Yesterday, the board of health considered lowering medical marijuana license fees for indigent patients — and wound up eliminating them for those who qualify. Problem is, the criteria used to determine indigency leaves out many people in need — including AIDS-patient Damien LaGoy, who says he can’t afford to renew…
Back in August, medical marijuana advocates protested when Governor Bill Ritter proposed using $9 million in MMJ fees to help plug a budget hole. No doubt this topic will rise again at 9:30 a.m. this morning, when a board of health public hearing will address the question of lowering license…
Coloradans can use marijuana medicinally and purchase firearms — but due to conflicts between state and federal laws, they can’t do both at the same time. As first reported by the Vail Daily and FaceTheState.com, to buy a new gun in Colorado requires completing a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and…
No denying that medical marijuana regulations remain confusing, especially given that even many communities with established rules are already thinking about changing them. Example: Denver City Council’s efforts to establish limits on home MMJ grows. With that in mind, councilwoman Judy Montero has created a massive compendium of info she’s…
This dispensary has closed. From the outside, ALCC LCC is an unassuming brick building on an edge of downtown mostly frequented by the homeless and yuppies living in the nearby modern condos. I’ve driven past it several times on my way to Coors Field this summer and never really given…
At this hour, SAFER’s Mason Tvert is slated to hold a press conference at the Denver City and County Building to highlight his pro-marijuana outfit’s first-ever voter guides — and to bash Mayor John Hickenlooper for what Tvert sees as his backwards stance on weed. But at least Hickenlooper’s addressed…
Pot brownies are so 2009. Now you can find THC infused in nearly every product imaginable, from marijuana cheesecakes to marijuana teas to marijuana hummus. It’s not too surprising, then, that you can now also medicate through the cold, refreshing taste of a soda…
It was just last July when Westword marijuana reviewer William Breathes was interviewed by CNN about Denver’s medical cannabis scene — and even though MMJ isn’t supposed to be addictive, the network appears to be hooked on the subject. How else to explain the latest report by correspondent Jim Spellman,…
The arrest of Grand Junction’s Jack Duke for allegedly teaching his six- and seven-year old daughters how to smoke marijuana took place against the backdrop of a 6-1 decision by GJ’s city council to ban dispensaries within town limits as of January 1. Local dispensary owners are reportedly considering a…
This dispensary has closed. In “Mile Highs and Lows,” Westword’s William Breathes offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our updated dispensary list here, and continue reading for Breathes’s…
Castle Rock’s Plants 4 Life has been fighting attempts to shutter it since last year. Recently, Rob Corry, attorney for the dispensary, issued a notice to sue the city if officials didn’t back off an order to close the business on December 31. But the dispensary’s owner has another strategy…
The effort to put a medical marijuana dispensary ban on the El Paso County ballot was successful — and MMJ advocate Brian Cook has readied a TV campaign to fight it. But earlier this week, a coalition of lawyers that includes Jessica Corry took a different tack, filing a lawsuit…
Yesterday, we shared photos from the Women’s Marijuana Movement event in support of California’s Proposition 19, which would legalize cannabis for adult use in that state. Today, we offer more shots courtesy of Eva Enns, who organized the Denver get-together, as well as similar assemblies in more than twenty locations…
Earlier today, we previewed a noon assembly in which members of the Women’s Marijuana Movement supported Proposition 19, a California measure that would legalize cannabis for adult use in the state. The event was one of more than twenty taking placing across the country today. Look below to see photos…
I overheard someone call our fine publication Weedword not too long ago, referencing the eight-plus pages of medical marijuana ads in the back of our print edition. Funny, and also true. As Jeremy Peters points out in today’s New York Times, that greening of advertisements has also meant more green…
Proposition 19, the measure to tax and regulate cannabis for adult use in California, which initially looked doomed, is now registering more than 50 percent support in one major poll — and Eva Enns of the Women’s Marijuana Movement wants to build on that momentum with events today in Denver…
Under Colorado’s MMJ laws, patients aren’t supposed to buy pot until 35 days after they’ve submitted their paperwork, because that’s how long the state has to reject/return applications. In the past, however, most dispensaries would sell to patients before then because everyone believed they were covered under Amendment 20’s “alternative…
In “Mile Highs and Lows,” Westword offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars or a dope dealer’s college dorm room. See our updated dispensary list here, and keep reading for William Breathes’s review of 14er Holistics in…
Has the war between intoxicants formally begun? The California Beer and Beverage Distributors (CBBD), a trade association, recently made headlines for donating $10,000 to oppose Proposition 19, the California marijuana-legalization measure to be voted on in November…
Last week, Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente decried the health department’s rejection of a petition to add post traumatic stress order to conditions that can be treated by medical marijuana. Along the way, he specifically cited Kevin Grimsinger, a veteran who’d become the poster child for the campaign. Problem is, Grimsinger…
This weekend’s Plant Medicine Expo, featuring a debate moderated by Law & Order Special Victims Unit star Richard Belzer, was a “historic event not only for the state of Colorado, but for the nation and the world,” says Cannabis Therapy Institute’s Laura Kriho, a member of the expo’s advisory board…
In January, we told you about Plants 4 Life, a Castle Rock dispensary the town attempted to shut down via an emergency ordinance despite granting it a license to operate. Now, attorney Rob Corry has sent the city formal notice that, sans a resolution, he’ll file suit, with damage claims…
