With the passing of HB 1099 yesterday, which creates a soil remediation study using hemp as the filtering agent, Colorado could be the first state in the nation to grow industrial hemp since the late 1930s. But passing the bill was just the first obstacle. Actually implementing the plan might…
Representative Beth McCann’s proposal to shift millions in medical marijuana patient registry fees from the Colorado Department of Health and Environment to the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, failed to pass through the Senate today. But the controversy it started regarding the nearly $10 million surplus is far from over…
Monday was the deadline for 25 medical marijuana centers near schools targeted in a second wave of closure-threat letters from U.S. Attorney John Walsh to shut their doors — and all of them did. A third wave is coming, promises Walsh’s spokesman, who now stresses his boss’s efforts to protect…
Last night, as One Colorado’s Jace Woodrum noted during a talk with supporters, GOP leaders in the House sacrificed dozens of other measures in order to kill a civil unions bill. Prominent among them was the controversial THC driving bill, a version of which died last year. The result was…
With the Colorado General Assembly’s regular session slated to end tomorrow, three marijuana related bills are still floating around with the possibility of passing. Below, we’ve put together a quick update about each piece of legislation and its status…
At this writing, the fate of HB 1358, a Representative Beth McCann-sponsored bill that would shift millions from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s medical marijuana registry fund to the financially strapped Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, is still unknown with just two days left in the current legislative…
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? The Official High Times Cannabis Cookbook…
We recently shared a video of exploding hash — a chunk of what I was told was in-house butane shatter oil that flared up like a flamethrower when it hit my titanium nail and sent a cloud of stringy, black particles of tar into the air. See it below. Earlier…
For the last three years, staffers at the Clinic have raised money for theNational Multiple Sclerosis Society — outreach that emphasizes a growing public acceptance and interest in using medical marijuana to treat the disease. This Saturday at the annual MS Walk Denver in City Park, the dispensary will present…
For being so out in the open, the Dandelion, located in Boulder, is relatively low-key. No neon green paint on the walls or massive pot leaves on its signs. Instead, the shop fits well with its funky off-Pearl Street surroundings…
HB 1358, a bill that would shift $7.7 million in medical marijuana registry fund money to the struggling Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division, passed the House Appropriations committee today, paving the way for a floor vote. The Representative Beth McCann-sponsored measure upsets activists, who say the money should be used to…
Shocker: The Partnership at Drugfree.org conducted a study on teen marijuana use, and the results are not positive. Equally big shocker: Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, who never misses an opportunity to criticize medical marijuana, is using the report to climb on the anti-cannabis soapbox again…
Yesterday afternoon, the Colorado Senate approved Senator Steve King’s THC driving bill by an 18-17 vote thanks to the support of Senator Nancy Spence, who’d recommended additional study for a similar measure that fell short of passage last year. Now, the proposal is headed to the Colorado House, and NORML,…
Even as Senator Steve King’s proposed THC DUI bill is being debated this afternoonpassed through to the state House, two other state legislators are making one last push for their separate marijuana-related proposals with a little more than a week left before Colorado’s General Assembly adjourns. The subjects: funding the…
Senator Steve King’s proposed THC driving bill is headed to the state senate floor, probably tomorrow. To clear its path, language that would have established a zero tolerance policy for all Schedule I and II drugs was stripped out Friday. As such, the proposal is very similar to one shelved…
Last Saturday at the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup, I sat in on panel of experts discussing the pros and cons of smoking concentrates extracted by using solvents such as butane and isopropyl alcohol. Little did I realize that only days later, I would experience the risks that come from…
Last Friday, the Cannabis Alliance for Regulation and Education began collecting signatures for Initiative 70, the third legalization measure to be proposed for the November elections. We caught up with spokesman Rico Colibri, who broke down his proposal and why he feels it is Colorado’s best option for ending cannabis…
This dispensary has closed. I tried with 420 Wellness. I really did. I had heard good things about some of the shop’s strains — and one of them took second place at the High Times Medical Cannabis Cup last weekend. But in the end, my experience with the shop went…
The Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division is in dire financial straits. However, Representative Beth McCann of Denver says she has a plan for medical marijuana patients to bail out the MMED using leftover money they paid to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment…
Could as many as 175,000 Colorado citizens lose their jobs based on a single court case? That’s the contention of attorney Michael Evans, who believes every state-legal medical marijuana patient would be at risk of dismissal depending on the outcome of an appeal involving Brandon Coats, a paralyzed man and…
Around 190 patients caught up in the physician assistant debacle last winter have appealed the decision by the Colorado Department of Health and Environment to deny their medical marijuana registry application. But they haven’t been going well from the patients’ perspective…
On Valentine’s Day, all Fort Collins dispensaries closed as the result of a retail ban passed the previous November. But MMJ patients and industry types aren’t meekly accepting this verdict. Following on unsuccessful court challenge, they’ve banded together to collect signatures for a new proposal to make MMCs legal again…
