Update:A Denver District Court judge will hear a lawsuit filed by Amendment 64 backers over Blue Book language. The hearing takes place at 1:30 p.m. today in Courtroom 215 of the Denver City-County Building. Continue for more suit details. Original post, 9:44 a.m. September 10: On Thursday, Amendment 64’s Brian…
Want a job working in the MMJ industry in Colorado? Well, get comfortable, because it might be a while before you can even start. In yet another sign of the struggles afflicting the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, the department is now informing potential new employees that there are no appointments…
Last week, while examining the claim that passage of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, would eliminate 12,000 Colorado pot arrests per year, we spoke with attorney Warren Edson, who said some communities set a maximum $1,000 fine and a year in jail for petty possession. A police…
For years, Colorado Alternative Medicine has been known as the place to pick up some of the state’s best-grown meds. By December 2010, when I first visited the tiny South Broadway duplex, even growers were known to shop there between harvests. And based on my latest visit, little has changed…
Yesterday, members of the Legislative Council Committee asked for changes in the Blue Book description of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, suggesting along the way that the initiative is likely to spur lawsuits. Opponents pounced on these assertions and others, but a 64 backer thinks the impact…
On Tuesday in this space, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition’s Tom Angell accused the Obama campaign of using stoner stereotypes in a video featuring Harold and Kumar actors Kal Penn and John Cho despite the president’s broken promises on pot policy. Now, Angell is sharing a clip in which Obama footage…
The number of active patients on the Colorado medical marijuana registry rose from May to June, finishing just shy of 100,000 patients. But new data released by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment this week shows that while the number of active patients continues to grow, more people…
If you’re watching the Democratic National Convention on either MSNBC or CNN, there’s a good chance you’ll catch of glimpse of Richard Nixon. Why? He’s featured in a new ad for Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act — and like the campaign’s first commercial, released in May, it…
Update below: Kal Penn and John Cho, the stars of the Harold and Kumar movies, have been to Colorado multiple times in recent weeks to stump for the Obama campaign, and both appear with the president in a video about Penn hosting Democratic National Convention coverage this week; see it…
Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games to books. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? Vapor Kryptonite personal vaporizer/e-cig…
In our recent post about cannabis community division over Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, Mason Tvert, among the measure’s main proponents, said passage of the initiative would prevent as many as 12,000 pot-related arrests per year. Is this estimate reasonable? A report on view below implies that…
Robert White, Denver’s police chief, knew a lot about Denver and Colorado before he came here, but there’s one thing that really shocked him: marijuana. That’s right! White, who left his post as police chief in Louisville, Kentucky in October, had no idea that moving to Denver meant he would…
This dispensary has closed. The entrance is borderline speakeasy-esque: A gray door is tucked in the space between Washington Park Grille on one side and a breakfast eatery/ice-cream bar on the other. It looks more like kitchen access for either restaurant than a dispensary entrance. Only a few unassuming signs…
Update below: Think everyone in the marijuana community is behind Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act? Think again. The measure has pitted advocates against advocates, frequently in online combat of the sort that recently turned the Coloradans 4 Cannabis Patient Rights Facebook group into a combat zone…
For the last eight months or so, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado has been shutting down medical marijuana storefronts within 1,000 feet of schools by simply sending the dispensaries a letter and giving them 45 days to vacate or face possible seizure of their property and assets. The tactic…
As Barack Obama was visiting CSU, where he was greeted by 13,000 supporters and an attack sign with a typo, the folks behind Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, released a letter with an academic flavor. It features the signatures of 100-plus professors who back the measure, including…
Even before Weeds satirized Colorado’s medical marijuana scene in 2010, the local MMJ industry has had a love-hate relationship with the Showtime program, whose run ends this season. However, last night’s episode, spotlighted in a clip below, is likely to inspire only the latter reaction among folks in the biz…
Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games to books. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? Super Charged: How Outlaws, Hippies and Scientists Reinvented Marijuana…
This dispensary has closed. After weeks of waiting and building social-media buzz, the Golden Goat has finally reopened in the space formerly occupied by Green Door Wellness — which always looked like a nest of old Deadheads had taken over an abandoned East Colfax building near a grow store and…
At 10:30 a.m. today, the NAACP’s Colorado/Montana/Wyoming conference will formally endorse Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act. Rosemary Harris Lytle, communications director for the local branch, who’s among the speakers at the event, taking place in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood, says the NAACP sees the measure as a…
The Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division of the Department of Revenue is strapped for cash, and the bare-bones staff is just barely keeping up with the task the division was given in July 2010: to license dispensaries in the state…
Update:A Colorado Center on Law and Policy study predicting the economic impact of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, has become a political football for proponents and opponents. Now, CCLP reps are defending the methodology of the report, whose totals differ from those of state officials…
