Shocker: The Partnership at Drugfree.org conducted a study on teen marijuana use, and the results are not positive. Equally big shocker: Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, who never misses an opportunity to criticize medical marijuana, is using the report to climb on the anti-cannabis soapbox again…
Yesterday afternoon, the Colorado Senate approved Senator Steve King’s THC driving bill by an 18-17 vote thanks to the support of Senator Nancy Spence, who’d recommended additional study for a similar measure that fell short of passage last year. Now, the proposal is headed to the Colorado House, and NORML,…
Even as Senator Steve King’s proposed THC DUI bill is being debated this afternoonpassed through to the state House, two other state legislators are making one last push for their separate marijuana-related proposals with a little more than a week left before Colorado’s General Assembly adjourns. The subjects: funding the…
Senator Steve King’s proposed THC driving bill is headed to the state senate floor, probably tomorrow. To clear its path, language that would have established a zero tolerance policy for all Schedule I and II drugs was stripped out Friday. As such, the proposal is very similar to one shelved…
Last Saturday at the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup, I sat in on panel of experts discussing the pros and cons of smoking concentrates extracted by using solvents such as butane and isopropyl alcohol. Little did I realize that only days later, I would experience the risks that come from…
Last Friday, the Cannabis Alliance for Regulation and Education began collecting signatures for Initiative 70, the third legalization measure to be proposed for the November elections. We caught up with spokesman Rico Colibri, who broke down his proposal and why he feels it is Colorado’s best option for ending cannabis…
This dispensary has closed. I tried with 420 Wellness. I really did. I had heard good things about some of the shop’s strains — and one of them took second place at the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup last weekend. But in the end, my experience with the shop went…
The Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division is in dire financial straits. However, Representative Beth McCann of Denver says she has a plan for medical marijuana patients to bail out the MMED using leftover money they paid to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment…
Could as many as 175,000 Colorado citizens lose their jobs based on a single court case? That’s the contention of attorney Michael Evans, who believes every state-legal medical marijuana patient would be at risk of dismissal depending on the outcome of an appeal involving Brandon Coats, a paralyzed man and…
Around 190 patients caught up in the physician assistant debacle last winter have appealed the decision by the Colorado Department of Health and Environment to deny their medical marijuana registry application. But they haven’t been going well from the patients’ perspective…
On Valentine’s Day, all Fort Collins dispensaries closed as the result of a retail ban passed the previous November. But MMJ patients and industry types aren’t meekly accepting this verdict. Following on unsuccessful court challenge, they’ve banded together to collect signatures for a new proposal to make MMCs legal again…
Tiny Dacono is poised to become the next municipality to ban medical marijuana centers after council members met to discuss the issue in a work group Monday evening. According to the Longmont Times-Call, a majority of the council members, including Mayor Charles Sigman, favored banning the three centers within their…
At 2 p.m., hours before President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak at CU-Boulder, members of Colorado’s medical marijuana industry will stage a press conference at which they’ll ask the commander in chief to order call off federal law-enforcers such as U.S. Attorney John Walsh, whose seizure-threat letters to dispensaries…
While CU-Boulder prepares for President Barack Obama’s visit this evening, memories of the reduced but still passionate 4/20 event there continue to linger like a certain kind of smoke. Below, check out three videos shot by Westword’s Britt Chester — clips of Wyclef Jean’s brother, Samuel (seen here), exhorting the…
Denver’s annual 4/20 festivities drew thousands, as is clear from our 4/20 at Civic Center Park photo gallery and marijuana critic William Breathes’s account. But the first-ever second day of the bash attracted only a relative handful of tokers to Civic Center. Was a sequel too much even for hardcore…
Within a half hour of the 2012 High Times Denver Medical Cannabis Cup opening on Saturday, the line was already snaking down Walnut Street, around the corner, then halfway up 36th. Not surprisingly, the smell of ganja had wafted even further. This is the second time in as many years…
You’ve read pot critic William Breathes’s take on 4/20 in Civic Center Park this past Friday. Now see photos from the scene there — cops, advocates, MMJ patients and those just looking for a free toke. Check out the full slide show with many more photos here: “4/20 in Denver”…
See Also: Wyclef Jean contract with CU confirms $80K fee, plus a look at the performance rider (Photos) Free Wyclef Jean 420 show at CU in Boulder draws unbelievably paltry crowd There’s a silence that falls over the crowd somewhere between 4:19 p.m. and 4:21 p.m. It’s not in memorial…
The Denver Fire Department is still investigating a suspicious fire at a Green Door Wellness medical marijuana dispensary at 155 Federal earlier this week. But that’s about all the information that we’ve been able to get out of anyone involved with the case after days of asking for more details…
Irony alert: Foul-smelling fish fertilizer of the sort CU-Boulder applied this morning to Norlin Quad, which has been closed as part of a plan to shrink the annual 4/20 event on campus, is a favorite of marijuana growers. Great minds think alike…
It’s Friday, April 20, and though you may or may not have a job, we’re going to get you high today. Okay, maybe not. But we are going to tell you where people in Denver will be celebrating getting high, medicated and everything in between. Below, we’ve compiled a list…
Update: After a four hour hearing, Boulder District Judge Andrew McDonald reportedly denied attorney Rob Corry’s request for an injunction to prevent CU-Boulder from closing its campus to visitors as a way of undermining the annual 4/20 event. As such, the CU Police plan outlined by spokesman Ryan Huff in…
