At midnight, Initiative 502, Washington state’s equivalent of Amendment 64, went into effect — and a huge throng gathered at the Space Needle to celebrate the occasion with public toking; see the video below. It’s precisely the sort of event the Denver District Attorney is trying to prevent by warning…
Less than a month before a city-council-approved ban on dispensaries would even take hold in the tiny town of Dacono, a petition that calls for repealing that ban has already been approved. It’s scheduled to go before voters in 2013…
Update: Yesterday, we noted that the Boulder City Attorney’s office planned a presentation suggesting that city council approve a moratorium until at least 2014 on new marijuana retail outlets legalized under Amendemnt 64; see previous coverage below. Last night, the council chose not to go forward with such an ordinance…
Earlier today, Sam Levin posted about business organizations calling for a federal crackdown on Colorado to prevent the implementation of Amendment 64, passed by voters last month. Meanwhile, though, 58 percent of voters quizzed nationwide favor legalizing marijuana according to a new poll — and activist Mason Tvert thinks the…
The Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division has released the set of rules personnel hope to change over the next year in order to streamline the state medical marijuana industry. See the full document below…
Frank McDonald is the self-proclaimed mayor of Stoner, Colorado, a town whose population numbers two — with the other resident being, in his words, “an old lady named Mary Jane.” But thanks to the community’s name, and the passage of Amendment 64, he thinks the future for the tiny spot…
Last January, private pilot Carl Gruber took off from a California airport headed for Boulder with 55 pounds of marijuana loaded into his tiny plane. But instead of friendly co-smugglers waiting for Gruber at the Boulder County Airport, the Boulder County Drug Task Force and agents from the Department of…
Since Amendment 64 passed in Colorado, Republican officials have been tasked with responding to a policy that the party didn’t embrace but a majority of voters supported. With small amounts of recreational marijuana use to be okayed in the state constitution, GOP reps are supporting the state’s right to make…
Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games to books. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? Puffit stealth personal vaporizer…
In August, we told you about a major court ruling in which an Arapahoe County judge found that because marijuana is illegal at the federal level, medical marijuana contracts can’t be enforced. Attorney Rob Corry subsequently (and somewhat reluctantly) made this same argument on behalf of a client, even though…
Although voters approved Amendment 64 earlier this month, the retail sales aspect of the measure can’t go into effect prior to late 2013 or early 2014 — and that’s only if (and it’s a big “if”) the federal government doesn’t take action to intervene. Yet Douglas County Commissioner Jack Hilbert…
Once again, the holidays have me broke. Between buying flights to see family and gifts for my wife and nephew, the wallet is a little thin. But as the song says, “First take care of head.” So I shot down to South Broadway’s Discount Dispensary Land to cash in on…
Former Congressman and Colorado gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo was arguably the most prominent Colorado Republican to publicly back Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act — and even after voters approved it, few GOP members are rushing to laud it. Should they? Yes, Tancredo believes, but because it fits…
According to the Transportation Security Administration, if medical marijuana patients’ paperwork checks out, they can board a flight with meds in tow as long as they are headed to a medical marijuana state that honors Colorado red cards. So…now that voters in Washington and Colorado have legalized small amounts of…
After the passage of Amendment 64, opportunities abounded for its main proponents, Mason Tvert and Brian Vicente. But while Tvert said he had no immediate plans to spread the gospel about the measure to other states, despite being invited to do so in California by HBO’s Bill Maher, Vicente is…
The state medical-marijuana registry continued to grow in September, with 107,666 people in Colorado signed up for the program. The official September tally of valid red cards marks an increase of 3,528 cards from the month before…
After a long delay, the state Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division has begun implementing a private caregiver registry — despite caregivers being handled by a separate government agency. State law crafted in response 2010’s House Bill 1284 requires the MMED to keep track of private caregiver grow locations — a useless…
Later today, representatives of Colorado NORML will meet with governor’s office staffers about Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act. As NORML’s Sean McAllister told us yesterday, they’ll stress the need for cannabis consumers to have a seat at the table — and a statement about a proposed task…
The debate about whether the Amendment 64 will help or hurt Colorado tourism rages on — and the same is true of the controversy over a proposed THC-driving bill that’s failed twice but will likely be introduced a third time in the next legislative session. These two topics collide, literally,…
The passage of Amendment 64 will require government officials to establish rules for an entirely new industry. In advance of this step, representatives from the Colorado branch of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) are scheduled to meet tomorrow with representatives of Governor John Hickenlooper. The goal:…
The passage of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, has created as much confusion as celebration. Tomorrow in Carbondale, for instance, trustees will weigh a moratorium on new medical marijuana dispensaries that’s specifically linked to the measure. An A64 proponent argues that such moves are unnecessary and based…
In doing research for our feature on the history of cannabis in Colorado, we came across some amazing old news stories from local papers about marijuana arrests and more. We’ll share the most memorable of them in our quasi-regular feature, Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule. Today’s item, from November 24, 1939:…
