Weed Between the Lines
A plant pandemic?
It’s an RNA-based viroid that is extremely contagious—to avoid spreading between individuals it requires careful social distancing and diligent disinfection. It’s wreaking havoc in...
CU researchers find no correlation between cannabis and brain changes
One of the main cannabis prohibition memes these days is based around some recent studies that suggest that cannabis use produces physical changes in the brain. This one really caught fire after The Journal of Neuroscience published research last spring from a ...
Solving the consistency conundrum
Growing consistent cannabis is challenging, even for experienced growers working with high-end equipment. The temperatures, humidity and spectrums of light that the plants are exposed...
Songs in the key of weed
I don’t know about you, but I’ve found myself home on a Saturday night, chilling with my cat, listening to Hamilton, smoking a joint and...
Running on CBD
Before daybreak on Saturday mornings, as most of Boulder sleeps, Flavie Dokken laces up her running shoes and prepares for her routine five-hour morning...
Boulder-based company funds CSU research on CBD and canine brain cancer
There’s lots of buzz about the benefits of CBD. The non-psychoactive cannabinoid is everywhere: grocery stores, gas stations, liquor stores. A Gallup survey found...
Voters support cannabis (and high taxes, too) in 2013 elections
It’s an off-off election year, but cannabis initiatives continued to find broad voter support on Nov. 5, as large majorities passed every cannabis measure put forth across the nation...
Drug policy is a race issue and also a human issue
When I was a student at the University of Colorado I sat on the steps of Libby Hall with all my white friends with...
The DEA says ‘no’ to rescheduling marijuana
On August 11, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) rejected two petitions to reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II drug in...
Talking policy with Terri Robnett
I sat down to talk with Terri Robnett on the banks of Boulder Creek, and it wasn’t long before a gust of thick, dank cannabis...
Ushering in a new era of marijuana policy in Boulder
Boulder City Council and staff are structuring and compiling an advisory panel to research and make recommendations towards the city’s regulation of marijuana, to convene January 2016. As the marijuana industry matures, the City is working to update codes and create ...
1,000 galaxies
Close your eyes,” Daniel McQueen urges a crowd of more than 500 people at the Boulder Theater at the second annual Psychedelic Shine conference....
