One of the most popular arguments among marijuana-legalization critics is that greater cannabis accessibility for adults will lead to more use by teens. But a new study from the University of Michigan calls that assumption into question. Michigan researchers found that teen pot use actually declined this year despite legalization…
Controversial cannabis researcher Sue Sisley is on her way back to Colorado today, after six months that have been a “pretty barbaric rollercoaster,” she says. “One injustice after another, and I suspect it will not slow down for quite a while.” But at the end of November, the Arizona-based researcher…
Regular readers of The Latest Word know that Laura Kriho of the Cannabis Therapy Institute and activist Kathleen Chippi are two of the area’s most vocal and passionate marijuana loyalists. Now, with the holidays approaching, they’re offering a new angle on their advocacy — Kriho via a wide range of…
Things have slowed down on the cannabis-events front, apart from the usual classes and tours — but there are some things planned for later this year and early in 2015 that you’ll want to pencil into your datebooks. See also: Introducing Nug Hunt, Denver’s First Marijuana Scavenger Hunt…
Don’t let the location in a rundown, shitty strip center that’s years from its former glory fool you. Holistic Life may be in one of the grungiest locations on South Sheridan, but the herb inside is easily the best I’ve found during months of searching in the area. See also:…
Editor’s note: William Breathes’s medical marijuana dispensary review, normally published at this time, needs a little more time to cure. In its stead, we bring you an update about a town going to extremes to prevent a cannabis store from opening nearby. Earlier this week, we noted that Granby’s Board…
Dear Stoner: I’m a committed home brewer, and I was wondering how to make pot beer. I was thinking of adding oil to my beer, but I didn’t know if that wouldn’t dissolve in beer. I also thought about putting flower in the beer, like a hop, and boiling it…
Hemp clothing/lifestyle-product group Hemp House is throwing the city’s first Nug Hunt — a scavenger hunt planned for mid-January, when the company will give away coupons for 24 penny-priced eighths of herb from Evergreen Apothecary and Colorado Harvest Company. See also: Medical Marijuana Dispensary Review: Altitude the Dispensary (West)…
The Journal of the American Medical Association has published a report penned by three emergency room physicians at the University of Colorado hospital in Aurora about the health-related fallout from marijuana legalization in the state. And while there are some positives to be found in the material, most of the…
We’ve been reporting about one of marijuana attorney Robert Hoban’s more unusual cases, involving the Town of Granby’s efforts to block a pot shop by annexing the unincorporated land its owner had leased. But he’s also assisting another ganjapreneur in an equally strange face-off with a local community. In this…
Update: Last week, we told you about the Town of Granby’s efforts to block a pot shop and grow by annexing the unincorporated land its owner had leased; see our previous coverage below. A hearing about the matter was supposed to be held on Friday, but it was postponed to…
Wednesday’s the big day for pot events this week, between a responsible vendor training program, a film screening and cannabis business awards. Hopefully you’ve got some idea of where you’d like to be — and if not, keep reading. See also: Charlotte’s Web: Untangling One of Colorado’s Biggest Cannabis Success…
This article from the May 1914 Summit County Journal gives a good idea of the official national temperament toward drugs at the time with a summary of the 1914 Harrison Narcotic Tax Act. But it’s the accompanying cartoon that tells the real story. See also: Cannabis Time Capsule, 1893: Horses…
Not to get all pot-snobby here, but buying pot legally at a dispensary has gone from a completely mind-blowing unique experience to one I equate with all my other weekly errands. That’s not to say I don’t enjoy it, but I’ve found that I treat it along the same lines…
Plenty of Colorado municipalities have chosen to ban marijuana businesses, but few have gone to the extremes of Granby, a gorgeous community in Grand County. Officials have threatened to annex land that’s not officially part of the town to prevent a marijuana shop from opening there — a plan it’s…
Dear Stoner: How long does it take for pot to go to four nanograms in the bloodstream so a person can drive? Does it happen overnight? What if they are smoking at midnight and really stoned? Also, I know I can grow my six plants with three flowering. Can that…
In Colorado, if you’re 21 or older, you’re free to buy, use, grow and give away cannabis. You can even apply for a sales license to grow and sell it for profit. But what you can’t do is take pounds of it across state lines and try to make a…
Eric Prine’s uncontrollable seizures began in late 1992, not long after the six-month-old’s parents, Ronnie and Jennifer, took him to the doctor for routine vaccinations. The near-constant seizures soon left Eric a shell of his former self. “We lost every bit that was him,” says Ronnie. “We never saw any…
When we spoke to Colorado-born, Hawaii-based THC Ministry founder Roger Christie in June 2010, he was readying a challenge to the federal government’s marijuana laws that would have treated dispensaries like churches. But mere weeks later, he was busted by the feds on pot distribution charges and spent the next…
Last week, we noted that marijuana businesses were embracing Black Friday, with The Grass Station leading the charge via $50 ounces for the first sixteen customers on November 26-28. And while the promotion was presumably aimed at local customers, the whole “Green Friday” concept definitely got national exposure. See also:…
If you have an opinion about how cannabis edibles should be labeled and packaged, then you’ve got just a few hours left to share your views with the state. Or you can listen to reggae with like-minded growers, sign up for a glassblowing class and more. See also: Pot-Related Souvenir…
This January 15, 1896 story, “Joy for the Topers” (old-timer slang for drunks), mentions cannabis in passing, but the majority of the piece is on the wonders and joys of eating peyote and mescaline — notable, mostly, because it was written some seventy years before Hunter S. Thompson and his…
