Weed Between the Lines
Relief MAPS
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) affects roughly 5% of U.S. adults every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). That number is...
Budgeting innovation
Governor Jared Polis appeared on the cannabis podcast Weed Wonks on Nov. 2 outlining the scope of his 2024-2025 budget proposals and sharing his...
From paraphernalia to high art
There has long existed a divide between high art and craft. Devoid of utility, art is free to speak on its own terms, as...
Fear not
Last week, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a surprise appearance at the New Hampshire Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness regaling middle and high...
Safety first — and ethical considerations of legalization
No matter how you feel about the legalization of marijuana in Colorado, medically or recreationally, the legal change in status effectively enhanced the freedoms...
The banshee screams for MORE
Ending the federal prohibition of cannabis has never felt closer than it does now. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act passed the...
You can’t hide from the turning of the tide
When Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that there were too many people in federal prison, outlined Justice Department plans to stop charging low-level and nonviolent drug offenders (ie. cannabis users) with crimes that carry mandatory minimums and ...
State health report looks at the negatives of cannabis use
The Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Monday released a review on health issues related to cannabis. “Monitoring Health Concerns Related to Marijuana in Colorado: 2014 Changes in Marijuana Use Patterns, Systematic Literature Review, and Possible ...
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 ...
Out of prison, into the biz
When Coss Marte first got into New York City’s cannabis industry in the ’90s he was just 11 years old. But he was a...
High hopes for improved reporting on teen marijuana use
When Rocky Mountain Community Radio reporter Bente Birkeland began tracking legal marijuana’s impacts on Colorado teenagers earlier this year, she discovered key data wasn’t available...
A sane, sensible approach to public cannabis consumption
One of the conundrums surrounding the implementation of Amendment 64 is that while you can buy marijuana in Colorado, there aren’t many places where you can legally use it in a social setting. Citizens are pretty much limited to their homes or a friend’s house or ...
