Weed Between the Lines
Smelly business
Cannabis grow ops might stink like pollution, but state research suggests we’re just smelling things
Election fallout in the green industry
If anything was actually clear on election night, it was the American people’s will to legalize cannabis.
New Jersey, Montana, South Dakota and Arizona all...
Heading for a showdown on cannabis and banking?
Almost within minutes of the official announcement, headlines last Friday proclaimed that the Department of Justice and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, in separate issuances, had finally given banks a green ...
‘Gazette’ cannabis package serves up purple haze
The Gazette in Colorado Springs last week published a package about cannabis legalization in the state under the banner “Clearing the Haze...
Taking a tolerance break
"I can never tell when you’re high. You don’t act any different,” a friend said to me last weekend. We had taken a day...
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...
Back-alley deal
It was summer and it was hot. We sought what respite we could from the sun and also from the occasional passerby in the...
The THC Fear Factor
It was great news to hear that New York has decided to legalize medical cannabis...
Medically validating pot: Canada’s first medical cannabis clinical trial
Across the U.S., thousands of medical patients use cannabis to treat their anxiety, chronic pain, sleeplessness, arthritis and even epilepsy every day, as medical...
Decade of dank
This November marks 10 years since Colorado voted to legalize cannabis. And it’s been a wild ride.
The Schedule I narcotic went from a prohibited...
Cannabis used for federally funded research is ditchweed
In case you were looking for more ways to be embarrassed by the federal government, you can add “growing brick weed” to the list....
Medical cannabis heads toward the tipping point
Weed, the CNN documentary anchored by Dr. Sanjay Gupta that aired last summer, highlighted the case of Charlotte Figi, a Colorado girl whose epileptic seizures were calmed by use of a special strain of cannabis high in cannabidiol, or CBD, a cannabinoid associated ...