Surprise, surprise: Two more non-dispensary-friendly cities across the state have enacted even additional ordinances to ban pot shops. The city councils of both Greeley and Montrose gave affirmative votes Tuesday evening on rules that would deny any future shops from entering their borders. Greeley’s ban actually involves not one but…
On Monday, Denver City Council members held a straw poll to determine if they wanted to continue toward regulations for the recreational marijuana industry made possible by the passage of Amendment 64 — and a 10-1 vote showed the majority did. Also shared was a draft of a proposed local…
Last night, the Aurora City Council gave an affirmative vote toward a moratorium on marijuana shops. This does not come as much of a surprise, as Aurora has never allowed pot businesses within its borders. Still, one council member insists that the vote doesn’t necessarily doom them forever. “We aren’t…
Last week, we told you about a lawsuit filed by several pot publications over a portion of a newly signed law that essentially treats marijuana magazines like porn. Now, this portion of the statute has attracted another suit, which tackles the issue from a different angle. The plaintiffs this time…
“Can You Smell My Sack?” That definitely sounds a little offensive, right? But if you knew the slogan was related to a marijuana sack, would it still bother you? Security and PR at the Colorado Sky Sox stadium last Tuesday definitely thought so and asked those wearing the Weed Pimps…
When Governor John Hickenlooper signed six marijuana bills last week, casual observers may have been tempted to believe the hard work of putting Amendment 64 into effect is over. But no: Now comes the laborious process of creating rules and regulations for the assorted measures by July 1, four weeks…
Marijuana businesses are going to catch a break on state income taxes starting next year thanks to a bill allowing owners to deduct business expenses for the first time. Governor John Hickenlooper signed HB 13-1042 into law earlier this week, legitimizing one of the least controversial measures among the dozen…
This Mile High Gardening Conference, taking place at the downtown Sheraton this weekend, has sessions aplenty about 21st Century growing techniques, with a big focus on aquaponics and a vertical garden installed by the Spanish firm Urbanarbolismo. What’s not on the program? Marijuana — although it was originally supposed to…
Being in a landlocked state, anything here that is beach-themed automatically feels campy and corny. Tiki bars, snow-cone stands, Hawaiian shirts, windsurfing — all of it. So needless to say, the tropical-themed Medicinal Oasis, with its Jimmy Buffet/yacht club decor, was not winning style points with me from the get-go…
After we reported about an element of the main marijuana bill that treated pot magazines like porn, a spokesman for High Times announced an intent to sue if the section wasn’t cut. Shortly thereafter, attorney David Lane said a suit would be forthcoming if the edict became law. Lane wasn’t…
Dear Stoner: I enjoy smoking herb at concerts, but I’m a germophobe and hate sharing bowls with strangers nearby who ask for a hit. Is it totally un-stoner to puff and not pass? Rolling Stoned Dear RS: While classic stoner etiquette would tell you otherwise, I think it’s totally fine…
Despite nearly 10,000 new-patient applications in the first quarter of 2013, the number of active medical marijuana patients in Colorado hasn’t changed much since January 1. Between December 31 and the end of March, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the MMJ registry received 9,557 new…
Earlier today, Governor John Hickenlooper made his mark on six marijuana bills, pushing retail sale of recreational pot closer to becoming a reality and putting at least a temporary end to quandaries that occupied the legislature throughout much of the just-concluded session. “Clearly, we are charting new territory,” Hickenlooper said…
Pot edibles are a burgeoning business in Colorado, and with the signing of marijuana-related legislation later this morning, that growth is expected to continue. But according to a Colorado-centric study just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics, something else is rising, too — the number of…
This week we’re traveling back to July of 1893, just as cannabis started to become demonized in the media. This article from the Colorado Transcript in Golden, is based on a British report on hash regulations in Egypt, Greece and Turkey. The story talks about the “general ignorance which prevails…
It’s been almost three years since I checked out Pure’s original location, on Bannock just south of the Denver Art Museum. Since then, the shop has expanded to two other locations quietly selling cannabis with what seems like little to no media presence. No cannabis cups and no obnoxious Internet…
Dear Stoner: I recently read some quote from Thomas Jefferson about smoking bowls on his patio. Did our Founding Fathers actually smoke the hemp they were growing? History Buff Dear Buff: The quote that is falsely attributed to T.J. — “Some of my finest hours have been spent on my…
Reverend Brandon Baker, leader of Colorado’s Greenfaith Ministries — a cannabis-centric congregation out of Nunn, just east of Fort Collins — thinks that not only is the new pot-driving law unnecessary, but that it also unfairly targets medical and religious users of cannabis. In fact, he sees it as such…
Last November’s passage of Amendment 64 was greeted with joy by many members of the cannabis community. But what followed was a confusing flurry of bills that will be further refined by rules and regulations to be crafted by the Department of Revenue in the months after they’re signed, likely…
Earlier today, we shared the thoughts of Sensible Colorado head Brian Vicente about the federal government’s continued silence on Amendment 64, the marijuana measure he co-authored. But we also asked Vicente’s views about the newly passed but not yet signed marijuana laws spurred by A64, as well as the fear…
Is it legal to grow hemp in Colorado? Like, right now? That’s a complicated question — and one that the Colorado Department of Agriculture is trying to clear up in a statement issued this week: “Amendment 64 did not authorize the immediate cultivation of hemp. It instead directed the General…
It’s been over six months since voters approved Amendment 64, which allows adults 21 and over in Colorado to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, and the Obama administration still hasn’t weighed in on the measure. Last week, we speculated that the delays would continue thanks to current scandals…
