Westword has a team of writers and photographers around Colorado today covering the start of legalized cannabis sales to adults 21 and up. Though the rest of the Westword blogs are sleeping today, we’ll be updating The Latest Word through the day with dispatches from the field. Read on for…
Cannabition’s public pot-smoking party at NORAD may be dead in the water, but the event’s organizers will still be celebrating the beginning of retail marijuana sales tomorrow with a bus tour of Denver pot highlights, including a behind-the-scenes peek at a retail dispensary and a grow site. Now, we’re giving…
Denver International Airport banned marijuana possession on airport property this week in a move that officials say will help prevent legal pot from flying illegally out of state. That includes the parking lots. So if lighting up a huge bowl of kush in the West Garage before getting on a…
Vail.Along with Colorado’s new marijuana laws legalizing limited amounts of herb for adults 21 and up came liberalization in the conversation around the state. People aren’t afraid to talk about marijuana in public anymore, largely because it’s not illegal to do so. In fact, it’s not uncommon now to hear…
Cannabition, a January 1 blowout, has been canceled thanks to a not-so-vague memo the promoters received from the City of Denver on Friday afternoon, warning that not only business owners could be punished if the bash were held, but any person in attendance caught lighting up could (and probably would)…
Since the 2009 “green rush” boom of medical dispensaries, Denver pot smokers have enjoyed a steady decline in the price of their cannabis in both the medical and black-market economies, dropping from $50 or $60 an eighth to as low as $25. With the heavily regulated industry of legal recreational…
When I first moved to Denver in 2004, I had a very difficult time locating pot. I spent a lot of time at galleries, concert venues and taverns like Gabors and Bar Bar, asking everyone I met where I could find “some grass” (as an ignorant farm boy, I still…
Think the U.S. enforcing our drug laws abroad is a relatively new thing? Think again. According to this gem we dug up from the February 2, 1923 Akron Weekly Pioneer Press, we’ve been meddling in other countries’ drug affairs for more than ninety years…
While Cannabition organizers J.J. Walker and Matt Brown had originally planned to host their New Year’s Day event at City Hall — no, not the City and County Building, but the Regas Christou-owned venue on Broadway — they had to move it to NORAD, at 821 22nd Street, after Christou…
‘Twas the day before the day before Christmas, and all through my place, not a bowl pack could be found to puff to my face. All the bubblers and bongs had been cleaned up with care, in hopes that I could find something skunky to put in the air. I…
It was one of the most sadly ironic events of the year: On Labor Day weekend — when the heat was on to catch drunk drivers — cannabis activist Jenny Kush was killed by one of those drink drivers, as related in our September cover story, “The life and tragic…
Dear Stoner: Is it easier to get high at high altitude, as it is to get drunk? Tipsy McSpliff Dear Tipsy: Brace yourself, because you might not like the answer. The altitude/alcohol connection is actually a myth. In fact, your tax dollars went to a Federal Aviation Administration study on…
As January 1 draws closer, the biggest question in Colorado has been: What will be the first shops legally allowed to sell recreational cannabis to adults 21 and over? Now we know…sort of. Yesterday, the State of Colorado became the first state to license recreational marijuana dispensaries when the Department…
Amendment 64 legalized the possession and use of limited amounts of pot for adults 21 and over, but it didn’t legalize public consumption of cannabis on streets, sidewalks, parks or any other public place, for that matter. But apparently that message didn’t quite reach Denver and Boulder residents, as public…
This week’s medical marijuana dispensary review took us to Trenchtown, named for the famed Jamaican ghetto where Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and many other amazing musician to ever come from that country were born and raised. Most of us have the ganja-toking image of Jamaica thanks to them, actually. But…
One good thing about herb is that when it hits you, you feel no pain. Unless, of course, you’re smoking some pretty poorly grown weed — in which case you may get a scratchy throat or headache. If that has been the case for you lately, maybe rockin’ over to…
Numerous members of the marijuana industry see the City of Denver as putting up obstacles to shops wanting to be open for the January 1 kickoff of recreational pot sales — a claim officials vigorously deny. But there’s one local organization that appears to be doing all it can to…
With marijuana now legal in Colorado (if you’re 21 and above and the amount is an ounce or less), odds are good that you’ve got a stoner on your holiday gift list. Or maybe two stoners. Or possibly ten. Wondering what to get them this year? We’re here to help,…
Dear Stoner: The recent issue about whether people can smoke in public view, like on personal patios or balconies, has me a little confused and irritated. Non-smokers say smoking pot in public view is dangerous to families and might influence children the “wrong way,” but I feel that cigarettes are…
As you know, real marijuana is now legal for 21-and-over adults in Colorado, at least in small amounts. But smokable “synthetic marijuana” remains illegal — and a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows why. In August, use of synthetic marijuana was linked to 221 Colorado…
Last night, Denver City Councilman Albus Brooks succeeded in getting a majority of his colleagues to support a bill decriminalizing possession of one ounce or less of marijuana for those under age 21. Brooks stresses that the measure shouldn’t be interpreted as a sanction for young people to smoke weed…
The inability of marijuana businesses to legally use banking services has been a problem in Colorado for years. But with recreational sales slated to start on January 1, the issue takes on even greater urgency — hence, the noteworthiness of a closed-door meeting last week in Washington, D.C., involving a…
