It’s been nearly two years since Colorado legalized limited recreational marijuana sales, yet obvious pot spoofs tied to the state continue to go viral. The latest: a satirical claim that a couple of McDonald’s in the state have converted their play areas to cannabis smoking sections. As we’ve reported, the confusion…
Beloved television painter Bob Ross once said, “There’s nothing wrong with having a tree as a friend.” What type of tree he was referring to? Open to interpretation– but Heidi Keyes and her Puff, Pass and Paint Class have an interesting take in this week’s Cannabis Calendar. Clover Leaf University…
Most of the stand-alone pot shops on South Broadway are relics of years gone by, when medical marijuana and stoner shacks went hand in hand. With so many newfangled retail marijuana superstores now showing up in Denver, petite medical dispensaries like Little Brown House and Little Green Pharmacy are becoming…
Join the Cannafit club and you could get high and get fit at the same time. That’s the goal of the soon-to-launch website for Cannafit, which has been called the “Fitbit for Weed,” as it will keep track of your meals as well as the amount of THC you are…
Dear Stoner: Why are all you potheads so gung-ho about the benefits of smoking weed? I smoke it from time to time, but I don’t tell my friends to light up a joint instead of visiting the doctor. It’s pot, not magic beans. Grinding Gary Dear Gary: Magic buds, maybe…
Back in August, we noted that many supporters of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential candidacy wished that he would become more progressive when it comes to marijuana policies. At last night’s Democratic hopefuls debate in Las Vegas, they got their wish. When asked if he would vote to legalize recreational…
Last month, we noted that Representative Diana DeGette had reintroduced he Respect States’ and Citizens’ Rights Act, a bill intended to ensure that federal marijuana statutes don’t supersede cannabis laws enacted in Colorado and numerous other states. In our coverage, we noted that the legislation faces an uphill battle. We wrote:…
The National Cannabis Summit headlines a lengthy list of pot events this week and the tornado of THC events that comes with it will keep you busy throughout. And it’s not just for the business crowd: Hemp farmers, yogis and pot snobs (some of you might be all three) are…
We recently posted about two illegal pot grow busts on federal land on Colorado’s Western Slope. Ten foreign nationals were arrested in the incidents — nine from Mexico, one from Honduras. Last year, as we pointed out, Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area director Tom Gorman warned that Mexican cartels…
I was recovering from a long weekend of pot and football when my friend passed me a one-hitter that tasted like orange soda. I immediately demanded to know what it was and where he’d bought it, and all his stoned mouth could mutter was “Urban Medicinals.” I looked that up…
Dear Stoner: I recently found some edibles I’d forgotten I had — a candy bar that had been opened but was kept in the freezer, and a package of pot-infused mints, never opened. Does time affect potency? Can these spoil? Missing Marn Dear Marn: Treat any marijuana-infused food product as…
Marijuana attorney Rob Corry has filed a class-action lawsuit against the LivWell chain of dispensaries based on its alleged use of a pesticide called Eagle 20 “in the first quarter of 2015 and likely for many months, if not years, earlier.” The substance is described in the suit, seen in…
In 2013, after two failed attempts, Colorado approved a stoned-driving standard of 5 nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood. Critics of the proposal pointed out that there was an almost total lack of scientific evidence to suggest that this limit would be accurate for the vast majority of people, as…
Clover Leaf University and THC Safety are offering some grownup cannabis business courses this week. They’re not intended for the novice and under-qualified — but there’s still a heap of high times for regular folk in this week’s Cannabis Calendar. THC Safety is offering a Marijuana Concentrate Production Technology Course…
The Denver Police Department recently cited seven marijuana shops for selling to persons under age 21. When we shared our report on the topic, we noted that bars, restaurants and other establishments that are found to have sold alcohol to minors get far less media notice than did the dispensaries…
Right now, the biggest controversy in the National Football League — a matter far more important than trivia such as Deflategate — involves concussions. A recent study showed that 87 of 91 former players who donated their brains to science after their death tested positive for CTE, a disease linked to…
It’s hard to drive past a Sweet Leaf location without noticing the pink-and-powder-blue polka-dotted paint job. Although it’s not my favorite look, each loudly colored Sweet Leaf shop attracts potheads like a bug light. So when I noticed a new sore thumb at 4400 East Evans Avenue while stuck in…
Dear Stoner: Which Colorado mountain towns sell recreational marijuana? I’m not saying it’ll dictate where I go skiing this winter, but it would still be nice to know. Erwin Dear Erwin: You don’t have to lie to save face, Erwin. I’m the last person to judge you for planning your…
Yesterday in this space, we noted the contrast between marijuana enforcement across the country, where pot-related arrests take place every 45 seconds by one estimate, versus Colorado, a state that’s seen the rate of busts fall by more than 90 percent since the 2012 passage of Amendment 64, which legalized limited recreational…
Earlier this year, we noted that marijuana charges in Colorado had fallen more than 90 percent since the passage of Amendment 64, the 2012 measure that made it legal to use and possess limited amounts of marijuana for recreational purposes. But the number of busts in other locations has continued at…
In a recent Comment of the Day, we featured a post in which a reader critical of the most recent sky-is-falling anti-marijuana report from the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area responded with wit. Probably hundreds have OD’d on pot, he joked — yet a number of readers took him…
Ever go on a pub crawl or an evening of bar-hopping and wonder to yourself, “Why can’t I do this with weed?” Well, your dreams are coming true — although you might have to wait for the after-party to consume. The Mass Roots Munchie Crawl is comingup, and it’s exactly…
