Weed Between the Lines
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...
Risky Business, Part II: Credit cards no longer accepted
"I get asked five times a week by people who want to run Visa and Mastercard through Jane,” says David Ellerstein, CEO of Jane, a...
One author’s cannabis journey of discovery
When Bruce Barcott began to research a book about the legalization of marijuana in the United States, one of the first things that concerned him was how he was going to talk with his children about it...
January pot politics roundup
Looks like 2019 is shaping up to be a new level of hell that none of us were prepared for. In this week’s episode...
Boulder Valley schools won’t support Gov’s ‘rat cages’ campaign
As you probably know by now, the Governor’s Office has launched a “Don’t Be A Lab Rat” campaign. Targeted at 12- to 15-year-olds, it kicked off Aug. 11 with lots of TV coverage, as well as ads on YouTube and before films in movie theaters. Large human-sized cages, ...
How to calm down when the world’s on fire
The Trump administration is aging me dramatically. It feels like this country has been in a perpetual state of chaos with the seemingly endless...
Wedding bells
Weddings have a way of bringing me to a point of excruciatingly thorough reflection — thinking about the choices I’ve made and what they...
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 ...
Are we finally ‘Hemp Bound’ here in the United States?
There has been encouraging news on the hemp front. Rep. Jared Polis and a few bipartisan representatives got a provision passed into the FARM bill last year that allows colleges, universities and state departments of agriculture to grow test plots of hemp for ...
Flood of bud
This story is part of Our Road to Recovery, our coverage of the 2013 Boulder County floods...
The color of cannabis
When cannabis was legalized recreationally in Colorado, there were two main factors that kept communities of color from getting in the game, says Sarah...
Cannabis use drops among Colorado teens
Teenagers are our go-to demographic whenever we want to make something scary or edgy sounding, which is exactly why we rely on them to...
