Robert White, Denver’s police chief, knew a lot about Denver and Colorado before he came here, but there’s one thing that really shocked him: marijuana. That’s right! White, who left his post as police chief in Louisville, Kentucky in October, had no idea that moving to Denver meant he would…
This dispensary has closed. The entrance is borderline speakeasy-esque: A gray door is tucked in the space between Washington Park Grille on one side and a breakfast eatery/ice-cream bar on the other. It looks more like kitchen access for either restaurant than a dispensary entrance. Only a few unassuming signs…
Update below: Think everyone in the marijuana community is behind Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act? Think again. The measure has pitted advocates against advocates, frequently in online combat of the sort that recently turned the Coloradans 4 Cannabis Patient Rights Facebook group into a combat zone…
For the last eight months or so, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado has been shutting down medical marijuana storefronts within 1,000 feet of schools by simply sending the dispensaries a letter and giving them 45 days to vacate or face possible seizure of their property and assets. The tactic…
As Barack Obama was visiting CSU, where he was greeted by 13,000 supporters and an attack sign with a typo, the folks behind Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, released a letter with an academic flavor. It features the signatures of 100-plus professors who back the measure, including…
Even before Weeds satirized Colorado’s medical marijuana scene in 2010, the local MMJ industry has had a love-hate relationship with the Showtime program, whose run ends this season. However, last night’s episode, spotlighted in a clip below, is likely to inspire only the latter reaction among folks in the biz…
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? Super Charged: How Outlaws, Hippies and Scientists Reinvented Marijuana…
This dispensary has closed. After weeks of waiting and building social-media buzz, the Golden Goat has finally reopened in the space formerly occupied by Green Door Wellness — which always looked like a nest of old Deadheads had taken over an abandoned East Colfax building near a grow store and…
At 10:30 a.m. today, the NAACP’s Colorado/Montana/Wyoming conference will formally endorse Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act. Rosemary Harris Lytle, communications director for the local branch, who’s among the speakers at the event, taking place in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood, says the NAACP sees the measure as a…
The Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division of the Department of Revenue is strapped for cash, and the bare-bones staff is just barely keeping up with the task the division was given in July 2010: to license dispensaries in the state…
Update:A Colorado Center on Law and Policy study predicting the economic impact of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, has become a political football for proponents and opponents. Now, CCLP reps are defending the methodology of the report, whose totals differ from those of state officials…
There’s no shortage of manufacturers creating medical marijuana edibles, but sometimes the best medicated food comes out of your own kitchen. To help get you cooking, I’ve compiled some basic formulas for making infused oil, butter and tinctures, and also collected a few recipes from people in the local cannabis…
How will Denver’s ban of all outdoor advertising for medical marijuana businesses — approved last night in a quick, unanimous vote by Denver City council members — be enforced? A note sent to councilmembers last week by Tom Downey, head of the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses, gives some…
Tonight, despite a lawsuit threat, Denver City Council is expected to ban outdoor advertising at medical marijuana dispensaries — a move largely motivated by dislike of MMJ sign spinners. Yet as outlined by Kelsey Whipple’s recent feature “Spin City! Denver’s sign spinners want you to give them a twirl,” sign…
Cannabis might not be the cure for my stomach condition, but it sure helps. This week I stopped by Cure Colorado Dispensary to see if they had anything on the shelf to sooth what ails me…
Back in the paranoid ’90s, when I started toking, you didn’t want to tell too many people that you smoked cannabis — and you certainly didn’t want to be photographed using it. Times have certainly changed…
Thursdays at 4:20 p.m. is when we feature William Breathes’s latest dispensary review. But today’s diagnosis isn’t good: Because of technical difficulties, his latest critique, of Cure Colorado Dispensary, is requiring a little extra time to cure. Look for it at 4:20 p.m. tomorrow. In the meantime, thanks for your…
Next Monday, despite threats of a lawsuit, the Denver City Council seems all but certain to impose a ban on medical marijuana outdoor advertising — a proposal that seems to have been almost entirely motivated by antipathy toward sign spinners. If the council lowers the boom, how will these MMJ…
Despite the pleas of patients, dispensary owners and infused-product entrepreneurs, Denver City Council members unanimously approved going forward with a ban on all outdoor medical marijuana advertising in the city — a more draconian measure than the original proposal for a ban near schools, parks and other facilities…
The Colorado Attorney General’s office announcement of a 59-count indictment against Silver Lizard dispensary weeks after a law-enforcement survey showing medical marijuana was being diverted raised a question that’s buzzed in the background amid the campaign for Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act: Will cops and prosecutors step…
Last night, Denver City Council unanimously backed the proposed ban on medical marijuana outdoor advertising, despite a majority of speakers opposing the proposed measure, as well as one advocate’s threat to sue on First Amendment grounds. Council will now have to have a final vote to approve it on August…
Update below: Last week, our William Breathes noted that a Denver City Council-proposed outdoor medical marijuana advertising ban is up for public discussion tonight — but advocate Rico Colibri isn’t waiting. During the wee hours, he sent an open letter to the council (read it below) threatening to sue if…
