The presidential contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney will likely be very tight in Colorado, a key swing state — and a close vote is also expected for Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act. But could a big turnout for the latter undermine Obama in the state?…
For the past several months, the Denver City Council has been debating outdoor medical marijuana advertising. The main question: Should it be prohibited near schools or banned entirely? Now, a ban seems to have the momentum, and could be approved in the next several weeks…
In Grand Junction circa mid July, advocates for Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, launched an electronic billboard message featuring televangelist Pat Robertson, who’d spoken positively about the measure. Robertson subsequently asked that the message be removed, so it’s now been changed to feature an even more famous…
The tension between state medical marijuana laws, which allow patient use, and federal regulations that criminalize all pot has existed for years, with occasional court rulings — like the 2011 conviction of Highlands Ranch MMJ grower Chris Bartkowicz — touching on the contradiction. But a just-issued decision in Arapahoe County…
Last February, when Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, was approved for the November ballot, backers of several other pot-related measures, including Initiative 70, Legalize2012’s proposal and the Relief for the Possession of Cannabis Act, were trying to duplicate this feat. But at the Monday deadline set by…
Medical marijuana advocates say THC is especially effective when it comes to reducing nausea for people who have cancer and are undergoing chemotherapy. Now, The Clinic and Flower of Life are offering a way of delivering that substance free of charge to medical marijuana patients on chemo — with the…
The office of U.S. Attorney John Walsh has announced that it’s sent closure-threat letters to ten dispensaries within 1,000 feet of schools. This action represents the third wave of such missives: The first, in January, targeted 23 medical marijuana centers, while the second, in March, numbered 25. But when asked…
Yesterday, we shared a new report from the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area citing more than seventy examples of medical marijuana from Colorado being diverted for illegal purposes, with RMHIDTA director Tom Gorman arguing that passage of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, would make the…
Like the working-class neighborhood where it’s based, At Home Remedies is more function than fashion. The mudroom-turned-waiting room at the front of the house is furnished with scrolled antique furniture with a loud, gaudy and awesome 1970s-style white floral print, and AstroTurf is liberally used as flooring both there and…
For years, medical marijuana opponents have argued that MMJ is being diverted for illicit recreational purposes, with industry advocates countering that there’s no proof of such claims. There is now, says Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. A new report entitled “Colorado’s ‘Medical’ Marijuana”…
Fewer than 10 percent of registered medical marijuana patients in Colorado designate someone else as their primary caregiver. That’s according to stats compiled for Westword last week by Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment officials — and if you think this number is very different than past ones, you’re…
Now and then, companies send us medical marijuana-related products ranging from vaporizers to board games. We showcase them in our quasi-regular product review section, Stoner MacGyver. The latest? Cannabis Logbook 1.5 iPhone app…
Billionaire George Soros is a frequent conservative target for donating big bucks to liberal causes (of course, conservatives have munificent billionaires of their own — but that’s another story). Now, Smart Colorado, a group opposing Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, sees Soros’s fingerprints on the pro-pot campaign,…
The Health Center is a tiny center in a tiny house on a tiny block in the Uptown neighborhood. What isn’t little, though, was the selection of unique strains more than worth taking home…
As of the end of May, there were 98,910 red card-holding medical marijuana patients in the state according to MMJ registry numbers released by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. That’s up from the previous report, released in June. But despite a steady increase over the past six…
Last week, a Montana court ruled that hash and concentrates are not legally defined in that state’s medical marijuana laws and are therefore illegal for MMJ patients there to possess. According to Denver marijuana attorney Warren Edson, a similar situation isn’t likely to occur in Colorado — but the way…
Yesterday, the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to ban medical marijuana dispensaries — a decision that’s expected to shutter more than 700 businesses. Could something like that happen in Denver? Attorney and longtime marijuana advocate Brian Vicente doubts it, but he doesn’t reject the possibility…
Last week, we told you about a Grand Junction billboard in support of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, featuring televangelist Pat Robertson, who’d made public statements in support of the measure. Nonetheless, one of Robertson’s reps asked that the billboard come down — and it has…
A few weeks ago, I was driving down Broadway on the way home from picking my dog up at a friend’s house when I realized that I didn’t have any herb I was pumped to puff. But it was close to closing time at the dispensaries, and my choices were…
Will pot prices drop and usage rise not just in Colorado but across the country if Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, passes? An author on a Washington, D.C. panel at the American Enterprise Institute seen in a video below thinks so — but an Amendment 64 proponent…
A lot of people, especially in these parts, might think New Jersey would be vastly improved if it became more like Colorado. But not New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, at least as far as marijuana is concerned. According to a just-published column, he’s gone on record as saying he doesn’t…
The proponents of Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, have turned plenty of heads via billboards near Mile High Stadium, with the first featuring a soccer-mom-type woman revealing her preference for cannabis and the second spotlighting a father saying, “Please card my son” — the implication being that…
