Marijuana

Owning a pot-smoking utensil can require a lot of upkeep — and anyone who uses them frequently knows how hard removing that black tar and wax reclaim can be.

Some of these strains are named in partnership between the musician and the commercial cultivations that grow them, while others were simply named by black market breeders who noticed a similarity between a strain’s effects and the way an artist’s music made them feel.

With CBD and THC options available in numerous states now, a reader wants to know what type of edibles she can order in the mail.

Cherry Creek School District’s superintendent wrote in 2016 that his school district hadn’t received any money from marijuana tax revenue, but information from the Colorado Department of Education shows otherwise. Unfortunately, by then Jeff Hunt had already used that letter to bolster his op ed about marijuana in USA Today.

During a recent interview with Westword, Smart Approaches to Marijuana President and CEO Kevin Sabet, one of America’s most influential critics of cannabis legalization, offered an unexpected observation about his visits to Denver. According to Sabet, a number of vehicles provided to him by Denver International Airport rental car businesses over the past few years have smelled strongly of pot. He added that he’s had to exchange rentals multiple times at DIA before he’s been given one that didn’t reek of weed, giving him multiple opportunities to “educate” personnel at the agencies about the scope of a problem he views as positively chronic.

WiFi is a good example of taking two semi-popular strains and creating something better. Don’t get me wrong: The White and Fire OG are fine strains in their own right, but they don’t bring the same potency and amenable high as their child, which carries on the White’s fertile resin-gland production and Fire OG’s tart, earthy flavors.

Casara Andre is stuck between a rock and a hard place. In fact, so are all of her clients and some of her colleagues. The owner of Scheduled Relief veterinary clinic and a practicing veterinarian, Andre believes cannabis products have medical benefits for pets, but she can’t legally recommend cannabis for her furry patients.

A man from out of state wants to know if Colorado’s haven for smoking pot will protect him if he fails a drug test back home.

The drafters of Denver’s social cannabis consumption initiative have been vocal about their dissatisfaction with the city’s finalized rules and distance requirements for businesses applying to open a consumption area. Now they’re taking it a step further, threatening to sue the City of Denver if less restrictive rules aren’t put…

Kevin Sabet, the president and CEO of Virginia-based Smart Approaches to Marijuana, has become arguably the most influential critic of marijuana legalization in the United States. But in an extended interview on view below, he fights against the perception that he’s a one-dimensional prohibitionist along the lines of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sabet stresses that he and his organization, shorthanded as SAM, take what he sees as a sensible approach to cannabis by arguing in favor of treatment rather than jail time for users in trouble and advocating for greater study of the substance to determine the best ways to utilize it medically.

Wyoming is considered one of the best theaters on the West Coast to view the eclipse. Many of those visitors are expected to come from Colorado, but Wyoming sheriffs have a message for us: don’t bring your weed.

Kirke LLC/Metro Denver Telluride Health Center LLC, known to its customers as The Hemp Center, has voluntarily issued a recall on medical marijuana products because of potentially unsafe levels of four banned pesticides.

Jeff Sessions, a proponent of the war on drugs, hasn’t been shy about saying that marijuana should remain illegal federally. So on April 3, four governors of the states with legal recreational cannabis businesses up and running, including Colorado, sent him a letter. And finally, the Attorney General has responded.

Jeff Hunt, the vice president of Public Policy at Colorado Christian University, invited Westword and others to share his op-ed, “Marijuana Devastated Colorado, Don’t Legalize It Nationally” earlier this week. Although we declined, USA Today obliged in spreading Hunt’s reefer-madness gospel on August 7

Our Stoner tells a concerned Coloradan how to report unhealthy marijuana cultivations to the proper authorities.

Wana Brands has announced an addition to its branch of infused pills in hopes of pleasing consumers looking for more specific effects.

Blackberry Kush has been largely overshadowed by the Blueberries and Grape Apes of the strain world, but it’s achieved a moderate shine in Denver, where I’ve found at least a dozen pot shops carrying it over the past year.

Most Colorado locals know the unwritten rules of smoking while on a hike, but some tourists and transplants might have a little bit to learn. Here’s some tips on how to get the most from a pot-infused hike.

How old do you have to be to buy CBD products? What if they’re made from hemp? Our Stoner has the info.

As pro-pot as the rest of the country makes Colorado out to be, it’s still hard for folks to get together, chat and enrich themselves over cannabis outside of a private home. Then, the Mile High Showcase come to town.

Since pairing CBD and coffee is all the rage the days, trying GO Beans, 1906’s interesting take on the fad, seemed like a fun morning mission. But it proved more of a learning experience.

While Jeff Sessions is writing states that have legalized marijuana, he’s hearing from Coloradans, too, who want to make sure medical marijuana stays legal in this state.