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…
Today, even as a medical marijuana rally is taking place across the street from the state capitol, peruse our latest dispensary review — the Wildflower Seed’s take on GreenBelly Co-op. And there’s more where that came from, courtesy of Westword’s newly updated dispensary directory. Check it out by clicking here…
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…
With medical marijuana taking the state by storm, it was inevitable that Christianity would be added to the mix. That time will apparently come later today: At a state capitol rally, Reverend James Marks of the THC Ministry church in Boulder is expected to make news by bestowing a pot-themed…
Yesterday, we pointed out that the Mile High NORML Cannabis Rally, slated to begin at 11:30 a.m. this morning across the street from the west steps of the capitol, would feature a special blessing by Reverend James Marks of the THC Ministry. But that’s hardly the only noteworthy event on…
Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulations is the local advocacy organization that seems most willing to compromise with officials and legislators about weed rules in these parts; not that the group’s frontman, Matt Brown, actually praised Denver City Council’s recently approved plan at the same time high profile attorney Rob Corry…
The latest session of the state legislature kicks off today, with (still) Governor Bill Ritter’s state-of-the-state speech slated for tomorrow. But immediately afterward, the real fun begins. Medical marijuana advocates plan to stage the Mile High NORML Cannabis Rally across the street from the capitol steps, with speakers slated to…
Officials charged with regulating the booming medical marijuana business — like members of Denver City Council, who approved an ordinance last night — are feeling heat from more than just weed advocates like attorney Rob Corry, who’s considering legal action to stop the council’s rules from going into effect. Also…
Most medical marijuana backers are up in arms about the weed rules passed by Denver City Council last night — including attorney Rob Corry, who says he may form a coalition to sue over the regulations. But Matt Brown, head of Coloradans for Medical Marijuana Regulations, who was profiled in…
Yesterday, the Denver City Council passed rules intended to regulate the burgeoning medical marijuana industry — and most members of the overflow crowd weren’t happy with what went down. That includes Rob Corry, an attorney and medical marijuana advocate. In a previous blog, Corry made it clear he would consider…
“For the first time in years, people in Denver are abusing marijuana more than any other drug,” trumpeted a January 8 Channel 9 investigative story on citywide drug stats. That’s quite the announcement. Too bad the story itself is filled with more useless junk than a baggie of ditch weed…
Now that Denver City Council has approved a set of medical marijuana rules, the next major deliberative body in Colorado to take on the topic will be the state legislature. But there’s no clear map for the legislature to follow, what with Senator Chris Romer scrapping most of his heavily…
On Friday, we shared with you a letter by attorney Rob Corry shredding Senator Chris Romer’s latest draft of a measure to regulate the medical marijuana industry. Shortly thereafter, Romer backed away from the bill even as he argued that medical marijuana advocates may soon face greater restrictions because of…
After Senator Chris Romer announced that he would be withdrawing most of a proposed bill aimed at regulating the medical marijuana industry, the Cannabis Therapy Institute, a prominent pro-marijuana organization, called his decision a “guarded victory” in a press release on view at the bottom of this item. And CTI…
Senator Chris Romer has been working on medical marijuana legislation for many weeks — and he’s clearly grown frustrated with the chore. On Saturday, he published an essay in the Huffington Post declaring that “my attempts to bring medical marijuana out of the shadows through a complex regulatory structure are…
Attorney Rob Corry has become the poster-lawyer for the medical marijuana business in Colorado, both through his legal gambits — like victory in a dispute over the Colorado Board of Health’s language switch involving the definition of a medical marijuana caregiver — to his primary role in the Colorado Wellness…
Last August, Diego Alvarez was arrested in Avon on charges of felony cultivation of marijuana and felony possession of more than eight ounces of marijuana in a bust that made news throughout the state. Now, however, the case has come to a screeching halt. In a pre-trial hearing in Eagle…
The pot proposal pushed by Denver city councilman Charlie Brown is up for public comment on Monday — and the Cannabis Therapy Institute, among the most efficient and effective marijuana advocacy organizations in the state, wants to make sure folks who agree with its views show up in droves. CTI…
