This dispensary has closed. Whereas the original Native Roots occupies almost a quarter-floor of a high rise in Denver, its Lakewood location is sandwiched between other stores in a small strip center next to a McDonald’s on Wadsworth. Fitting, as Native Roots is one of a handful of dispensaries not…
Update by William Breathes: It is starting to look like there never was an opportunity for public comment on the proposed digital connection between law enforcement and the Colorado medical marijuana patient registry. State officials are only able to point to vague language in state statute for authorizing this program…
The medical marijuana patient registry saw an increase in patients for five straight months through April 2012, bringing the total number of Coloradans with medical marijuana cards to 96,709. According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the registry is still 32,000 names below its all-time high…
New update below: The campaign supporting Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, treated news that Weld County DA Ken Buck had taken a high-profile role with Smart Colorado, an organization devoted to defeating the measure, as a cause to celebrate, portraying him as a polarizing figure, particularly for…
This dispensary has closed. I first heard about Riverside Wellness a few weeks ago, after burglars had broken in and stolen $8 in cash. The staff seemed to take it in stride, showing a sense of humor by pointing out that the money was stolen from a “karma jar” –…
Yesterday, the Denver City Council’s Businesses, Workforce and Sustainability Committee voted in favor of an ordinance that would ban medical marijuana advertising within 1,000 feet of schools, daycares, parks and rec centers. It’s a proposal Cannabis Business Alliance executive director Shawn Coleman actively supports as a way of preventing larger,…
Representatives from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and Colorado Bureau of Investigations will meet today to discuss linking the medical marijuana patient registry with law enforcement computers. Not that you can hear what they have to say: A spokesman stresses that it is not a public meeting…
Amendment 64 is known as the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, but its provisions go beyond allowing adults to use cannabis recreationally. The initiative also directs the legislature to “enact legislation governing the cultivation, processing and sale of industrial hemp” by July 2014 — language that’s gotten the attention of…
Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? GearBox stash box…
Last month, we told you about a Medical Marijuana Industry Group-proposed citywide ban on outdoor MMJ advertising that was being kicked around by Denver City Council. That idea didn’t materialize, but a bill banning advertising near schools and parks is moving forward…
Last year, marijuana activists asked the Colorado Supreme Court to hear the appeal of a precedent-setting case involving MMJ patient Jason Beinor, who was fired from his job for failing a drug test. Now, by a 3-2 vote, the Supremes have declined to take up the matter — a decision…
Every few months for the last four or five years, I throw my back out doing something dumb — like hanging artwork, falling on a catwalk while turned around talking to someone on a snowboard, or mowing my lawn. The most recent cause of injury? Dancing at a wedding. What…
The Colorado Bureau of Investigations and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment are tentatively set to meet next week to discuss a computer system that tracks Colorado medical marijuana patients for law enforcement. The Medical Marijuana Technology Project came to light earlier this month when it was mentioned…
Moving from one location to another can be stressful and often means prioritizing what to bring with you and what to leave behind. According to Delaware police, Andre Dismuke didn’t want to leave behind the amazing cannabis we have in Colorado just because he was moving to the First State…
Rumors were flying over the weekend about a raid or some other type of law enforcement action going down at the Silver Lizard, a shop we reviewed last week. We’ve checked with the owners, who assure us there was no raid and the shop is still open for business…
In Colorado, the debate about the positive attributes of medical marijuana has been going on for years — but it’s relatively new in Arizona, home to our sister paper, the Phoenix New Times, which just published the Ray Stern feature “Marijuana is real medicine for a long list of ills.”…
In 2010, Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente petitioned the Colorado Department of Public Health to add post-traumatic-stress disorder to the list of conditions that can be treated by medical marijuana. This effort not only failed, but it led to a public-relations disaster over untruths spoken by its symbolic backer. However, Vicente…
Both Pitkin and Summit County are finally getting around to making laws governing medical marijuana shops. This move comes more than two years after the first medical marijuana centers opened in the counties…
Medical marijuana caregiver Josh Jones was recently acquitted after not one but two trips to court in relation to what law enforcers counted as 140 plants — a figure Jones’s attorney, Rob Corry, questions. However, Corry has no doubt the prosecution of his client was an enormous waste of taxpayer…
This dispensary has closed. Originally in Five Points on Welton Street, the Silver Lizard preemptively moved to its current location last January because of its proximity to a school. Though the move undid all the staff’s work on Welton, it seems to have worked out for the best, and the…
Dispensaries that were operating in towns that have enacted local bans have had the option of moving within their existing city limits or to a new municipality that allows medical marijuana businesses, as dispensaries in Fort Collins have done. But centers that shut their doors after receiving letters from the…
Tonight, Neill Franklin, a former Baltimore narcotics cop who’s now the executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, aka LEAP, will be speaking in Denver (details below) about ending marijuana prohibition in Colorado. If that happened, he believes, “it would be very significant in reuniting police and the community again.”…
