Cannabis Corner
Treating marijuana producers like dirt
On Nov. 6, 2012 the people of Colorado decisively voted to legalize recreational marijuana. Amendment 64 passed with 55.3 percent of the vote.
In Boulder...
Even paranoids have real enemies
This week’s scary marijuana headline comes to us compliments of the Medscape.com website. It reads: “Marijuana Tied to Persistent Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms in Teens.”
According...
The awesome potency of today’s pot
According to a story in the Orange County Register, today’s marijuana “is typically four times stronger than the marijuana of just a couple of...
Where the stoners are (and aren’t) in the USA
Ever wonder what parts of the country are home to the highest percentage of stoners, and which parts have the lowest percentage? And ever...
Reading the entrails: The latest marijuana polls
The latest marijuana legalization polls are out, and they contain bad news and good news.
First, the bad news.
Recent polls in both Massachusetts and Arizona...
The making of the President — pot edition
Could marijuana legalization have an impact on the outcome of the presidential election? Yes, and in more ways than one.
The most obvious way pot...
The end of the line for 139
Well, look who’s dazed and confused now.
Less than a month ago, a brave little band of Colorado marijuana recriminalizers and drug war dead-enders announced...
Regulate alcohol like marijuana?
The official name of Amendment 64, the ballot initiative that legalized recreational marijuana in Colorado, was the “Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol”.
Amendment 64...
Pot-themed golf tourneys becoming the new normal
The words “marijuana” and “golf” have rarely appeared together in the same sentence since the invention of English, but the times they are a-changing.
Last...
Anti-pot Prop 139 missed the Alzheimer’s memo
There may be a major anti-marijuana initiative on the Colorado Ballot this November. Here’s what you need to know about it, and about a...
What happens in Vegas may not stay there
Before the Las Vegas Review-Journal was against legalizing recreational marijuana in Nevada, it was for it.
All in, lean in for it.
On May 30, 2014,...
Lies, damn lies and Massachusetts DAs
When marijuana legalization opponents think they might lose at the polls, they try to keep legalization initiatives off the ballot.
Their tactics for doing this...