Weed Between the Lines
Cannabis is legal. Where and when will we be able to...
If Amendment 64 supporters needed a reminder that almost 45 percent of Coloradans voted against legalizing cannabis, the Colorado Springs City Council’s ban on retail stores came with a caveat: Mayor Steve Bach said that as long as he was in charge, he would veto any...
Concentrated regulation
After months of contentious debate, close to 30 amendments in the Colorado legislative session, and a veto request letter from over 100 medical marijuana...
The limits to legislating cannabis edibles
The state of Colorado got generally high marks for its initial rollout of recreational cannabis from a Brookings Institute report released last week. Writer John Hudak admitted it’s too early to determine how well legalization will work out, but it praised the state’...
The high-functioning stoner
According to a 2017 survey that polled 600 marijuana users, nearly half (48 percent) have gone to work high. Of those participants, 39 percent...
Vanessa
Last week was the opening week of NBA basketball, and I was glued to the couch watching the 76ers play the Raptors in Toronto....
Colorado says ‘no’ to medical marijuana for post-traumatic stress
John Evans insists that calling post-traumatic stress a disorder is like cutting yourself and calling the blood a disorder...
Sin tax scholarships
Cannabis is currently recreationally legal in 21 states, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington D.C. Across those states there are...
Homeowners’ green incentive
Property values soar in states that have legalized weed compared to those that haven’t—and in more ways than expected
Rumblings of change
A leaked letter between a top official from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) and Anne Milgram, head of the Drug Enforcement...
Out with the old: Rethinking marijuana as a gateway drug
For generations of Americans, marijuana’s description as a gateway drug was embedded into drug prevention education lessons. The federally endorsed D.A.R.E. program that ran...
Growing pot
The legal cannabis industry has gone through a lot these last few years — from prohibition into the light; from nascent industry to startup...
The alcohol-marijuana conundrum
One of the things that has fascinated me over the years is why so many people are so intent on not allowing me or millions of other Americans to use marijuana...
