visiting Nature’s Cure III on Colfax, but there just isn’t. The shop isn’t really known for much more than rock-bottom pricing on their buds, and there’s often a line to get in — so I figured I’d finally make…
Dear Stoner: Why does every one of my puff sessions end with a trip to the convenience store for snacks? Fat Doobie Dear Doob: You want to know about the famed “munchies”? Well, allow me to get all Bill Nye on you right quick. Your body naturally produces chemicals called…
Could what is basically a carbon copy of Colorado’s Amendment 64 help make the Aloha State the next one to pass laws legalizing the cultivation, sale and possession of marijuana in small amounts? If Hawaii House Speaker Joseph Souki is successful, it just might…
Most sane, rational people understand that the cannabis plant has medical properties beneficial to patients who suffer from severe pain, chronic nausea and a number of other conditions. And then you’ve got the federal government, which has again refused to accept marijuana’s medicinal properties…
The first meeting of the Denver City Council’s Amendment 64 Committee, held yesterday afternoon, concluded with few answers but a big pile of questions. The most pressing of the latter might also be the most formidable: Can the committee accomplish its goals within a very tight timeline?…
In a post about the first meeting of the Denver City Council’s recreational marijuana committee, chairman Charlie Brown shared anecdotes he’s heard about public pot smoking at ski areas since Amendment 64. But a spokeswoman for Colorado’s ski industry says resorts have had virtually no problems with visitors who don’t…
The first meeting of the Amendment 64 committee of the Denver City Council is scheduled to get underway at 3:30 p.m. today — and while Councilman Charlie Brown, the panel’s chairman, stresses that no votes will take place during the initial session, he expects a disparity of views among the…
Our newish Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule feature spotlights hysterical pot reporting from days gone by — from 1937’s “School Children Buy Drug” to 1968’s “Anti-symbol Hippie Ponders Future in Jail.” Today, in that tradition, we’ve assembled a gallery of anti-marijuana propaganda from the 1930s to the 1970s. Check out the…
This week, Rolling Stone published its list of marijuana legalization’s biggest enemies. And by coincidence, all five of those who made the RS roster have been recently featured in this space. And in the case of the top dog, Kevin Sabet, very recently…
For the third year in a row, High Times is throwing its 4/20 celebration in Colorado, returning to the EXDO Event Center for the annual Medical Cannabis Cup. This year’s event still carries the “medical” tagline on to it (so far), but High Times editor Dan Skye confirms that the…
It wasn’t so much from paranoia as from years of conditioning. Walking into New Broadsterdam, I encountered a full-on police-issue Harley-Davidson with emblems still attached sitting in their front entryway. It almost made me turn around and run out the door and across South Broadway as fast as I could…
Should marijuana pot shops in the state be limited to Colorado residents? This was one controversial debate to emerge this month as the governor’s task force began its work dedicated to implementing Amendment 64. But Mason Tvert, one of the law’s proponents, says there shouldn’t be a debate at all,…
Dear Stoner: I recently moved to the state and was denied the purchase of a firearm by a local dealer. I have no criminal record, and the only possible answer would be that the CBI is cross-checking the registry. Shotgun Willie Dear Willie: With a huge rush on gun sales…
Stop by The Front Tea and Arts weekday mornings and you’ll find a typical small-town Colorado coffee shop, showcasing a wide range of teas and coffees plus the work of local artists. But lately on certain evenings, the smell of roasted beans switches over to the smell from vaporized bowls…
By 9 a.m. today I had received at least three e-mails asking how I felt about my “real identity” as Craig Claiborne being outed in a New York Times opinion piece today by Frank Bruni. Last I checked, though, I’m not a long-dead Times food critic. Or am I? Nudge…
We recently wrote about the debate at the governor’s marijuana task force regarding the licensing of retail pot shots. Sparking some controversy, at least one task force member wants to see a state agency own and operate all commercial establishments. We now have a copy of a letter from Boulder…
Beauty pageants have discovered that one surefire way of getting publicity is to have a judge ask a contestant about marijuana — and then wait for her to say something dopey, as it were. In December, Miss Universe talked pot in an amusing way that made headlines. And now, Miss…
Spotted this weekend at around Colorado Boulevard and 50th: a billboard boldly declaring, “Police roll doobie.” Do they? The sign doesn’t exactly constitute definitive proof, no matter how large the letters. But those who see the message may have a different reaction next time they’re watching a cop show and…
