“For the first time in years, people in Denver are abusing marijuana more than any other drug,” trumpeted a January 8 Channel 9 investigative story on citywide drug stats. That’s quite the announcement. Too bad the story itself is filled with more useless junk than a baggie of ditch weed…
Now that Denver City Council has approved a set of medical marijuana rules, the next major deliberative body in Colorado to take on the topic will be the state legislature. But there’s no clear map for the legislature to follow, what with Senator Chris Romer scrapping most of his heavily…
On Friday, we shared with you a letter by attorney Rob Corry shredding Senator Chris Romer’s latest draft of a measure to regulate the medical marijuana industry. Shortly thereafter, Romer backed away from the bill even as he argued that medical marijuana advocates may soon face greater restrictions because of…
After Senator Chris Romer announced that he would be withdrawing most of a proposed bill aimed at regulating the medical marijuana industry, the Cannabis Therapy Institute, a prominent pro-marijuana organization, called his decision a “guarded victory” in a press release on view at the bottom of this item. And CTI…
Senator Chris Romer has been working on medical marijuana legislation for many weeks — and he’s clearly grown frustrated with the chore. On Saturday, he published an essay in the Huffington Post declaring that “my attempts to bring medical marijuana out of the shadows through a complex regulatory structure are…
Attorney Rob Corry has become the poster-lawyer for the medical marijuana business in Colorado, both through his legal gambits — like victory in a dispute over the Colorado Board of Health’s language switch involving the definition of a medical marijuana caregiver — to his primary role in the Colorado Wellness…
Last August, Diego Alvarez was arrested in Avon on charges of felony cultivation of marijuana and felony possession of more than eight ounces of marijuana in a bust that made news throughout the state. Now, however, the case has come to a screeching halt. In a pre-trial hearing in Eagle…
The pot proposal pushed by Denver city councilman Charlie Brown is up for public comment on Monday — and the Cannabis Therapy Institute, among the most efficient and effective marijuana advocacy organizations in the state, wants to make sure folks who agree with its views show up in droves. CTI…
On Monday, we updated you on the story of Plants 4 Life, a Castle Rock medical marijuana dispensary that had received a business license from the town only to be prevented from selling its main product because weed is illegal under federal law. At the time, Lauren Davis, Plants 4…
Today brings our first medical marijuana dispensary review of the year: Metro Cannabis Inc., as critiqued by William Breathes. But that’s hardly the only information about businesses like this one available to you from Westword. Look for plenty of alternatives in our newly updated dispensary directory, accessible by clicking here…
This dispensary has closed. As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred…
Forget the Mile High City. Denver’s has a new name, according to media reports: “Cannabis Capital USA.” The title comes courtesy of the fact that the city’s been inundated with sales tax license applications for dispensaries as entrepreneurs try to get in under the wire before Denver institutes new industry-wide…
Blackberries and beets are on the list. So are horseradish, hops and horehound. Even wasabi, wormwood and watermelon are eligible to receive money under the Colorado Department of Agriculture’s Specialty Crops Block Grant Program. Marijuana? Sorry, says agriculture department spokeswoman Christi Lightcap. “It would not fall under this specialty crops…
At last night’s Denver city council meeting, the member who seemed to have the most problems with a pot proposal that will get the public-hearing treatment next Monday was Carol Boigon. At one point, Boigon suggested that the council was moving too fast, as Patricia Calhoun reported this morning. In…
On January 9 and 10, the weekend before the Denver City Council is slated to vote on a new medical marijuana proposal, Los Angeles-based Greenway University, described by CEO and founder Gus Escamilla as a “medical marijuana training and education institute,” is slated to stage a two-day seminar at the…
A decision last week preventing the City of Centennial from outlawing medical marijuana dispensaries inside town limits was good news for more operations than just CannaMart, the business that brought suit against the community in the first place. It also bodes well in the matter of Plants 4 Life, a…
We’re back with our week-daily roundup of Denver bloggery. Did you miss us? The Colorado Independent’s David O. Williams speculates that 9th Judicial District Attorney Martin Beeson was too busy with high-profile cases involving the likes of actor Charlie Sheen to challenge John Salazar in the 3rd Congressional District. It’d…
It’ll be a happy new year for dispensary owners since Arapahoe County District Court Judge Christopher Cross ruled today that the city of Centennial has to back off from its recent dispensary ban. The decision came as part of a lawsuit filled on behalf of CannaMart, a Centennial dispensary that…
This dispensary has closed. As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred…
I was talking last night with a friend in public relations who told me that many PR firms around town are still reluctant to work with medical-marijuana clients. If that’s the case, it’s a shame — since Colorado’s dispensary scene is a marketer’s dream. There are already lawyers, realtors and…
As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred look at what goes…
One of the biggest stumbling blocks with the local medical marijuana industry is the lack of quality control. Other than taking a dispensary worker’s word for it, it’s impossible to know just how powerful is that sample of OG Kush is — or, for that matter, if it really is…
