Weed Between the Lines
Is Colorado’s MMJ patient registry being shared with law enforcement?
Among the many troubling findings of a report from the Office of the State Auditor on the administration of the state medical marijuana regulatory system is that confidential information about medical marijuana patients has and is being shared, possibly ...
Criminal
As soon as the wheels touched the tarmac at St. Louis’s Lambert airport, everyone on the plane scrambled for their phones, eager to find...
Local attorney argues fed laws don’t apply to MMJ
Boulder attorney Andrew Reid of the law firm Springer & Steinberg, on behalf of Nederland area resident Kathleen Chippi and the Patient and Caregiver Rights Litigation Project (PCRLP), has filed an amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief to the Colorado Supreme ...
Higher propagation
Mother plants are a staple in most commercial cannabis operations. Shoots from a mother plant are cut and their severed ends are dipped in...
Breaking down ‘The Munchies’
How does science explain the appetite-stimulating side effects of cannabis use?
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 ...
Our ancestors got high
Smoking weed is an older pastime than you might think. That’s according to research published June 12 in Science Advances that analyzed archeological findings...
How will I know if I’m one toke over the line?
Although I’m generally encouraged about the rules and regulations passed by the Colorado Legislature to regulate marijuana like alcohol this month, the rule that still bothers me allows a jury to infer that someone whose blood level shows five nanograms of ...
Swapping poppies for chronic
More than 51 million people in the U.S. suffered from chronic pain in 2021, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). In some...
A warrior lost
We are lucky to live in Colorado.
Sure the mountains and recreation are great but that’s not what I’m talking about.
We are lucky to live...
Minor cannabinoids could be a major deal
Did you know that cannabis doesn’t actually make THC or CBD? More accurately, it doesn’t make those compounds directly. Heat or light applied to...
We danced a ghost dance
For any other column, I’d call Gary King by his last name, but we both agreed that’s too formal for our purposes. It’s weird...
