Art Way, who manages Colorado’s branch of the Drug Policy Alliance, is currently hard at work on an intriguing piece of legislation set for introduction in the next session: a Good Samaritan bill intended to prevent those who call 911 when a friend is overdosing from being arrested for doing…
The subject of driving under the influence of marijuana has been much debated in these parts. A bill to set a THC driving limit was shelved in May, shortly before an HDNet report demonstrated pot-related driving impairment — and in August, the Colorado Department of Transportation launched a drugged-driving campaign…
Backbeat editor Dave Herrera broke the news that Nedfest music festival founder “Michigan” Mike Torpie had died at the age of 43. As Herrera wrote, Tarpie was a “vital, highly esteemed and beloved member of the [music] scene.” But his death is also a blow to the Colorado pot community,…
The number one spots in the 2011 High Times Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam last week for Best Seed Company indica, hybrid and sativa were all taken by Colorado-based companies. Even in Amsterdam, long known as the Mecca for cannabis cultivation and use, Colorado herb comes out on top…
What started with the sharing of green treats in the tailgate parking lots of concerts has quickly grown into one of Colorado’s most delectable marijuana edible companies. The Cheesecake Lady, aka Jessica LeRoux, has made her name in the ganja world with the magnificent morsels she creates in her kitchen…
Aside from 4/20, there’s really no better day for celebrating cannabis than Thanksgiving. A good spliff goes great with stuffing, potatoes and entire turkeys waiting to be devoured. So to get your munchies going, here’s our Thanksgiving day Mile Highs and Lows dispensary review of Walking Raven…
During our sniff adventures for Denver’s Dankest Street Corners, William Breathes and I stumbled across the Museum of Marijuana, which is really just a little house nearly lost to the office spaces and retail fronts along South Broadway. Neither of us had heard of this place before, and due to…
In recent weeks, news broke that Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division head Dan Hartman would be leaving that post in favor of Laura Harris, director of the Liquor and Tobacco Enforcement Division — a controversial move that prompted plenty of speculation. Harris took charge of MMED on November 14, and she…
Love some wake-and-bake continental breakfast with a little marijuana politics on a Saturday morning? You’re in luck. Senator Pat Steadman will be speaking tomorrow at the new offices of the Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of America (MMAPA) for the nonprofit’s open-house breakfast…
The first time I had a Mountain Medicine peanut butter cup, it was so freaking delicious and potent that it changed my life for a day. Even though I don’t remember the day because I was so blazed…
Unlike so many patients stuck in medical marijuana limbo, I received my red card in the mail this week — 29 days from the date I sent my information and a check for $90 to the Colorado Department of Health and Environment. It was postmarked a week after it was…
Call it a byproduct from years of being made to feel like a felon, but I’m not the biggest fan of police. I’ve met a few cool cops. Still, most of them view my life as a crime in progress — which is why I’ve subconsciously been avoiding shops near…
Yesterday, 9News broke the story of Colorado School of Mines student Tim Wilson. The 25-year-old is facing up to ten years in prison in Japan because a friend back here in Colorado sent him a care package containing some pot cookies and Cheeba Chews…
I knew it was coming. I predicted it all week long, actually: This was probably going to be Denver dispensary owner Jim Rice’s last shot at $1 million on Survivor. But I still found myself cheering for Rice tonight as he fought to stay on the game show he’s been…
Update 2 by Michael Roberts below: Today, the state board of health approved decreasing marijuana registry fees from $90 to $35, as anticipated — and tweaks in language involving indigent patients and physician conditions and restrictions sailed through as well. But more intriguing was word that approximately 3,200 MMJ applications…
Although Colorado Department of Health spokesman Mark Salley says red card renewal time for medical marijuana patients remains under 35 days, we keep hearing different stories. For instance, one patient tells us she’s been waiting more than two months for her card despite the fact that the state cashed her…
Although the Medical Marijuana Assistance Program of America (MMAPA) is a serious organization, the group recently sent out an apparently silly release — a suggestion that marijuana advocates adopt as their mascot a photo illustration of incoming Denver Police Chief Robert White as pot superhero Captain Cannabis. But the MMAPA’s…
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? The Kashtray…
It’s been almost a month since authorities raided Cherry Top Farms dispensary, even though the center wasn’t the target of an investigation. But the MMC remains closed, and while Cherry Top reps met with the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division yesterday, there’s still no timeline for reopening — and the longer…
New data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment shows that as of September 30, there were 102,592 patients active in the medical marijuana registry. That’s 26,000 fewer patients than the registry’s peak enrollment of 128,698 back in June — a decline of more than 20 percent…
Medical marijuana dispensaries have not only made Denver one of the most, um, medicated places in the United States; they’ve also made the Mile High one of the dankest-smelling cities in the nation. On some streets, the scent of cannabis can appear as just a faint whiff over the other…
This dispensary has closed. We’ve got a new college intern around here, and her youthful energy and endless fascination with all things cannabis remind me of my own college-age years. Back then, getting ounces of herb wasn’t as easy as walking down to the nearby dispensary. You had to be…
