Employers would be allowed to fire employees for smoking marijuana off-site under a recommendation endorsed by the Amendment 64 Task Force on Tuesday. Members also voted to support a marijuana DUI bill and to recommend education for juveniles in possession of less than an ounce of pot. But they couldn’t…
Update: Moments after sharing the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2013, a potentially groundbreaking piece of legislation co-sponsored by Colorado Representative Jared Polis, we’ve received more information. Look below to see a statement from Polis on the bill, as well as a fact sheet laying out the basics about…
In mid-December, we shared complaints from a marijuana activist about alleged conflicts of interest in regard to one member of the governor’s Amendment 64 task force. More recently, the activist raised concerns about another task force member — and this time, a guv rep responded with an e-mail suggesting that…
This weekend, CBS4 reported about marijuana being advertised for free on Craigslist in exchange for donations or other offers, and questioned whether the practice was legal under Amendment 64; see the video below. But the folks behind 4 Strains Pipe & Tobacco are confident they’re doing nothing wrong in offering…
Tickets are on sale for what is being billed as the first-ever High Times Cannabis Cup on American soil, here in Denver over the 4/20 weekend. Since our first post on the event, the folks at High Times magazine have decided to include everyone in the festivities — almost. Unfortunately…
Terrapin Care Station has grown up since my first visit nearly two years ago, swapping the patchouli and tapestry atmosphere for something more professional — like a college kid who bought a pair of puffy brown couches and started framing his Further and Railroad Earth posters instead of tacking them…
Dear Stoner: I am a registered nurse, and I plan to continue being one. I also enjoy lighting up and would like to get a medical card — but not at the expense of my job. I have been clean for any job testing, and I realize that the need…
If laughter is the best medicine, then Jason Mewes is quite healthy these days. Mewes, best known as best known as the talking half of the duo Jay and Silent Bob, will be in Boulder this Friday with cult-film-god Kevin Smith to record an episode of their wildly successful weekly…
Update: Yesterday, we shared Florida-based comedian-filmmaker Adam Hartle’s frustrated reaction after ex-Congressman Tom Tancredo welched on a bet to smoke legal pot together after the passage of Amendment 64; see our original coverage below. Now Hartle tells us that he’s had to edit Tancredo out of a trailer created to…
For the past month, members of the Governor John Hickenlooper-appointed Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force have been meeting to discuss how they would like to see the state’s recreational cannabis industry proceed. Early on, the task force was divided into five working groups, all charged with examining issues ranging from…
Today, Miguel Lopez, the organizer of Denver’s annual 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park, released the schedule for this year’s two-day event, taking place on (duh) April 20 and 21. But in addition to a breakdown of happenings on each day, he also shares his often-negative thoughts about Amendment 64’s…
At noon today, the Colorado Children’s Caucus will make a presentation to the state’s general assembly entitled “How Drugs are Endangering Colorado’s Children;” get details below. As the program’s title implies, the organization, featuring the likes of state senators Kevin Lundberg and Linda Newell, is worried about negative effects associated…
Last week, onetime Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo revealed that he would take a single puff of a marijuana cigarette to settle a bet with a comedian-filmmaker. Once he does, he’ll join a large number of politicians who’ve done likewise — and most of them admit it. Continue to count…
While there are dozens of ways to ingest your cannabis, the most common (and classic) way is to roll yourself a number, light it and burn it down to the end. Unfortunately, some people have yet to master that skill and are still rolling pregnant dolphins. So to help, we’ve…
Update: Yesterday, we shared a video in which ex-Congressman and former gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo promised to smoke marijuana with a comedian trying to finance a documentary about the passage of Amendment 64; see our previous coverage and the clip below. Since then, we’ve heard from Tancredo, who confirms that…
I would love to say there was another reason for my visiting Nature’s Cure III on Colfax, but there just isn’t. The shop isn’t really known for much more than rock-bottom pricing on their buds, and there’s often a line to get in — so I figured I’d finally make…
Dear Stoner: Why does every one of my puff sessions end with a trip to the convenience store for snacks? Fat Doobie Dear Doob: You want to know about the famed “munchies”? Well, allow me to get all Bill Nye on you right quick. Your body naturally produces chemicals called…
Could what is basically a carbon copy of Colorado’s Amendment 64 help make the Aloha State the next one to pass laws legalizing the cultivation, sale and possession of marijuana in small amounts? If Hawaii House Speaker Joseph Souki is successful, it just might…
Most sane, rational people understand that the cannabis plant has medical properties beneficial to patients who suffer from severe pain, chronic nausea and a number of other conditions. And then you’ve got the federal government, which has again refused to accept marijuana’s medicinal properties…
The first meeting of the Denver City Council’s Amendment 64 Committee, held yesterday afternoon, concluded with few answers but a big pile of questions. The most pressing of the latter might also be the most formidable: Can the committee accomplish its goals within a very tight timeline?…
In a post about the first meeting of the Denver City Council’s recreational marijuana committee, chairman Charlie Brown shared anecdotes he’s heard about public pot smoking at ski areas since Amendment 64. But a spokeswoman for Colorado’s ski industry says resorts have had virtually no problems with visitors who don’t…
The first meeting of the Amendment 64 committee of the Denver City Council is scheduled to get underway at 3:30 p.m. today — and while Councilman Charlie Brown, the panel’s chairman, stresses that no votes will take place during the initial session, he expects a disparity of views among the…
