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…
If Colorado dispensaries seem a little empty tomorrow, that’s because anyone who’s anyone in the business will likely be at the University of Denver, where Sensible Colorado, a drug-reform advocacy group, will be holding a stakeholder’s meeting from 1 to 4 p.m. at DU’s Student Forum, 2255 East Evans Avenue,…
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Board of Health has had a rough few months navigating the issue of medical marijuana. In July, the board determined that a caregiver only had to provide a patient with marijuana to earn that label. Then, in November, the board voted to…
The lawsuit against Centennial by CannaMart, a medical marijuana dispensary the city shut down despite granting it a business license a short time earlier, gets its first reading in court today, and Rob Corry and a team of attorneys representing the plaintiffs, including several medical marijuana patients, are clearly feeling…
On Wednesday morning, while the Denver City Council’s safety committee was going over member Charlie Brown’s latest pot proposal, two men tried to rob The Healthy Choice Wellness Center — an incident that led to two elementary schools being locked down as well as loads of media coverage. The heist…
Today, The Wildflower Seed, one of our new medical marijuana reviewers, visits Evolution Medicine Services, a new Boulder dispensary with an old-school vibe. But if that doesn’t light your bowl, you’ll find plenty of alternatives in our newly updated dispensary directory. The most current list can be found by clicking…
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…
Senator Chris Romer, who’s authored proposed legislation to regulate medical marijuana in Colorado, demonstrated his willingness to listen to all stakeholders impacted by the issue by attending this past weekend’s Cannabis Holiday Health Fair, during which he says positive exchanges were mixed with F-bomb attacks. Romer will broaden that approach…
Denver’s attempts to get a handle on the medical marijuana issue, typified by yesterday’s eventful safety committee hearing, show the importance of municipalities establishing clear rules of the road for such operations. A repeat of this lesson may well be in the offing tomorrow in Arapahoe County Court. That’s when…
For a while, it seemed that most of the muttering about medical marijuana dispensaries and crime was based on fear and hysteria. But reports about multiple armed robberies and burglaries, as well as a kidnapping, related to medical marijuana operations in Fort Collins were followed by a videotaped burglary at…
Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown is back before council’s safety committee this morning, presenting his proposed ordinance to regulate the city’s medical marijuana dispensaries. We’re live-blogging the hearing. You’ll find Brown’s proposal at the bottom of this post, with our most recent reports at the top. 11:20 a.m.: The last…
The focus of the medical marijuana story seems to be shifting to lawmakers trying to get a handle on this booming biz, including state senator Chris Romer and Denver councilman Charlie Brown, who’s making a safety committee presentation of his latest proposal at this writing. But Coloradans for Medical Marijuana…
