On Monday, Senator Chris Romer argued in favor of requiring those under 21 to do more in order to qualify for a medical marijuana card than those over that age — and he also predicted that there’d be a backlash and a potential dispensary ban if members of the medical…
Update, 12:34 p.m.: Channel 31 reporter Julie Hayden has responded to an interview request on this subject. Look below the original item to read what she has to say. In an age of shrinking newsroom resources, media organizations are borrowing from each other more than ever before — and that’s…
While lawmakers hammer out regulations on Colorado’s nascent yet booming medical marijuana industry, an even bigger political showdown is looming in California, where voters will decide whether to legalize marijuana altogether in the November election. While marijuana activists have been pushing for legalization for decades, some of those associated with…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’ announcement that he would be joining in a lawsuit with a dozen other AGs across the country to challenge the constitutionality of the new health-care bill was cheered by some political observers and jeered by others — with members of the latter group casting around…
Senator Chris Romer feels that many of those under age 21 who have medical marijuana cards obtained these licenses to toke under dubious circumstances — and he wants to make it harder for them to do so in the future. However, such distinctions between patients’ ages didn’t make it into…
So you think you’re a connoisseur, what with your cans of Beluga, Kobe steaks and stash of 1998 Dom Perignon? Think again if you haven’t gotten your hands on cannabis caviar, a new kind of top-shelf marijuana popping up at Colorado dispensaries that sells for the astronomical price of $1,400…
The medical marijuana industry in Colorado has been booming since at least last year, with plenty of ganjapreneurs coming up with concepts intended to help them grab a piece of the pot profits. But despite the competition, Chad Bardon thinks he has a unique approach — one that revolves around…
Our “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary reviews, recently referenced in the Wall Street Journal, are a weekly feature on The Latest Word. Our most recent entry? The Wildflower Seed tastes Fresh Baked Dispensary, which specializes in edibles, not smokables. But for those who prefer other delivery methods, we’ve also updated…
As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred look at what goes…
You can always count on SAFER head Mason Tvert to defend the honor of marijuana. Note that he’s previously praised a study showing teen toking is on the rise but binge drinking is falling and advocated a boycott of Starbucks, allegedly because the coffee titan supports the anti-pot Colorado Drug…
Early this year, reports that the city had issued more than 390 sales tax licenses to medical marijuana dispensaries led many to proclaim Denver “Cannabis Capital USA.” But once city council passed new dispensary regulations on January 11 requiring all current dispensary owners to apply for a new dispensary license…
As of two days ago, the latest version of HB 1284, the bill to regulate the medical marijuana industry, looked something like this. But yesterday’s hearing before the House judiciary committee resulted in a number of significant changes to the legislation. Many of these alterations were good, says Brian Vicente,…
Update, 4:00 p.m.: Representative Sal Pace’s amendment relating to medical marijuana and post-traumatic stress disorder has been defeated, and the Marijuana Policy Project’s Steve Fox isn’t happy about it. Look for the new information after the original item below: At today’s judiciary committee hearing about HB 1284, a bill that…
Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Jeffrey Sweetin has been making an effort to set the record straight on his agency’s approach to medical marijuana, most notably in a wide-ranging interview with Westword’s Joel Warner. And members of the medical marijuana community — even those nervous about HB 1284, the regulatory…
Yesterday, we published an extended interview with DEA special agent Jeffrey Sweetin, a lightning rod for controversy about medical marijuana. Predictably, some of his assertions about the DEA’s actions troubled Jessica Corry, an attorney and medical marijuana advocate. But along with her criticisms, Corry, the wife of fellow attorney/advocate Rob…
The booming medical marijuana industry in Colorado has made a noise loud enough to be heard in the newsroom of the Wall Street Journal, which looks at the business of pot in this square state on page one today. “In Mile High City, Weed Sparks Up a Counterculture Clash” focuses…
A new “Mile Highs and Lows” review has just been published: In it, William Breathes checks out Pride in Medicine, finding the joint’s products to be worth the coughing fits they cause. In addition, we’ve updated Westword’s dispensary directory, which delivers the latest about medical marijuana businesses throughout the area…
This dispensary has closed. As Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others feel like a dope dealer’s college dorm room. To help keep them all straight, Westword will be offering a no-holds-barred…
On Tuesday, we told you about a lawsuit over the rules pertaining to ballot initiatives that’s supported by some strange bedfellows — among them the Independence Institute’s Jon Caldara and Mason Tvert, the marijuana advocate who fronts SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation). Tvert says he isn’t the driving force…
Yesterday, reporter Joel Warner told you about Araphaoe County’s decision to return two pounds of marijuana from Colin Olmstead more than a year after it was seized. The ganja was being driven to a dispensary at the time. The handover took place yesterday afternoon, and Timothy Tipton of Cannabis Health…
Jeffrey Sweetin, special agent in charge of the Denver field division of the DEA, lately hasn’t been too fond of the mainstream media. Much of it has to do with how reporters covered the case of Chris Bartkowicz, a Highlands Ranch man who was arrested by DEA agents last month…
TV-news coverage of medical marijuana often veers toward the sensational — and a story on Channel 4 serves as a perfect example. Last night, the station reported that two people in Boulder, Raghv Sharma and Benjamin Gennis, were busted for driving under the influence of marijuana, with Sharma specifically noting…
