Amendment 64 allowed communities to opt out of retail pot industry, and plenty of them have done so. As we’ve reported, weed sales have been prohibited in far more places than they’re allowed. But Pueblo isn’t balking at this new industry. Far from it: The city called on an A64…
Dear Stoner: My grower said his greenhouse in Weld County got flooded, and he offered to let me take some plants home if I help him clean up. He said the place smells like manure from the floodwaters. My question: Is the stuff safe to smoke? Because I sure don’t…
In her coverage of Colorado’s early steps toward launching a hemp industry (including last week’s post about the first U.S. hemp harvest in more than fifty years), Melanie Asmar has referred to the plant as “marijuana’s sober stepsister” because it has almost none of the psychoactive ingredient that makes users…
We’ve run a few articles about pot and soldiers so far in Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule, and most have the same theme: Marijuana makes you crazy and unfit for duty. But this 1914 article from the Akron Weekly Pioneer Press brings the anti-Hispanic, racial undertones of the early anti-marijuana movement…
John Hickenlooper was one of the most visible opponents of Amendment 64, a measure to allow adults 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana. But since A64’s passage, he’s done a major turnaround, agreeing to appear at a fundraiser for Proposition AA, which would set tax…
It didn’t hit me until I drove into the cracked-concrete parking lot of the squat, brick building on Kipling that I’d been there before. Two years ago, actually, when what is now Infinite Wellness was Green Meadows Wellness — a dumpy shop with a skimpy selection, green kief and mid-grade…
Dear Stoner: So last week you said Denver was a pretty tolerant place to light up outside of sporting events, and then pot lawyer Rob Corry gets arrested at Coors Field. What’s up with that? Para Noid Dear Noid: Rob Corry’s arrest on September 25 is a good example of…
Creative commons/Matt Wright.Yesterday marked the deadline for Colorado’s 271 cities and towns and 64 counties to decide whether they want to ban recreational cannabis businesses and sales — and it is starting to look like Denver will be ganja ground zero. Already, four of the ten largest cities in Colorado…
Update below: Attorney Rob Corry still isn’t talking about his recent public pot smoking bust. But he’s got lots to say about No on Proposition AA, a campaign fighting a marijuana tax measure up for vote in November. He’s already helped organize joint giveaway rallies in Denver and Boulder. Now,…
America’s first (known) hemp harvest in more than fifty years began this month in southeastern Colorado. This past spring, following last year’s passage of Amendment 64, which legalized small amounts of marijuana for adults and paved the way for industrial hemp production, farmer Ryan Loflin planted 55 acres of marijuana’s…
Westword cover story subject Jenny Kush’s favorite color was purple. So it was only fitting that her friends and family — draped in purple T-shirts — gathered last night to remember Kush, a cannabis activist killed by a drunk driver, by the purple flowers on the west steps of the…
Every now and then on our searches for Cannabis Time Capsule artifacts, we find news briefs too short to post about on their own. But they are too good to go unread, so we’ve compiled a handful of our favorites below. Read on to find out the explanation for psychedelic…
The recent floods in Boulder had one positive effect: The University of Colorado football game was canceled last weekend. I know it’s selfish of me, but Boulder is much, much easier to get around without thousands of people masquerading as fans for a subpar college football team and using it…
Earlier this week, we reported about the war of words between supporters and opponents of Proposition AA, which would set tax rates for recreational pot sales. Attorney Rob Corry, who thinks the tax levels are too high (a point made at not one but two free-joint rallies this month), has…
Dear Stoner: We’re flying in for the Eagles game next weekend, and I want to get stoned before I go in. What’s my over-under on that? Green & Black Dear Fans of a Lesser Team: This question has come up a few times, actually. Yes, you can get stoned before…
Last week, Telluride officially approved sales of recreational cannabis, joining a majority of other tourism-reliant ski towns around the state that have given an okay to the ganja. Telluride took one of the easiest routes to retail-weed approval possible, with the city council voting in an application and regulatory system…
In reporting “The life and tragic death of cannabis advocate Jenny Kush,” our feature article about a cannabis activist and Internet radio host killed by a drunk driver, we heard a lot of good stories and kind words that we just couldn’t quite squeeze in. Thankfully, there’s always room on…
Opponents of Proposition AA, intended to set tax rates on recreational marijuana sales, have gotten a lot of attention for showy events like Monday’s free-joint giveaway on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. But polls earlier this year showed 77 percent of those surveyed support such taxes, and Joe Megyesy, communications director…
Last week’s feature on Jenny Kush, a cannabis activist killed by a drunk driver, brought to light just one of the 1,342 impaired-driving arrests in Colorado made over a nineteen-day period around Labor Day weekend. Figuring out how many people are caught driving stoned is especially important here, since doing…
Yesterday’s free-joint giveaway on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, staged by opponents of marijuana tax measure Proposition AA, didn’t include Vice President Joe Biden, who’d been invited by co-organizer Rob Corry to take part in between tours of areas devastated by recent flooding. The Biden angle, and the latest rally, has…
The second free-joint giveaway sponsored by opponents to Proposition AA, the marijuana taxation measure on November’s ballot, took place beginning at 11 a.m. today on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall. And according to photographer Brandon Marshall, who snapped the images on view below, it was hardly a mob scene. While he…
As we’ve reported, a protest against marijuana taxation measure Proposition AA is scheduled to take place at 11 a.m. today on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, complete with free joints for attendees. The event, and an invitation for Vice President Joe Biden to participate, has already come under fire from the…
