Last January, Mile High NORML staged a pro-cannabis rally across the street from the State Capitol to correspond with the opening of the legislative session; see photos below. But advocate Miguel Lopez’s attempt to stage a sequel has hit a stumbling block. The state has denied him a permit for…
Gustavo Arellano and Tom Tancredo didn’t find much common ground in their debate about illegal immigration Tuesday night, but they did agree that the war on drugs has been a very costly failure. A new report seeks to quantify that costby looking at the long-term effects of adding increasing numbers…
It looks like I missed the worst of it. Just four months ago, I sent in my application to renew my medical marijuana card and have been waiting on the edge of my seat to see if they would reject me for some trivial minutia ever since…
While members of the Colorado Springs Medical Cannabis Council are celebrating results showing that an El Paso County measure to ban medical marijuana businesses officially lost at the polls, they’re already facing another potential crisis. According to CSMCC president Tanya Garduno, a zoning change under consideration tomorrow could force the…
The morning after election day, a medical marijuana business ban vote in El Paso County was close enough to require a provisional ballot count Vote No on 1A spokesman Mike Elliott predicted would take quite a while, and he was right. Last night, officials finally confirmed the measure lost –…
Colorado is still enjoying the considerable windfall from its brand-new medical marijuana business licensing fees. As first reported by Face the State, Colorado has now collected more than $8 million in MMJ licensing fees since the rules went into effect this August, up from $7.3 million this summer…
Moments from now, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office will return hash it seized from medical marijuana patient Gregory VonAlmen — and Von Almen’s attorney, Rob Corry, believes the decision sets a precedent by establishing that marijuana concentrate and other related products are also protected by Amendment 20, which legalized MMJ…
The fall edition of the Caregivers’ Cup is set for this weekend, and the event keeps growing and growing. Organizer Tim Tipton predicts a crowd of 2,000 will attend the extravaganza. But he’s already been caught off-guard by a controversy within the medical marijuana community about the original flier used…
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s recent rejection of nearly 2,000 medical marijuana patient licenses over a quiet rule change caused such an uproar that the department promised to temporarily reinstate licenses for around 1,300 MMJ users — among them Larry Shurtleff, who suffers from stage 4 cancer…
Marijuana activist Miguel Lopez is throwing himself a birthday party on Sunday, November 14, at Casselman’s, and everyone’s invited. But Lopez doesn’t want any gifts. Instead, he’s planning to divvy up proceeds from the bash between various weed-related causes, including legalization efforts and next year’s 4/20 rally…
With so many Colorado cities and counties banning medical marijuana dispensaries on election day, many MMJ patients across the states will be put in the position of growing their own cannabis. But how to start? A home grower named Cranman has written Beginner’s MMJ Indoor Soil Grow Guide, which he’s…
From the outside, and even once you walk in, not much appears to have changed at The Releaf Center since our Mae Coleman first visited back in September of 2009. The bars on the front windows are gone, but they still have ample floor space, a dance-studio mirrored wall in…
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s rejection of nearly 2,000 medical marijuana patients’ licenses prompted talk of potential lawsuits from MMJ advocacy groups. But the dynamic changed at yesterday’s meeting of the CDPHE’s medical marijuana advisory committee, when the department temporarily backed off its earlier pronouncement…
Medical marijuana in Colorado has generated plenty of lawsuits, with more legal action possible in a health department case involving limits on doctors who can recommend MMJ. But the Department of Revenue, which is in charge of writing the rules for two new medical marijuana laws hadn’t been targeted until…
The differences between the federal government’s marijuana laws and MMJ rules in Colorado are vast. Ask Chris Bartkowicz, who faces years in prison for growing cannabis he said was for medical purposes. So why are the feds supplying Irvin Rosenfeld almost 300 marijuana cigarettes every 25 days? He’ll explain during…
While the big weed setback last week might have been the defeat of California’s Proposition 19, marijuana didn’t fare too well in Colorado, either. As per the state’s new medical marijuana laws, local officials are now allowed to ask voters whether or not their communities should allow dispensaries and affiliated…
Medical marijuana forums frequently pit proponents versus detractors as a way of setting the rhetoric ablaze. But not “Medical Marijuana: Solution or Work in Progress,” a City Club of Denver presentation set for 11:45 a.m. today at the Brown Palace Hotel. The event is peopled by MMJ backers, albeit ones…
The national media’s fascination with the weedier aspects of Colorado life continues unabated, and the town of Nederland is among the latest beneficiaries. A few weeks back, Nederland’s pot friendliness landed the community on Rolling Stone magazine’s latest “Hot List” in a piece likely read by staffers at the New…
The rejection of nearly 2,000 medical marijuana applications due to a new health department policy has generated anger among patients and doctors no longer allowed to write recommendations. Now, a rep of the advocacy group Sensible Colorado, which took part in a successful court challenge against the department last year,…
Why did Proposition 19, the CA pot legalization measure, fail? One reason might have been Obama administration antagonism exemplified by the memo “Marijuana legalization: A bad idea.” As Colorado begins the march to a 2012 legalization measure, let’s see if Obama’s “pot cheat sheet” holds up to scrutiny…
Over the past week or so, medical marijuana patients across the state have learned that doctor recommendations for the card allowing them to use MMJ have been rejected. Why? A new health department policy that slid into place almost unnoticed — one that’s likely to disenfranchise and anger nearly 2,000…
The campaign to legalize marijuana for personal use in Colorado — Legalize 2012 — officially kicked off last night in Boulder with Paul Danish, a former Boulder City Councilman and County Commissioner, as the keynote speaker. Danish touched on the failed Prop. 19 — California’s own ballot initiative to legalize…
