The High Times Cannabis Cup, which was rejected in Denver and ensnared in bureaucracy after an announced plan to move to Pueblo, will be skipping Colorado entirely this year. High Times magazine has announced that the event will instead be taking place at the National Orange Show Events Center in San…
Facebook may be blocking the pages of pot businesses, including a number in Colorado. But Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, continues to be a great place to find eye-popping marijuana images, many of which are shared by local companies — or local cannabis enthusiasts. As evidence, check out the…
Dear Stoner: I booked my hotel near the old Cannabis Cup venue. Will there be stoner buses going to Pueblo? I’m mad at High Times for moving it — two-hour drive, with cops! Billy Dear Billy: I feel your pain, brother. Like drinking and driving, smoking pot while driving is…
The Colorado Department of Transportation doesn’t want you to smoke weed and drive, as we report in this week’s cover story, “Weed Limit,” but thinking about where you can stop off to buy weed is apparently just fine. In fact, there are now small signs along I-70 and I-25 that…
Westword contributor Matthew Van Deventer recently wrote about the prospect of Denver placing a limit on the number of marijuana business and grows in the city. Most of the readers who responded suggested that the market, not the government, should dictate how many shops and grows Denver can support. We also heard…
Melanie Brinegar woke up one morning in July 2014, took her daily dose of medicine and then headed to work. She never got there. Police pulled her over for an expired license plate, then noticed an empty dispensary bottle in the back of her car. Brinegar, an employee of RiverRock…
The High Times Cannabis Cup may not be coming to Pueblo after all. According to a spokeswoman for Pueblo County Commissioners, the magazine has pulled its Special Events Permit application for the annual cannabis festival. After getting the boot from the Denver Mart by Adams County Commissioners in February thanks…
The response to our post offering a first look at Denver NORML’s initiative to allow marijuana clubs suggests that there’s a lot of support for the idea. Comments flooded in, with the vast majority backing the concept. The most common reason cited was the Amendment 64-vintage call for marijuana to be…
I’m a person who doesn’t carry a lot of cash, because having it enables my weak-minded impulsiveness. I’ve usually got enough money to cover my (bargain) meals, but I still often find myself cashless when driving toward a dispensary I’ve never visited before. I was worried that I was about…
In the middle of a four-month extension of the 2014 marijuana moratorium that was set to expire on January 1, 2016, Denver City Council is considering all options — including imposing caps on locations, a proposal that at-large council rep Robin Kniech presented on February 22. The Special Issues Marijuana…
Dear Stoner: Where can I find cannabis-friendly events around Denver? I have a business in cannabis and would like to host a smoke-friendly event, but I’m not sure where to look. Tarik Dear Tarik: Hosting a cannabis-friendly event in Colorado is pretty easy, but hosting a pot-smoking-friendly event? Not so…
Can an insurance company refuse to pay for damage to marijuana at a legal pot shop because cannabis remains illegal at the federal level? That was among the many questions asked in a lawsuit filed by Green Earth Wellness Center, a Colorado Springs medical marijuana business, against its insurer, Atain…
Last month, we reported about Denver NORML’s plan to introduce a marijuana social use initiative for the 2016 ballot. And when we chatted with Denver NORML executive director Jordan Person about a marijuana raid in Colorado Springs that she saw as an example of why such an initiative was needed,…
Marcus Forzani, seventeen, was carrying a vape pen in his pocket when something unexpected happened. The vaporizer’s battery exploded — an uncommon occurrence, but one that’s not exactly unprecedented. As a result, Forzani suffered second- and third-degree burns to one leg. A GoFundMe page has been created to help raise…
News broke earlier in February that Adams County had denied the High Times Cannabis Cup’s event permit, only for the publication to later announce that the festival would move to Pueblo. But now, the status of the Pueblo site is also in question. Originally scheduled to be at the Denver…
Our Thomas Mitchell recently reported about a study showing that the legal marijuana business used over $6 billion in energy during 2015. The report started a firestorm among our commenters, with many of them pointing out that the energy costs would be substantially diminished if outdoor grows were allowed. Among…
When it was revealed in November that Snoop Dogg had partnered with the LivWell dispensary chain to sell his own brand of cannabis products, the announcement provoked two reactions: intrigue and contempt. Intrigue from those who appreciated the shrewd venture and the image of Tha Doggfather legally pushing pot products,…
A new report shared with the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that many marijuana tourists got more than they bargained for when visiting Colorado after the state legalized limited recreational pot sales. Specifically, the number of out-of-state residents who made cannabis-related emergency room visits in 2014, after Amendment 64 went…
Dear Stoner: What is Thai stick? Is it just an old strain of chronic from the ’70s? The Berg Dear Berg: Be ready to take notes if an old-timer ever tells you about the time he smoked a Thai stick, because it was probably crazier than any blunt you’ve ever…
As recently as last summer, some cannabis activists were disappointed by presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’s marijuana policies. But since then, Sanders had become more progressive about cannabis — and now, a recent poll suggests that he’s got a real shot to defeat Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in the March 1 Colorado…
Legal indoor marijuana grows are consuming energy at an exorbitant rate, according to a recent report by a cannabis industry data provider. While most of legalized marijuana’s effects on communities are measured in terms of dollars and crime statistics, electricity usage is becoming an issue of growing concern among environmentalists…
In a sea of generically named pot shops labeled with words like “apothecary,” “alternative,” “herbal” and so on, anything original is sure to stand out. To be honest, though, I hadn’t noticed how clever Terrapin Care Station’s name was until a friend was playing a Grateful Dead album one lazy…
