Weed Between the Lines

Cabins, campfires and cannabis

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Summer camping has it all. There’s nothing like escaping daily life to experience the freedom of the mountains. Leave your worries and trendy food...

Could Boulder price itself out of the pot market?

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I support taxes on sales of marijuana, but I’m scratching my head a little over the latest proposal before the Boulder City Council to place a 15 percent city excise tax on grow and infusion facilities and a 10 percent city sales tax on marijuana on the November ...

Climbing the learning curve

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If there is one argument that opponents of legal cannabis like to fall back on, it’s that “there’s not enough research to know the effects.” And...

Flood of bud

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This story is part of Our Road to Recovery, our coverage of the 2013 Boulder County floods...

Tax debate highlights rift in cannabis movement

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On Sept. 23, there was a “free joint giveaway” on the Boulder Pearl Street Mall that was organized by the “No on Proposition AA Committee.” More than 1,000 cannabis cigarettes were given away to call attention to the marijuana tax issue that will appear on the Nov. 5...

The state can’t protect us from ourselves

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While the Colorado legislature struggles with ways to make marijuana look different from other food products, another tragic death has been blamed on edibles by the family of an Oklahoma man who shot himself March 21 while on a skiing vacation in Keystone...

Local attorney argues fed laws don’t apply to MMJ

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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 ...

The misunderstood molecule

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How many people actually know the difference between tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD)?Ask a chemist, a medical professional or, really, any average Coloradan, and...

Turn and face the strange ch-ch-changes

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On Nov. 6, 54.8 percent of Colorado voters passed Amendment 64, The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, which allows adults to possess, consume, buy and grow marijuana in small quantities for personal use. Washington state passed a similar law that day, the first ...

Pot’s got game

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It began in late October when former NBA Commissioner David Stern said in an interview that he is “convinced that cannabis does have medicinal...

A cannabis ad campaign designed to educate, not frighten

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New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd took some serious shit earlier this year for a piece she wrote about her scary experience in a Denver hotel room after an overdose of cannabis edibles. She was mocked for being stupid, for not reading the packaging, for not ...

Windows of impairment and detection

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Driving high is illegal, no matter what state you’re in. But proving someone is or isn’t under the influence of cannabis at the time...