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…
Yesterday, we heard from Law & Order Special Victims Unit star Richard Belzer about his participation in this weekend’s Plant Medicine Expo and Healthcare Provider Conference. Belzer stressed that the event’s focus would be on the medical uses of marijuana, not the weed lifestyle — and expo organizer Seth Ginsberg,…
Tonight, several medical marijuana attorneys host a fundraiser for Boulder DA Stan Garnett, who’s challenging Attorney General/MMJ-law hater John Suthers. Garnett’s now publicly criticizing a ruling forbidding marijuana grower Chris Bartkowicz from using a medical defense in his high-profile case. In a release, Garnett also urges Suthers to intercede with…
This dispensary has closed. 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…
Richard Belzer, a TV mainstay thanks to the Law & Order franchise (he’s currently a regular on Special Victims Unit), got his start as a standup comic. But don’t expect lotsa chuckles at the debate he’ll moderate at this weekend’s Plant Medicine Expo & Healthcare Provider Conference. Because he’s very…
High profile medical marijuana grower Chris Bartkowicz won’t be able to use the state’s medical marijuana laws as part of his defense in federal court, a judge ruled yesterday. Bartkowicz was arrested last February after showing off his grow operation to a local television news crew…
You can find just about everything you want at Mile High Marketplace, that collection of kitsch north of downtown Denver at I-76 and 88th Avenue that’s long been a local institution (and in our hearts, will always be known by its old name, the Mile High Flea Market). Just about…
Today’s rally for Chris Bartkowicz, who faces sixty years in prison for growing medical marijuana, took place at the federal courthouse prior to a hearing that’s ongoing at this writing. Westword’s Boyd Fletcher is there and will offer a complete report. Meanwhile, page down to see his photos from the…
Members of Colorado’s health department held a hearing before deciding not to make Tourette’s Syndrome a condition approved for medical marijuana treatment. But that wasn’t the case with a petition involving post-traumatic stress disorder — and Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente, who later this morning will lead a support rally for…
