Plenty of Colorado municipalities have chosen to ban marijuana businesses, but few have gone to the extremes of Granby, a gorgeous community in Grand County. Officials have threatened to annex land that’s not officially part of the town to prevent a marijuana shop from opening there — a plan it’s…
Dear Stoner: How long does it take for pot to go to four nanograms in the bloodstream so a person can drive? Does it happen overnight? What if they are smoking at midnight and really stoned? Also, I know I can grow my six plants with three flowering. Can that…
In Colorado, if you’re 21 or older, you’re free to buy, use, grow and give away cannabis. You can even apply for a sales license to grow and sell it for profit. But what you can’t do is take pounds of it across state lines and try to make a…
Eric Prine’s uncontrollable seizures began in late 1992, not long after the six-month-old’s parents, Ronnie and Jennifer, took him to the doctor for routine vaccinations. The near-constant seizures soon left Eric a shell of his former self. “We lost every bit that was him,” says Ronnie. “We never saw any…
When we spoke to Colorado-born, Hawaii-based THC Ministry founder Roger Christie in June 2010, he was readying a challenge to the federal government’s marijuana laws that would have treated dispensaries like churches. But mere weeks later, he was busted by the feds on pot distribution charges and spent the next…
Last week, we noted that marijuana businesses were embracing Black Friday, with The Grass Station leading the charge via $50 ounces for the first sixteen customers on November 26-28. And while the promotion was presumably aimed at local customers, the whole “Green Friday” concept definitely got national exposure. See also:…
If you have an opinion about how cannabis edibles should be labeled and packaged, then you’ve got just a few hours left to share your views with the state. Or you can listen to reggae with like-minded growers, sign up for a glassblowing class and more. See also: Pot-Related Souvenir…
This January 15, 1896 story, “Joy for the Topers” (old-timer slang for drunks), mentions cannabis in passing, but the majority of the piece is on the wonders and joys of eating peyote and mescaline — notable, mostly, because it was written some seventy years before Hunter S. Thompson and his…
Denver International Airport is suffering through one of its busiest weeks of the year as Thanksgiving travelers jam the ticket and security lines, baggage claims and cab stands, and the restaurants and souvenir shops. And while their suitcases may be full of warm sweaters, early holiday presents and leftover pie,…
For being so out in the open, the dispensary is really quite hidden on a small retail stretch of Pearl Street at East Alameda Avenue, anchored by a convenience store across the street that doubles as the cash-only dispensary’s ATM. I’ve probably driven past it 1,000 times in the last…
Dear Stoner: I have a question about medical marijuana, in terms of what the best strains are for seizures. I was diagnosed with cancer a long time ago — brain cancer, in particular — and they gave me anywhere from a week to a few months to live, but here…
For years, financial hassles have forced a multimillion-dollar industry to rely almost entirely on cash and to keep any bank accounts under hush-hush names because fed-fearing financial institutions are wary of doing business with state-legal pot shops. But dispensaries in Colorado are finally seeing a ray of hope, now that…
It’s become a common sight in Colorado — at Broncos games, in movie theaters and malls, in the bathrooms at bars and clubs, even behind high schools and in employee parking lots. People will quickly, slyly grab a device from their pocket that looks like a pen and put it…
Either the cold weather is slowing down business in general, or the recreational boom in cannabis is finally slowing down. There were nine additions to the recreational licensing list last month — and shockingly, not one of those locations was in Aurora. Find out where they all were instead: See…
Earlier today, a new billboard encouraging responsible storage of marijuana edibles was introduced by the Marijuana Policy Project; see more images below. MPP spokesman Mason Tvert stresses that the display is part of an ongoing educational campaign and shouldn’t be interpreted as message to legislators, who’ll be making decisions about…
Remember those never-ending working group meetings surrounding the never-say-die edibles bill? The working group has been unable to reach a consensus, but you still have a chance to offer a public comment…if you do it quickly. Keep reading for details. See also: Marijuana: Pot Sales Down, Patient Numbers Up in…
Willie Nelson says he gives his horses beer, but according to this 1893 article in the Leadville Herald-Democrat, he should be using weed. Yes, the cure for a worn-down horse is good-old THC. See also: “Medical Marijuana Dispensary Review: Five Years Later at Walking Raven in Denver”…
Like most people, I fondly remember losing my virginity — not that things went perfectly the first time out. The experience was stumbly, fumbly and over in less time than it took to write this sentence. But still, somehow in my mind, it was one of the greatest life moments…
Dear Stoner: I know it’s not legal to puff out in front of a restaurant or whatever, but what happens if I get busted smoking weed in public? Is it really that bad?Pete B. Puffin Dear Pete: We don’t think it’s that bad, and we regularly bend the rules ourselves…
Medical marijuana patients paid more than $31.3 million for ganga and ganja-infused product in September, netting the state $908,630 in taxes. Recreational sales were at just over $30.5 million during the same period, which means that MMJ sales outpaced recreational sales that month. In fact, sales of recreational pot dropped…
While limited recreational marijuana sales are legal in Colorado, smoking in public is not — an untenable situation according to cannabis advocates such as NORML’s Allen St. Pierre. The result has been an enormous increase in public-consumption citations, which have reportedly risen in Denver by an astonishing 471 percent from…
There are still places in Colorado without dispensaries, believe it or not — but fewer of them every month. In October, a medical marijuana dispensary license was granted to a store in Tabernash, and several other licenses were allotted in municipalities that have established dispensaries. Here’s a closer look. See…
