The Colorado Court of Appeals ruling in the Stacey Clendenin case, which stated that medical-marijuana caregivers must do more than simply supply the product in question, led the state’s board of health to strike its caregiver definition — a move that’s caused confusion and panic among medical-marijuana purveyors. Into this…
Denver councilman Charlie Brown plans to share his ideas for proposed medical-marijuana regulations on November 18 — and his already-expressed interest in taxing the stuff has been endorsed by fellow councilman Chris Nevitt. “Both of us strongly believe it should be taxed — and I think that position is almost…
Sean McAllister experienced a big up and an equally large down yesterday. As the head of Sensible Breckenridge, a marijuana advocacy organization, he was thrilled when residents of the ski town voted overwhelmingly to decriminalize pot in their community. But in his role as board chairman for the statewide group…
State medical-marijuana rules have always been ridiculously vague and confusing, leading to the riotous growth of the local dispensary industry. Last week, the Colorado Court of Appeals weighed in on the matter, and this morning the Colorado Board of Health chimed in, too. Now, lo and behold, state medical-marijuana rules…
Update, 3:23 p.m. Joel Warner here, back from the kerfuffle emergency Board of Health hearing. To make a long story short, the board voted 9-0 this morning to strike language stating that a marijuana caregiver has to have “significant responsibility for managing the well-being of a patient.” This summer, the…
Although the state of Colorado is currently grappling with medical marijuana, as exemplified by the Colorado Board of Health’s “Emergency Rulemaking Hearing” slated for later this morning (expect Sensible Colorado supporters to show up in force), local governments are on the front lines of the issue. And a new report…
As Patricia Calhoun points out in this morning’s Wake-Up Call, the Colorado Board of Health is holding an “Emergency Rulemaking Hearing” at 10:30 a.m. this morning; it takes place in Building A at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment headquarters, 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South. The spur: A…
SAFER’s Mason Tvert thinks drug czar Gil Kerlikowske has some splainin’ to do.The Obama administration’s relaxed rules regarding enforcement of laws regarding medical marijuana has led to renewed optimism among weed advocates that across-the-boards legalization might be a more realistic possibility. But shortly thereafter, Office of National Drug Control Policy…
Again this week, we’ve updated our directory of medical-marijuana dispensaries in Colorado, featuring a new, user-friendlier format. To check it out, click 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…
In September, Joel Warner wrote a blog entitled “Could Clendenin Case Deal a Blow to Colorado’s Pot Biz?” Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, who’s been trying to put the medical-marijuana genie back in the bottle, certainly hopes so. No wonder he’s high on a ruling just handed down by the…
While the rest of the state bickers about medical marijuana, and what kind of limitations should or shouldn’t be placed upon it (read Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper’s take here), Breckenridge is considering decriminalizing ganja for those without health issues, too, via 2F, a measure earmarked for the Breck ballot this…
The explosive growth of Colorado’s marijuana dispensary scene is sooo September 2009. The next big thing, it turns out, is marijuana institutes — organizations designed to help folks makes heads or tails of the heady medical marijuana scene. The development is a no-brainer. The state’s medical marijuana law is so…
With the Justice Department’s announcement last week that it won’t be prosecuting medical marijuana cases in states where the practice is legal, the feds loudly and officially passed the buck on the subject. That leaves it up to medical-marijuana states and their municipalities to determine just how to handle all…
Again this week, we’ve updated our directory of medical-marijuana dispensaries in Colorado, featuring a new, user-friendlier format. To check it out, click 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…
View Larger MapWith Colorado Attorney General John Suthers equating the proliferation of medical-marijuana facilities with crime, and other law-enforcers publicly suggesting that dispensaries are selling pot obtained from Mexican drug cartels, the pro-weed crowd has feared a crackdown on growing operations — and a raid earlier this week at 2206…
Where’s it all coming from? That’s the big question about Colorado’s booming medical-marijuana scene. With all these new dispensaries opening up, people want to know where, exactly, the product for sale originated. According to drug-enforcement officials quoted today in the Denver Post,, some of it may be coming from international…
Our daily homage to local bloggage. Focus on the Family is spreading its hate in Maine. 5280’s on the case. Rep. Jared Polis is speaking out against the what he calls a “sweep of terror” being done on illegal immigrants, Colorado Independent reports. At HuffPo Denver, Erin Rosa says the…
Opponents of medical-marijuana laws like Colorado Attorney General John Suthers are increasingly playing the crime card — implying that the proliferation of dispensaries in Colorado is fueling illegal and increasingly dangerous behavior (without, of course, providing specific examples of the phenomenon). Today’s Denver Post adds a chorus to this tune…
The amount of coverage generated by our quest for a medical-marijuana dispensary reviewer has proven conclusively that national media outlets such as the New York Times to National Public Radio have a heretofore unimagined ganja obsession. Less surprising is the latest publication to weigh in: Rolling Stone, which is now…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers wants to put the medical-marijuana genie back in the bottle — so it’s hardly surprising that he’s not thrilled by the Obama administration’s efforts to put enforcement of rules pertaining to dispensaries in the hands of states. Shortly after the new guidelines were released, Suthers…
