For the second month in a row, the Colorado medical marijuana registry has seen an increase in the number of patients, definitively ending a six-month stretch of people giving up their red cards. According to stats released by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment last week, a total…
Today, eleven organizations associated with medical marijuana, including trade associations and the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7, have sent an open letter to U.S. Attorney John Walsh. How does Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente describe the message at the heart of the document, on view below in its entirety?…
U.S. Attorney John Walsh has said that his crackdown on dispensaries near schools is intended to protect children and young people from drugs and drug abuse. But a good number of Boulder dispensaries targeted in the second round are near a university full of adults, leading some to speculate on…
Studies show that 55 percent of Americans believe marijuana should be legalized, but only sixteen states (including Colorado) allow its medical use. The following infographic, shared by a reader/graphics pro, is a visual argument for legalization. (The campaign for regulating pot in Colorado began in November 2010 and continues through…
This dispensary has closed. It wasn’t a busy day, but the shop named A Mile High was slammed with customers the day I was in — including a father in with his toddler son buying herb. Now, I have no problem with herb being used around children, but years of…
On March 22, two doctors practicing in northern Colorado were arrested by the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office on charges of writing false medical marijuana prescriptions for undercover officers. If the charges against them are true, does that make them typical of MMJ physicians? Or the exceptions?…
The woman seen here looks like a highly polished business owner, perhaps, or maybe a suburban soccer mom. But as portrayed on a billboard being formally unveiled today at a high-profile location near the Denver Broncos’ home, Sports Authority Field at Mile High (see it below), she’s also a fan…
Last night, CBS4 ran a piece about staff cuts (from 37 to twenty) at the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division. At the conclusion of the report, on view below, correspondent Rick Sallinger asked ominously if the reduced crew could possibly enforce the many regulations imposed on MMJ businesses. But he skipped…
Yesterday, voters in the communities of Lyons, Fruita and Crawford voted about whether to allow medical marijuana retail sales — and the results were mixed. Lyons okayed dispensaries, while Crawford and Fruita nixed them even though neither is home to such a business at this time…
Today marks 95 years since the first cannabis-control law passed in Colorado. Andres Lucero, a Democratic representative from Las Animas County, introduced House Bill 263, which proposed making growing or using cannabis grown by individuals a misdemeanor. On March 30, 1917, the bill was approved, and the recreational use of…
Broadsterdam. The Green Mile. That Stretch of Broadway With All the Weed Shops. It doesn’t matter what you call South Broadway between I-25 and Evans: Patients have a lot of choices about where to buy weed in a pretty small area……
Earlier this month, eighteen-year-old Christian Valdez was killed by a California Highway Patrol officer following a high speed chase. California authorities subsequently portrayed the incident as a “suicide by cop” that ended the life of a dangerous prison escapee. But Valdez’s father disputes that. He feels his son, who was…
Tonight, Hayter’s & Co., at 1920 Blake Street, will host One Love, a benefit for the legal fund of Jason Beinor, a medical marijuana patient whose firing is at the center of a case activists hope will reach the Colorado Supreme Court. The name of the bash frosts Timothy Tipton,…
Earlier this month, attorney Rob Corry shared correspondence between him and U.S. Attorney John Walsh over seizure-threat letters sent to 23 dispensaries near schools. His latest gambit: A Freedom of Information Act request intended, in part, to determine if the actions are as popular as Walsh has implied…
Update: On Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that it had sent another 25 seizure-threat letters to medical marijuana dispensaries within 1,000 feet of schools; see details in our original coverage below. However, some language in the letters differed from the first mailing in January. Now, a spokesman for U.S…
As part of his post about medical marijuana for 1 percenters, William Breathes touted an unusual fundraiser conceived by The Clinic. Each of its centers would raffle off a nugget of Green Gold valued at an astonishing $4,200 per ounce to benefit the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Winners were supposed…
I’ve been eyeing the CCF sign on Colfax for years now. It’s one of the most prominent MMJ signs on Colfax, while at the same time being relatively modest. Just three big letters on an old neon marquee. I always assumed the sign was probably the best part about the…
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett recently took issue with U.S. Attorney John Walsh’s closure-threat letters to medical marijuana centers within 1,000 feet of schools. After Garnett sent a letter of his own on the topic, a U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman told us Walsh would respond directly to the Boulder DA…
It’s one month before 4/20 at CU Boulder, an annual protest against marijuana prohibition/celebration of pot culture. While student leaders at the school have been talking for months about how to move the event off-campus, they now appear to be resigned to the bash happening as scheduled. But they’re preparing…
In the past, Democrats were more likely to support regulating marijuana for recreational use, while Republicans felt otherwise. But growing evidence suggests this may no longer be the case. Take the Denver County Republican Assembly, a majority of whom appear to support Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol act…
It’s hard to believe that it has been two years since I last visited the Giving Tree in Denver. Time flies when you’re stoned. Most everything has remained physically the same about the shop, but the space was never an issue; it was seeds. But the quality of herb seems…
Update:This week, Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett wrote a letter to U.S. Attorney John Walsh asking him not to send seizure threats to any Boulder medical marijuana dispensaries conforming to state and local land use regulations. When asked about the note, Walsh’s spokesman said his boss would respond directly to…
