Since 2012, we’ve been reporting about DISH’s firing of Brandon Coats, a paralyzed medical marijuana patient, after he failed a drug test. Coats’s lawsuit over the issue has failed in Arapahoe District Court and the Colorado Court of Appeals. It’s now headed to the Colorado Supreme Court, where powerful forces…
It’s been two weeks since Colorado farmers could begin registering with the state Department of Agriculture to grow industrial hemp, and the department reports that twelve producers have completed the process. As of March 17, seven producers had registered to grow hemp for commercial purposes and five producers had registered…
Not all that long ago, marijuana advocates tended to encounter more shut doors than open ones when dealing with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. But times are steadily changing. Last week, a group organized by the Denver-based National Cannabis Industry Association spent two days in the Nation’s Capitol, with members participating…
While we would love to take credit as the first newspaper in Colorado to actually offer advice on growing and consuming marijuana, it turns out that the Aspen Daily Times had us beat by decades, going all the way back to August 11, 1938. Sort of. The little brief is…
Yesterday, the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled that Amendment 64 applies retroactively to defendants whose actions would have been legal under the measure and were appealing convictions when it became law. A64 co-author Brian Vicente has called the decision a huge victory, while Colorado Attorney General John Suthers suggests that…
People from around the country took part in CannaSearch, Colorado’s first cannabis job fair, at which twelve marijuana-based companies set up tables offering job opportunities. O.Pen Vape presented the event, and it was open for anyone ages 21 and older. Jobs included photojournalism, marketing, sales, tour guides, bud tenders and…
The national media continues to be fascinated by Colorado cannabis, Stephen Colbert included. Last night, less than two months after his amusing tribute to the marijuana Super Bowl, he devoted the lion’s share of his program to the subject via two segments: one exploring the scene in what he dubs…
Remember when you’d go over to your friendly neighborhood pot dealer’s house and he would only have one strain of herb to offer you — but, hey, it was weed, so it didn’t really matter? Me, neither. It’s been way too long since that’s been the case, considering the hundreds…
The folks at the Colorado Bar Association have weed on their mind. For the December edition of its “Legal Lines” column, the CBA considered whether marijuana attorneys are violating professional ethics by representing clients who break federal law (even if what they’re doing is perfectly fine in Colorado). Now, “Legal…
Dear Stoner: If I have a half-ounce of raw herb, how many milligrams of THC edibles can I also have before I am technically over the one-ounce recreational limit?Frank the Tank Dear Frank: This is the type of ninth-grade math question we wish our teacher had asked us back in…
The family of a seizure-stricken little girl who became the face of medical marijuana in New Jersey has moved to Colorado after that state’s MMJ program completely failed them, the parents say. Meghan and Brian Wilson maintain that they aren’t angry with New Jersey officials. However, they felt they needed…
Update: Last week, we highlighted five recent explosions, allegedly caused by people whose attempts to make butane hash oil went up in smoke; see our previous coverage below. Apparently, two people at a Grand Junction motel didn’t heed our warnings, because their hash-oil-making efforts ended in flames, burns and a…
The Movoto real estate blog put together its list of the ten highest American cities includes three Colorado community way, way up on the list. No surprise, right? Well, at least one of the picks is genuinely unexpected, and so are multiple omissions. Count down the top ten below, complete…
The literal high point of the annual Denver 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park comes at 4:20 p.m., when attendees light up simultaneously. But could this ritual be absent from the 2014 edition of festival? A few weeks back, rally attorney Rob Corry answered this question with a letter to…
In June 2013, we told you about a 71-count indictment accusing businessman Conley Hoskins and eleven others with defrauding investors who wanted to cash in on the state’s booming medical marijuana industry. That move was taken by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, but now, the feds are getting involved. The…
In the wake of Amendment 64’s passage, some officials worried marijuana sales tax revenues wouldn’t pay for needed regulation. But at least in month one, such concerns proved to be unfounded. The retail pot sales launch resulted in a gusher of cash, with more than $3.5 million in tax revenues…
Last month, we told you about a lawsuit filed against Broncos owner Pat Bowlen after a vehicle was twice ejected from a Mile High Stadium parking lot because it was emblazoned with the logo of Cannabis University. Since then, the Colorado Civil Rights Division has informed the Broncos about the…
Last October, when the Denver City Council was debating an ordinance that would have established fines and even jail time for home pot smoking that could be smelled from neighboring properties, we put together a list of the five Colorado places that smell worse than the pot smoker next door…
Could marijuana have played a role in fixing one of the most important American boxing matches in history? Probably not, but we’ve uncovered at least one harebrained scheme reported in a Colorado newspaper in1889 that says it could be plausible. As far as fighters go, John Lawrence Sullivan was one…
The Colorado Department of Transportation has launched a wide-ranging multi-media campaign intended to stop stoned motorists from getting behind the wheel. It’s simple slogan: “Drive high, get a DUI.” At this point, stats showing the scope of the stoned driving problem or if it’s been increasing don’t exist. But CDOT…
Alive Herbal Medicine seems out of place. Not because it’s situated in the small Sunnyside neighborhood next to a residential area, or because the corrugated tin barn of a building looks like it belongs on a farm and not off a busy interstate in the middle of Denver. What feels…
Dear Stoner: What’s up with this German study claiming that two people have died from marijuana? What’s the call here?Def J. Dear Def J.: That study is based on some pretty circumstantial evidence: Researchers cite a couple of reports about two men in their twenties whose blood pressure increased slightly…
