Update below: For months, anticipation has built toward this year’s 4/20 Rally at Civic Center Park, touted as a mix of pot, hip hop and serious politics to be witnessed by locals and visitors from all over the country. Yet the positive nature of the event was countered by a…
This week’s multi-part cover story about the state of the state of marijuana takes a look at Amendment 64 and how legislators will address implementing the legalization of small amounts of cannabis and the shops that will sell it. Our print edition also features a Q&A with Amendment 64 proponent…
The video kicks off with a couple awkwardly sitting next to each other as glasses of wine on a nearby table and the sound of Marvin Gaye singing “Let’s Get It On” encourage them to do…something. What happens next? Rather than succumbing to Marvin’s entreaties and ripping each other’s clothes…
We at Westword strive to be your go-to source for news about 4/20 — and we’ve been covering the big event at Civic Center Park for years. As proof, we offer the following photos, culled from five different 4/20 slide shows snapped between 2009 and 2012. Be sure to click…
It’s not so much that Artisanal Medicinals looks sketchy from the outside. It’s…ummm…okay, the place looks sketchy from the outside. It’s in a forgotten corner of Denver that you probably only visited back in the day if you were buying paint, having a car repaired or spray painting murals at…
This week’s multi-part cover story about the state of the state of marijuana takes a look at Amendment 64 and how legislators will address implementing the legalization of small amounts of cannabis and the shops that will sell it. Our print edition also features a Q&A with Amendment 64 proponent…
Amendment 64 may have legalized recreational marijuana in Colorado, but it also raised many new questions. We created Ask a Stoner to try to provide some answers. Here’s our special 4/20 edition. Dear Stoner: Who is in charge here? What’s going on? Why can’t I buy joints at 7-Eleven yet?…
The current incarnation of Colorado House Bill 1114, the THC driving bill gained House approval earlier this month and is headed for the Senate Judiciary Committee next Monday, April 22, after the 4/20 weekend. Given that timing, several activists — including Cannabis University founder Michelle LaMay — are urging 4/20…
This week’s multi-part cover story about the state of the state of marijuana takes a look at Amendment 64 and how legislators will address implementing the legalization of small amounts of cannabis and the shops that will sell it. Our print edition also features a Q&A with Amendment 64 proponent…
Critics of 4/20 gatherings tend to dismiss them as pot-infused parties rather than political events — but the annual Denver 4/20 Rally, scheduled to take place at Civic Center Park on both April 20 and 21, suggests that this theory is too one-dimensional. In his latest release, organizer Miguel Lopez…
A bill to register hemp farmers with the state Department of Agriculture has been introduced at the State Capitol. As explained in our cover story, “Green Acres,” the marijuana-centric Amendment 64 also made it lawful to grow hemp, weed’s sober stepsister. The bill, known as SB 241, creates a process…
Despite ramped-up pressure from national media outlets, the federal government still has not offered a response to the December 10 signing of Amendment 64, which allows adults 21 and over in Colorado to use and possess small amounts of marijuana. Into this vacuum have stepped a number of legislators, including…
Last week, Denver mayor Michael Hancock advocated for tight regulation of marijuana in the wake of Amendment 64’s signing, including a ban on pot clubs. Another indication of the Hancock administration’s desire for tough regs? A new study from the Denver Office of Drug Strategy, which argues that marijuana shouldn’t…
We have so much marijuana at Westword, we don’t know what to do with it. Marijuana news, that is. We’re looking to bring on our second-ever pot-specific intern. You don’t need to be a medical marijuana cardholder or anything like that, but some working knowledge of cannabis and the cannabis…
Back in December 2011, we told you about Kaleb Young, a marijuana caretaker who’d been acquitted of three felonies. But while the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office gave back some of the items seized during a raid the previous year, 42 marijuana plants weren’t returned — because they had died. Now,…
There’s an unwritten rule with restaurant critiquing that you don’t visit a place in the first month or so after it opens, since the chef needs a few weeks to break in the staff and grow accustomed to the flow of the operation. The same could apply to medical marijuana…
This week, Mayor Michael Hancock appeared before a Denver City Council subcommittee to talk marijuana. And during his time in the spotlight (see a video of his chat below), he made it clear that if he had his way, pot would be tightly regulated and clubs for those who want…
Dear Stoner: Every time I smoke herb, my eyes get redder than Rudolph’s nose. What’s up with that? Is there any way to prevent it? Ro Jo Dear Ro Jo: Ah, the classic telltale sign that someone has just finished a doobie or a nice bong load: red-eye. When I…
How useful is a drug dog trained to go after something that is now legal in two states? Since it’s no longer a crime to carry up to an ounce of marijuana in Colorado, the mere fact that a drug dog has detected marijuana isn’t reason enough to search someone…
Back in January, the Colorado Children’s Caucus made it clear to members of the Colorado legislature how its members felt about the passage of Amendment 64 via a presentation to the state’s general assembly entitled “How Drugs are Endangering Colorado’s Children.” Now, Stacee Reed, the organization’s associate ombudsman, is spreading…
It’s now been approximately five months since voters approved Amendment 64, which allows adults 21 and over in Colorado to use and possess small amounts of marijuana. Moreover, almost four months have passed since John Hickenlooper signed it into law, and four weeks-plus since U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said…
Back in 2010, we published a story in which a veterinarian warned that dogs shouldn’t be given marijuana. Shortly thereafter, Fox31 did a lurid version of the same story, complete with imagery straight out of a ’60s-era psychedelic flick. Then, last year, CBS4 reported about a vet who’d conducted a…
