The Denver Post has labeled Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program, a “drug-war soldier” who didn’t get the memo that the battle was over. Medical marijuana advocates are calling him the leader of a “war on patients,” since behind the scenes he’s helping…
The owner of Footprints Health & Wellness was confused by the rationale used by Jefferson County when it tried to shutter his dispensary, as he conceded in an interview last week. That makes sense to his attorney, Lauren Davis. She says it took three lawyers, one of whom is a…
Senator Chris Romer withdrew his initial bill to regulate the state’s medical marijuana industry in favor of one with a narrower focus — specifically the relationship between doctors and MM patients. Yesterday, attorney Rob Corry sent his line-by-line dissection of the package to legislators — yet Romer is still tinkering…
Attorney Rob Corry has significant issues with Senator Chris Romer’s legislation concerning the relationship between doctors and medical marijuana patients. Less critical is Dr. Paul Bregman, the medical director of the CannaMed USA doctor referral service. Bregman actually believes the senator “is on the right track” even though the doc’s…
Earlier this month, we told you about medical marijuana attorney Rob Corry’s shredding of Senator Chris Romer’s draft bill to regulate the medical marijuana industry — an action that predated Romer’s decision to withdraw the legislation. Since then, Representative Tom Massey has taken on the chore of assembling a bill…
Ever since Centennial’s dispensary ban was shot down in Arapahoe District Court a month ago, Colorado medical marijuana operations faced with similar moratoriums in other locales have refused to go quietly into the night. The latest dispute is brewing in Jefferson County. Last week, county commissioners there enacted a six-month…
Members of the medical marijuana industry frequently cringe at the way their community is portrayed in the mainstream media, and that’s led to the development of homegrown news operations intended to provide a more accurate portrait of the issue. A prime example of this literally grassroots movement: Angela Macdonald of…
What do former pro football players do once their careers are over? The rise of the medical marijuana industry in Colorado provides a possible answer owing to one simple fact: A helluva lot of athletes love weed. Unfortunately, though, there can still be complications — like the ones currently embroiling…
Moments ago, we published the latest in our series of “Mile Highs and Lows” dispensary reviews — a critique of Apothecary of Colorado by William Breathes. But this piece is only the beginning of our coverage — and one of the best ways to find more of it is by…
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…
Legislators such as Representative Tom Massey are eager to rein in Colorado’s booming medical marijuana industry — but despite their best efforts, word has gotten out to Weed Nation that Colorado, and specifically Denver, are pot-friendly places. Take this recent post on RollItUp.org by a guy who calls himself “Mr…
Hardly a day goes by without Mason Tvert, head of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), going after some individual or institution standing in the way of legalizing marijuana use for adults in Colorado and beyond. Still, his latest target is a surprise: Starbucks, the ubiquitous peddler of a highly…
Brian Vicente, executive director of Sensible Colorado and co-chair of a new organization called Sensible Patient and Provider Coalition, is understandably pleased by the results of a new ABC/Washington Post poll showing that 81 percent of respondents supported legalizing marijuana for medical use. “People are really leading on this issue,”…
At last — a defense against readers who aren’t wowed by Westword’s marijuana jokes: An article filled with them is cited in a petition for Writ of Certiorari with the Colorado Supreme Court filed yesterday in the case of medical marijuana caregiver Stacy Clendenin. Back in 2006, authorities raided Clendenin’s…
Yesterday, we told you about an alleged medical marijuana robbery that was misreported — and the anger of a dispensary owner over what he saw as sensationalized coverage of the weed industry in general. Last night, an ideal example of this phenomenon appeared on Channel 31 — a hyped-up…
Forget California dreamin’. These days Mason Tvert, the media-savvy founder of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), has been dreaming of Washington State — where the good city of Seattle just rolled out a citywide marijuana measure that Tvert’s been pushing Denver to implement for years. In a letter recently…
Attorney Rob Corry, one of the most aggressive medical marijuana advocates on the current scene, isn’t about to ease up as the Colorado legislature prepares to consider legislation on the subject. His latest gambit? Earlier today, he sent an open-records request to the Colorado Department of Health relating to revenue…
Blogs from Denver, (mostly) about Denver. Over at the Broncos-centric Mile High Report site, enjoy the game day thread documenting the San Diego Chargers’ latest playoffs collapse, this time against the New York Jets. Inspired final comment: An illustration of Nelson from The Simpsons saying, “Ha Ha!” Senator Chris Romer…
This weekend’s medical marijuana arrests in Brighton, which cops describe as a pot “assembly line” involving a chiropractor, his wife and a caretaker, is only the latest incident playing into the hands of law enforcement types who want the sort of dispensary shut-down likely to be prompted under a bill…
Remember that scene in Fantasia where Mickey Mouse, as the sorcerer’s apprentice, is besieged by a never-ending army of brooms inundating him with pail upon pail of water? That’s sort of like what’s happening these days at the vital statistics department of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment…
This week, Senator Chris Romer confirmed that he’s ditched most of the elements in his long-in-the-works medical marijuana proposal in favor of a streamlined bill focusing on establishing what he calls “a meaningful doctor-patient relationship.” Meanwhile, Representative Tom Massey, a Republican from Poncha Springs, plans to introduce a measure modeled…
The fight over medical marijuana in the state legislature is ramping up, with Republicans being perceived as the group most resistant to policies that allow the proliferation of dispensaries across the state. An exception to that rule is the Independence Institute’s Jessica Peck Corry, who looks at marijuana policy from…
