Tension between medical-marijuana businesses and the feds ratcheted up two weeks ago when Drug Enforcement Administration agents rolled through Full Spectrum Laboratories, a Denver marijuana testing facility, seizing all pot samples they could find — all while the lab’s owners were at the Capitol testifying against a medical-marijuana bill. Betty…
In the beginning, the medical marijuana bill being assembled by Representative Tom Massey was popularly known as the “law-enforcement bill.” Not anymore. The measure put forward by Massey this week (one co-sponsored by Representative Ken Summers, interviewed today in this space), no longer has Colorado Attorney General John Suthers’s seal…
This week, a new medical marijuana bill was introduced, and while activists at the Cannabis Therapy Institute see it and an earlier measure about doctor-patient relationships as largely contemptible, advocates Matt Brown and Brian Vicente see promise amid the problems — although Vicente has announced plans for a medical marijuana…
Senator Chris Romer’s bill about the relationship between doctors and medical marijuana patients rolls on — and advocates such as Matt Brown of Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation don’t see it as especially onerous. To put it mildly, that view isn’t shared by the folks at the Cannabis Therapy Institute…
When medical marijuana advocate Matt Brown spoke to Westword yesterday about Representative Tom Massey’s new bill to regulate the industry, he hadn’t seen the final document — just a draft from late last week. And after perusing the latest product, he was presently surprised. “It’s a lot better than I…
The latest addition to our roster of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary reviews — William Breathes’s critique of Delta 9 Alternative Medicine (formerly Delta 9 Caretakers). And if his take makes you hungry for more information, sample Westword’s newly updated dispensary directory. Your fine dining experience begins by clicking here…
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…
Yesterday, we offered a sneak preview of a medical marijuana ballot initiative assembled by the advocacy group Sensible Colorado. That amendment will be formally made public by Sensible Colorado executive director Brian Vicente during an 11 a.m. press event on the west steps of the Capitol. But even as Vicente…
State Senator Chris Romer (D-Buzz Kill Central) and Representative Tom Massey (R-Hiding in the Capitol Somewhere) teamed up today to introduce the latest attempt to reign in Colorado’s medical marijuana industry, a bill the lawmakers say would protect patients’ access to marijuana while forcing providers to be licensed by the…
Representative Tom Massey’s bill to regulate the medical marijuana industry — previewed in this blog based on comments from a knowledgeable source and a second item containing insight from advocate Matt Brown — hasn’t even been made public yet; Massey will do so at a 1:30 p.m. event. But already,…
A little over an hour ago, we posted a blog offering a sneak preview of Representative Tom Massey’s bill to regulate the medical marijuana industry. Now, more details from another insider: Matt Brown, frontman for Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation and co-chair with Brian Vicente of Sensible Patient and Provider…
The medical marijuana community has been filled with a mix of anticipation and dread in regard to the contents of a measure being assembled by Representative Tom Massey intended to regulate the industry. Many fear what’s become known as the law-enforcement bill will limit the number of patients per caregiver…
Boulder district attorney Stan Garnett is the rare public official who’s willing to speak plainly about marijuana, medical or otherwise. Note that way back in September, he wrote that “legalizing marijuana entirely would be the simplest way to resolve the tension between the Constitution and the Criminal statutes,” and he…
Update, 1:10 p.m., February 1: The Colorado Senate has approved Senator Chris Romer’s medical marijuana bill regarding the doctor-patient relationship 34-1. Read Matt Brown’s take on the measure below: Like many other prominent figures in the medical marijuana community, Matt Brown, frontman for Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulation and co-chair…
Christian Thurstone, a psychiatrist with board certifications in addiction treatment and child and adolescent care, has seen plenty of news reports about why medical marijuana is a good thing — but precious few about the potential harm it can do. That’s why he wrote a provocative piece for the Denver…
In a blog published earlier this month, we told you about Greenway University, a “medical marijuana training and education institute” that was slated to stage a two-day seminar at the Westin Tabor Center downtown. Those sessions were smashes, drawing more than 200 people, precipitating the scheduling of another couple of…
Cities and towns all over Colorado are flummoxed over how to regulate the state’s booming medical marijuana industry. Several have instituted moratoriums on new dispensaries until they can hammer out some rules; even more have at least considered ways to slow the industry’s growth. In Boulder, a city with a…
Last November, we told you about a lawsuit filed against the City of Centennial on behalf of CannaMart, a dispensary shuttered the previous month after the imposition of a ban within town limits. On December 30, Arapahoe County District Court Judge Christopher Cross ruled in CannaMart’s favor — and just…
New on the Latest Word: A fresh entry in our series of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary reviews — a critique of Nederland’s Tea Alchemy by The Wildflower Seed — with a bonus take on Grateful Meds thrown in for no extra charge. Moreover, there’s plenty of additional information about…
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…
Yesterday, Betty Aldworth, director of outreach for Full Spectrum Laboratories, a marijuana testing facility, was at the State Capitol to watch lab co-owner Bob Winniki testify about Senator Chris Romer’s just-introduced bill dealing with the relationship between doctors and medical marijuana patients. But before Winniki could speak, the twosome received…
The great Colorado debate over medical marijuana finally reached the gold dome of the State Capitol on Wednesday when Democratic Senator Chris Romer introduced the first of two proposed bills dealing with the issue. More than 150 people, including a large number of disabled medical marijuana patients, turned out before…
