The Colorado Medical Marijuana Patient Registry continued its slow but steady climb in March according to statistics released by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. As of March 31, there were 115,208 active red cards in the state — up 1,767 people from the month before…
For well over a year, we’ve shared claims of pot profiling from drivers who say they were pulled over on bogus pretenses in other states simply because their vehicle had Colorado license plates and local cops wanted an excuse to search it for marijuana. Note the story of a 65-year-old…
For at least a year, polls have shown that a majority of Americans support marijuana legalization. Yet there remains an enormous disparity between the way cannabis is treated in Colorado and Washington, the two states that have legalized recreational weed sales in limited amounts, and the approach taken by the…
We’ve been reporting about a Marijuana Enforcement Division working group looking into placing THC limits on pot edibles. At the group’s last meeting, the MED proposed packaging that would require individual serving sizes featuring 10 milligrams of activated THC to be wrapped separately when sold as part of a 100…
Aspen might be a small town, but the battle for news readership has always been a fierce one — though the insults have probably toned down (in print, at least) since 1897, when this screed from the editors of the Aspen Tribune ran bashing the editors and, more directly, the…
Dear Stoner: I’m flying from one Colorado city to another. Is it legal to carry marijuana on me?Durango Unchained Dear Durango: We’re not saying you can — and we’re not saying you can’t. We’ve written in the past about how the Transportation Security Administration doesn’t really have any law-enforcement capabilities…
State medical-marijuana testing labs licensed by the Marijuana Enforcement Division can no longer accept and test private samples dropped off by patients and caregivers. Legally, they’re only allowed to test marijuana from state-licensed marijuana facilities. Officials say the move keeps the state out of the federal government’s cross-hairs by maintaining…
After a week of what seems like endless Reefer Madness stories from the Denver television stations, we thought we’d leave you with some vintage pot hysteria from 1911. Yes, in case reports of wild Mexicans wasn’t enough to scare the hell out of white America, the thought of it killing…
Last month’s Spice bust in Loveland, in which a business owner and two employees were arrested for peddling a substance colloquially known as synthetic marijuana (even though it has little in common with cannabis), got plenty of attention. But the operation pales in comparison to a nationwide series of raids…
It’s been years since I was last in La Conte’s. Back in 2011, it was one of the few shops offering buds below $40 an eighth, with hash oil selling at $30 a gram. It wasn’t the best bud, but the value was good, and overall the shop got a…
Dear Stoner: Last week you talked about vaporizers and vape pens. What kind do you recommend?Eager Edgar Dear Edgar: It really depends on whether you want a desktop vaporizer or a portable vaporizer, and how much dinero you’re willing to drop. Vapes are like tattoos — good ones aren’t cheap,…
Medical marijuana patients whose physicians have recommended increased plant counts beyond the legally allotted six are on their own in court, since state officials said last week that they will no longer defend the practice…
Update: Both House Bill 1361, which limits hash sales, and House Bill 1366, which further regulates edibles sales, were approved by the state Senate on third reading yesterday and now head to the governor’s desk for signing. For more on what the bills will do, see our previous coverage below…
Last week, a bill intended to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of approved conditions for treatment by medical marijuana failed in the Colorado legislature– a decision one advocate called “shameful.” Roger Martin agrees. He’s the executive director of Operation Grow4Vets, a new project intended to provide cannabis for…
Update below: The two-month period during which Colorado farmers could register to grow hemp for the 2014 growing season closed on May 1. As of 4:30 p.m. that day, state records show that 42 people or businesses were approved to grow hemp and another 53 had applied but were not…
Last week, Hector Diaz was formally charged by federal prosecutors with using more than $500,000 in Colombian cash to invest in the Colorado marijuana industry. Others indicted along with Diaz insist that none of the targeted transactions had any connection with foreign drug gangs. But a longtime investigator says he’s…
Here’s an article that actually ran in several papers over the years, though we’ve singled out the version from the September 1890 Aspen Daily Times. Basically, it’s a “correspondence” with an unnamed doctor who lists ten dangerous drugs and the fates that befall the users of each. The drugs, in…
Earlier this month, Senator Linda Newell, sponsor of two controversial bills intended to clarify the definition of a drug-endangered child, refuted claims that the measures could criminalize any parent who legally smoked marijuana. Nonetheless, the measures failed this week after a tricky political maneuver. They actually passed before a reversal…
In the year or so since photos of what looks to be a clean, well-lit and well-stocked Flavored Essentials were posted on the dispensary’s Facebook page, the shop doesn’t appear to have done much upkeep. Lights were out all over the place, and the only illumination came from the few…
The Colorado Department of Revenue’s Marijuana Enforcement Division held a session on product potency yesterday at Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora, where a working group discussed how to make sure that marijuana edible serving sizes are safe for consumers. Much of the talk focused on packaging, and how to make…
Earlier this week, an effort to add post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of conditions legally treatable by medical marijuana in Colorado failed — a development cannabis advocate Brian Vicente described as “shameful.” Veteran Sean Azzariti offered emotional testimony in favor of the bill and admits to being frustrated that…
Dear Stoner: If the three flowering plants (and the three soon-to-be flowering plants) I have growing as a legal red-card holder yield a very conservative ounce per, in a few months I’ll have three to six oh-zees, and the legal limit is two ounces. How do you handle a stock…
