Lately, local DEA agents have been getting their hands on significant amounts of weed, whether it’s testing samples taken from inspections of marijuana-analysis labs or hundreds of live plants seized from a Highlands Ranch grow house last Friday, as well as from similar raids over the past month. So what…
Today, President Barack Obama is coming to Denver to raise funds for Senator Michael Bennet — a display of favoritism in the primary that frustrates longtime Obama fan Polly Baca. But his appearance is welcomed by Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente and other medical marijuana advocates, who’ve been looking for a…
In many ways the friction between Mason Tvert, head of Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER) and Lieutenant Ernie Martinez, head of the Colorado Drug Investigators Association (CDIA), personifies the ongoing clash between law enforcement and marijuana activists. While the two both sit on the mayor-appointed Denver Marijuana Policy Review…
Chris Bartkowicz, whose Highlands Ranch marijuana grow was raided by the Drug Enforcement Administration last Friday after he was interviewed by 9News, has instantly become a major figure in the debate over medical marijuana in Colorado, with attorney Rob Corry calling for agents involved in the operation to be sacked,…
The Drug Enforcement Administration raid on a home marijuana grow in Highlands Ranch, coming hot on the heels of similar actions at medical marijuana labs in Denver and Colorado Springs, spurred outcry from the likes of attorney Rob Corry, who called for agents involved in the Highlands Ranch matter to…
Lately, dispensary owners and marijuana growers have been watching their back. Over the past few weeks, Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided two marijuana testing facilities, one in Denver and one in Colorado Springs, as well busting a Highland Ranch marijuana grow on Friday that its owner had bragged about on…
Attorney Warren Edson was practicing medical marijuana-related law before doing so was cool. And now, with the industry growing in Colorado like never before, he’s expanding his operations by merging his practice with Kumin Sommers LLP, a San Francisco-based firm with a specialty in medical marijuana law in California, whose…
The Denver Post prides itself on being a family newspaper — but its embrace of social media can make it difficult to keep grown-up language at bay. Case in point: On Friday, AM 760 host David Sirota, whose syndicated column frequently appears in the Post , tweeted about a Joel…
You didn’t think attorney Rob Corry would remain silent after the Drug Enforcement Administration raid on the home of Chris Bartkowicz, did you? After all, Corry’s among the most vocal of all Colorado’s medical marijuana advocates, and if he has problems with Representative Tom Massey’s bill to regulate the industry,…
Last week’s DEA raid of Genovations, a Colorado Springs medical marijuana laboratory, was the second time in recent weeks that the agency had swooped in on a lab that had applied for a license in an attempt to prove its forthrightness and responsibility; the same scenario played out in January…
We recently wrote about how a DEA raid at Full Spectrum Laboratories, a Denver medical marijuana testing facility, was triggered by the lab applying for an analytical lab licensure through the DEA. Now DEA agents have hit another marijuana testing lab — Colorado Springs-based Genovations — not long after the…
In today’s Denver Post, columnist David Harsanyi argues that the debate over medical marijuana is dishonest in part because advocates actually want legalization — a goal that might be hurt by the passage of Representative Tom Massey’s medical marijuana bill, because it would give dispensaries a monetary incentive to fight…
Our roster of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary reviews has just grown by one, thanks to the publication moments ago of the Wildflower Seed’s critique of One Brown Mouse/Cannabis Healing Arts. And after learning more about this Nederland locale, check out Westword’s newly updated dispensary directory. More information is just…
This dispensary has closed. As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred…
A triple serving of blogs about Denver. T.J. Johnson at Mile High Report likens the Broncos’ running game this past season to a Flock of Seagulls haircut: “While you might wear it for a year or two, it better not become your style.” But at least you’d look awesome. Charley…
Prominent medical marijuana advocates such as Matt Brown and Brian Vicente have already weighed in on the medical marijuana bill sponsored by Representative Tom Massey. But one of the most notable figures in the medical marijuana debate — attorney Rob Corry — has been largely silent on the topic to…
When Representative Tom Massey spoke to Westword on January 15 about the medical marijuana bill he was assembling, he described dispensaries as “a loophole in the law” — the kind of language that warmed the heart of Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, who has long wanted to put the medical…
Tension between medical-marijuana businesses and the feds ratcheted up two weeks ago when Drug Enforcement Administration agents rolled through Full Spectrum Laboratories, a Denver marijuana testing facility, seizing all pot samples they could find — all while the lab’s owners were at the Capitol testifying against a medical-marijuana bill. Betty…
In the beginning, the medical marijuana bill being assembled by Representative Tom Massey was popularly known as the “law-enforcement bill.” Not anymore. The measure put forward by Massey this week (one co-sponsored by Representative Ken Summers, interviewed today in this space), no longer has Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’s seal…
This week, a new medical marijuana bill was introduced, and while activists at the Cannabis Therapy Institute see it and an earlier measure about doctor-patient relationships as largely contemptible, advocates Matt Brown and Brian Vicente see promise amid the problems — although Vicente has announced plans for a medical marijuana…
Senator Chris Romer’s bill about the relationship between doctors and medical marijuana patients rolls on — and advocates such as Matt Brown of Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation don’t see it as especially onerous. To put it mildly, that view isn’t shared by the folks at the Cannabis Therapy Institute…
When medical marijuana advocate Matt Brown spoke to Westword yesterday about Representative Tom Massey’s new bill to regulate the industry, he hadn’t seen the final document — just a draft from late last week. And after perusing the latest product, he was presently surprised. “It’s a lot better than I…
