Christian Thurstone, a psychiatrist with board certifications in addiction treatment and child and adolescent care, has seen plenty of news reports about why medical marijuana is a good thing — but precious few about the potential harm it can do. That’s why he wrote a provocative piece for the Denver…
In a blog published earlier this month, we told you about Greenway University, a “medical marijuana training and education institute” that was slated to stage a two-day seminar at the Westin Tabor Center downtown. Those sessions were smashes, drawing more than 200 people, precipitating the scheduling of another couple of…
Cities and towns all over Colorado are flummoxed over how to regulate the state’s booming medical marijuana industry. Several have instituted moratoriums on new dispensaries until they can hammer out some rules; even more have at least considered ways to slow the industry’s growth. In Boulder, a city with a…
Last November, we told you about a lawsuit filed against the City of Centennial on behalf of CannaMart, a dispensary shuttered the previous month after the imposition of a ban within town limits. On December 30, Arapahoe County District Court Judge Christopher Cross ruled in CannaMart’s favor — and just…
New on the Latest Word: A fresh entry in our series of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary reviews — a critique of Nederland’s Tea Alchemy by The Wildflower Seed — with a bonus take on Grateful Meds thrown in for no extra charge. Moreover, there’s plenty of additional information about…
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…
Yesterday, Betty Aldworth, director of outreach for Full Spectrum Laboratories, a marijuana testing facility, was at the State Capitol to watch lab co-owner Bob Winniki testify about Senator Chris Romer’s just-introduced bill dealing with the relationship between doctors and medical marijuana patients. But before Winniki could speak, the twosome received…
The great Colorado debate over medical marijuana finally reached the gold dome of the State Capitol on Wednesday when Democratic Senator Chris Romer introduced the first of two proposed bills dealing with the issue. More than 150 people, including a large number of disabled medical marijuana patients, turned out before…
The Denver Post has labeled Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, a “drug-war soldier” who didn’t get the memo that the battle was over. Medical marijuana advocates are calling him the leader of a “war on patients,” since behind the scenes he’s helping…
The owner of Footprints Health & Wellness was confused by the rationale used by Jefferson County when it tried to shutter his dispensary, as he conceded in an interview last week. That makes sense to his attorney, Lauren Davis. She says it took three lawyers, one of whom is a…
Senator Chris Romer withdrew his initial bill to regulate the state’s medical marijuana industry in favor of one with a narrower focus — specifically the relationship between doctors and MM patients. Yesterday, attorney Rob Corry sent his line-by-line dissection of the package to legislators — yet Romer is still tinkering…
Attorney Rob Corry has significant issues with Senator Chris Romer’s legislation concerning the relationship between doctors and medical marijuana patients. Less critical is Dr. Paul Bregman, the medical director of the CannaMed USA doctor referral service. Bregman actually believes the senator “is on the right track” even though the doc’s…
Earlier this month, we told you about medical marijuana attorney Rob Corry’s shredding of Senator Chris Romer’s draft bill to regulate the medical marijuana industry — an action that predated Romer’s decision to withdraw the legislation. Since then, Representative Tom Massey has taken on the chore of assembling a bill…
Ever since Centennial’s dispensary ban was shot down in Arapahoe District Court a month ago, Colorado medical marijuana operations faced with similar moratoriums in other locales have refused to go quietly into the night. The latest dispute is brewing in Jefferson County. Last week, county commissioners there enacted a six-month…
Members of the medical marijuana industry frequently cringe at the way their community is portrayed in the mainstream media, and that’s led to the development of homegrown news operations intended to provide a more accurate portrait of the issue. A prime example of this literally grassroots movement: Angela Macdonald of…
What do former pro football players do once their careers are over? The rise of the medical marijuana industry in Colorado provides a possible answer owing to one simple fact: A helluva lot of athletes love weed. Unfortunately, though, there can still be complications — like the ones currently embroiling…
Moments ago, we published the latest in our series of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary reviews — a critique of Apothecary of Colorado by William Breathes. But this piece is only the beginning of our coverage — and one of the best ways to find more of it is by…
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…
Legislators such as Representative Tom Massey are eager to rein in Colorado’s booming medical marijuana industry — but despite their best efforts, word has gotten out to Weed Nation that Colorado, and specifically Denver, are pot-friendly places. Take this recent post on RollItUp.org by a guy who calls himself “Mr…
Hardly a day goes by without Mason Tvert, head of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), going after some individual or institution standing in the way of legalizing marijuana use for adults in Colorado and beyond. Still, his latest target is a surprise: Starbucks, the ubiquitous peddler of a highly…
Brian Vicente, executive director of Sensible Colorado and co-chair of a new organization called Sensible Patient and Provider Coalition, is understandably pleased by the results of a new ABC/Washington Post poll showing that 81 percent of respondents supported legalizing marijuana for medical use. “People are really leading on this issue,”…
At last — a defense against readers who aren’t wowed by Westword’s marijuana jokes: An article filled with them is cited in a petition for Writ of Certiorari with the Colorado Supreme Court filed yesterday in the case of medical marijuana caregiver Stacy Clendenin. Back in 2006, authorities raided Clendenin’s…
