Weed Between the Lines
Getting to know you
With just over 12 weeks of writing this column, I am still pretty green when it comes to cannabis. I am no expert, rather...
Reintroducing SAFE
In 2016, Travis Mason was working as a security guard at Green Heart when two armed men walked through the dispensary’s door. The robbery...
Defining craft cannabis
Skywalker OG. Sour Diesel. LA Confidential. With dozens of different strains available to choose from, each emitting a different aroma and promising a different...
Why not base cannabis treatment on science instead of fear?
First things first: Kudos to Club Ned and the city of Nederland for opening the first cannabis club in Boulder County last week. One of the downsides to the current law is that people aren’t allowed to smoke cannabis anywhere in public or smoke anything inside ...
Crusade for MORE
House passes MORE Act (again) after adding research provisions—now it faces an uphill battle in the Senate
Changing times
With the New Year comes my anniversary with Weed Between the Lines. When I first started writing the column two years ago, I approached...
Denver murder suspect says the pot made him do it
A week ago Friday, lawyers for Richard Kirk, a Denver man who is charged with the murder of his wife after eating a cannabis edible during a domestic disturbance in April 2014, changed his original plea from not guilty to not guilty by reason of insanity...
A New Leaf chronicles the demise of prohibition
If A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition sometimes reads as if it were being written as history was unfolding, that’s because it was. Journalists Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian began working on A New Leaf as the cannabis reform movement was gaining momentum...
Keep your eye on the ball
How a vigilant hemp advocacy organization rallied against a special interest group's bastardized hemp regulation bill
Mainstream cannabis comes to Colorado
On Nov. 9, Colorado’s weed scene gained its capstone endorsement — Snoop Dogg launched his very own line of marijuana products including flower, chocolate bars, shatter, wax, drops and other candies...
Looking good on paper
Legalizing marijuana is not a one-size-fits-all process for states.
Some cautious states are choosing to only legalize medicinally, while their neighbors leap at the opportunity...
Street Legal
Drunk driving wasn’t illegal in all 50 states until 1988. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act not only set the age of consumption to...
