I like things verde. Salsa verde on a breakfast burrito makes life better and Mesa Verde National Park is one of earth’s most beautiful places. And last week, I found plenty of my favorite kind of verde at another verde to like: Verde Wellness Center…
Even as 10,000-plus people were lighting up at the Denver Civic Center Park 4/20 rally, about the same number were doing likewise on CU’s Norlin Quad in Boulder, where the vibe was less commercial and more about raising a sweet-smelling cloud over the campus. We sent photographer Hunter Stevens to…
You walk into Civic Center Park, and immediately you smell it. Happy 4/20, everybody. You keep walking, slowly at first, like a teen at his first day of high school. Where to go first? There are so many people — some smoking joints, some peddling hand-outs, all wearing the symbol…
Miguel Lopez, organizer of the 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park, hoped the annual marijuana celebration would attract 100,000 people. Not quite: Most estimates put the crowd at 10,000 to 15,000. But that didn’t make the atmosphere any less astonishing. Check out samples of our 4/20 slideshow below, along with…
In February, a meeting of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s medical marijuana advisory committee resulted in a definition of caregivers that cheered committee member Jill Lamoureux, who called it “movement forward for patient and caregiver rights.” Now, however, the committee has been shelved and its caregivers definition…
According to Allen St. Pierre, executive director of NORML (the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), today’s 4/20 bashes in Denver and Boulder are the biggest rallies of their type “on earth.” And he expects that they’ll ready the faithful for NORML’s 40th annual conference, April 21-23 at…
Get your marijuana-infused celebrating done on 4/20 tomorrow, since two days later, on Earth Day, there apparently won’t be much to light up about. According to new research, indoor marijuana cultivation — i.e., the kind that accounts for the vast majority of medical marijuana sold in Colorado — accounts for…
It’s 4/20 time again. Tomorrow, Civic Center Park will be taken over by the city’s annual tribute to weed, and organizer Miguel Lopez is thinking big. The rally typically attracts around 50,000 people — but he’s shooting for 100,000. The complete schedule of events is below, after a photo gallery…
Yesterday, shortly before a senate committee took on a bill to set THC driving limits, Westword published the results of medical marijuana reviewer William Breathes’s blood test, which showed he was almost three times over the proposed standard when sober. The committee subsequently decided to delay the measure — and…
Last week, in advance of today’s Senate debate over a bill that would set THC driving limits, I had blood drawn (for a second time) to see just how much active THC was in my blood even after a night of sleep and not smoking for fifteen hours. As it…
The list of candidates hoping to win the District 8 City Council seat that opened up due to councilwoman Carla Madison’s death is a long one — more than twenty to date. Among the more noteworthy? Warren Edson, who’s best known for his advocacy of medical marijuana. Although he stresses…
On Monday, the Colorado Senate will take up HB 1261, a bill that sets THC driving limits at five nanograms per milliliter of blood — a level to which many critics object. Indeed, even its sponsor, Representative Claire Levy, now thinks this number may be too strict. But attorney M…
William Breathes doubles his pleasure this week via a trip to Crown Burger Plus and Urban Cannabis, the dispensary next door. And other taste treats can be found in our newly updated MMJ listings. Click here to access our medical-marijuana dispensary directory…
This dispensary has closed. I stopped by Urban Cannabis last year, but never ended up writing a review about it. At the time, they didn’t have much on their shelves from their own garden, and what they did have was overpriced and not worth the digital ink to report. This…
No need to explain 4/20 in these parts, what with medical marijuana continuing to be such a hot topic in Colorado. Some politicians are all for it, others say we don’t need it, and all the while, pot makes news daily…
Two weeks ago, with Rep Claire Levy’s marijuana DUI bill headed for debate in the Senate, I went and got poked with needles in hopes of finding out just how much THC is in my blood when I’m sober. Unfortunately, I still don’t have an answer. Two weeks ago, I…
Update: Plants 4 Life, Castle Rock’s only medical marijuana dispensary, had been ordered to close by 7 p.m. yesterday in accordance with the MMJ retail-sales ban passed by the town last week. But late in the afternoon, attorney Rob Corry, who’s been fighting on behalf of Plants 4 Life since…
The High Times Medical Cannabis Cup came into town on April 2 and 3, and left many attendees in what seemed like a permanent high. Westword pot critic William Breathes gushed that it was “one of the most amazing cannabis events in Colorado short of passing Amendment 20 nearly twelve…
The first line of Carol Boigon’s new ad is this: “Whether you support medical marijuana or not, putting dispensaries everywhere is not a jobs plan.” Why did the mayoral hopeful, whose slogan is “Boigon Means Business,” mention pot? “There’s a number of my colleagues on the council — and one…
After a week, I finally got the results from my blood test last Friday — and unfortunately, the lab didn’t give me the information I’d asked for. Fortunately, the state senate’s judiciary committee just pushed back discussion of HB1261, also known as the marijuana DUI bill, by a week. According…
Doug Linkhart is definitely the most openly pro-medical marijuana of the candidates for mayor. Hence, his endorsement by the Teapot Party and embrace by local MMJ businesses. Now, the next step: This evening, Linkhart will headline the first-ever fundraising event for a Denver mayoral hopeful at dispensary…
This week, Grand Junction and Castle Rock banned retail sales of medical marijuana, joining Loveland and many other Colorado municipalities that have enacted similar prohibitions. Do these votes suggest that a proposed 2012 ballot measure to legalize pot for adult recreational use is doomed to failure? Hardly, says SAFER’s Mason…
