Dear Stoner: My retired parents want to try marijuana now that Amendment 64 has passed. I don’t know what I should do about that since they used to bust me for smoking back in the day. Kind Kid Dear KK: Don’t bogart that stuff, man. If your parents want to…
Time flies when you’re flying high, and this year we’ve managed to stay nice and medicated thanks to more than fifty metro-area medical marijuana dispensaries that we secret-shopped. Here’s a look back at the top ten most delicious, potent and appealing strains (and concentrates) we brought home in 2012. See…
The legalization of marijuana is such a hot topic that even Olivia Culpo, the newly crowned Miss Universe, is weighing in on its merits. Culpo is the first American to win the title in fifteen years — and she’s now representing a country where recreational pot is legal in two…
It’s 2012 — at least for a few more days. It was the year that recreational pot became legal in Colorado, and people sure do love bragging about their marijuana on social media. Instagram is a particular hotspot for Amendment 64-related picture posts. Continue reading for our ten favorite Colorado…
It’s been a big year for marijuana in the state of Colorado, and for a few stoners who’ve been nice this year, it’s about to get even better. Have pot lovers on your list and no idea what stocking stuffers they’d like? Forget the malls. Forget even SkyMall. We’ve lined…
In doing research for our feature on the history of cannabis in Colorado, we came across some amazing old news stories from local papers about marijuana arrests and more. We’ll share the most memorable of them in our quasi-regular feature, Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule. Today’s item, from March 27, 1929:…
On December 10, the same day he signed Amendment 64 into law, Governor John Hickenlooper assembled a 24-member task force charged with developing policy recommendations. One of its members? “Addiction” expert Dr. Christian Thurstone. “I was personally sad for kids about the passing of 64,” Thurstone told Sam Levin. “But…
Fox Street Wellness is in a Bermuda triangle of a location, just southeast of Sunnyside in a warehouse district cornered by I-25 on the east, 48th Avenue to the north and I-70 to the south. Unless you know the area well, you’ll likely end up driving around in circles, cursing…
In order to address the many questions of marijuana legalization, Governor John Hickenlooper assembled a 24-member task force charged with developing policy recommendations. The addiction expert is Dr. Christian Thurstone, who says his goal is to limit the harm A64 could cause youth. We caught up with him yesterday to…
Dear Stoner: The governor signed Amendment 64 into law, but do you think the federal government is going to really allow this to happen? Cannacynic Dear ‘cynic: Attorneys have pointed out that there’s not much the feds can do about the decriminalization aspect of it at the state level: If…
Up in Weld County, owners of the three dispensaries in Dacono have filed a complaint to stop a citywide ban on medical marijuana businesses that’s scheduled to take effect January 1. Dacono Meds, Maryjane’s Medicinal and Green Medicals filed their request for an injunction last Friday, hoping to stay in…
Yesterday, the Task Force on the Implementation of Amendment 64, charged with researching the many unanswered questions about the legalization of marijuana in Colorado, met for the first time. But not before a marijuana activist objected to the involvement of Tamra Ward, who had signed onto a letter urging the…
When Governor John Hickenlooper signed Colorado’s pot measure into law last week, he announced the creation of a task force dedicated to resolving the long list of unanswered questions about legalization. In its first meeting yesterday afternoon, the group debated the best path to consensus — a process sure to…
Last week, a number of mainstream media outlets suggested that rescheduling marijuana might bridge the gap between conflicting state and federal laws following the passage of Amendment 64 — this despite the fact that the federal government took nine months to shrug off Colorado’s rescheduling suggestion. Even so, A64 proponent…
As we’ve reported, the first meeting of the Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force is slated for noon today. But even before that initial session, a marijuana activist is protesting the inclusion of one task force member, Colorado Concern’s Tamra Ward. Why? Because her signature is the first on letters from…
In doing research for our feature on the history of cannabis in Colorado, we came across some amazing old news stories from local papers about marijuana arrests and more. We’ll share the most memorable of them in our quasi-regular feature, Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule. Today’s item, from October 12, 1937:…
In teasing her interview tonight with President Barack Obama on 20/20 (see a preview below), Barbara Walters naturally starts with…pot. But while the headline statement involves Obama’s assurance that the federal government has larger priorities than to go after recreational marijuana users in Colorado and Washington state, he doesn’t give…
The longer the federal government waits to tell Colorado and Washington whether it will allow the states to determine their own marijuana policy after each passed pot-reform measures, the more theories surface about who in the administration might prove to be an impediment. The latest involves Vice President Joe Biden,…
High-profile media organizations have started floating the idea of rescheduling marijuana as a way of bridging the gap between federal law and Colorado’s in the wake of Amendment 64’s passage. As we noted Wednesday, Colorado asked DEA administrator Michele Leonhart to consider doing so this past December. Now we know…
Since the passage of Amendment 64, which legalizes adult possession of an ounce or less of marijuana, have you been getting questions about how it will work? So have we. To help clear the foggy air, we’ve asked medical marijuana dispensary critic William Breathes to follow in the footsteps of…
Last week, we introduced you to Frank McDonald, self-proclaimed mayor of Stoner, Colorado, who announced plans to transform the two-person town where he lives into an entertainment destination infused with the spirit of Amendment 64. Since that story and another profile, however, McDonald says he’s been jailed and harassed –…
For the third year in a row, state lawmakers will be pushing for an official marijuana DUI limit, to curb what they say is an epidemic of stoned drivers that will only get worse with the passage of Amendment 64. Senator Steve King, a Western Slope Republican, is again sponsoring…
