Weed Between the Lines

A big day for cannabis and democracy

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On November 7, 2012, the day after 55 percent of Colorado voters passed the legalization of marijuana, I got a call from my mom. “I...

Ken Buck is always wrong about pot

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When it comes to marijuana (and most other subjects, but I digress), Ken Buck is always wrong.  Back in 2012, he was wrong about what...

Risky Business, Part 1: Banking in the marijuana industry

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For a bank, analyzing the risk of onboarding a cannabis business as a client is complicated. The legal marijuana industry is emerging and comes...

A New Leaf chronicles the demise of prohibition

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If A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition sometimes reads as if it were being written as history was unfolding, that’s because it was. Journalists Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian began working on A New Leaf as the cannabis reform movement was gaining momentum...

CBD madness

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Studying marijuana is tough in this country. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is the exclusive supplier of cannabis used for federally-approved studies....

Let them eat cannabis

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Next month, the country’s first legal cannabis restaurant licensed to serve both weed and food will open in Los Angeles.  Lowell Cafe is opening on...

The Boulder formula: weed and fitness

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Weed and physical fitness are essential parts of the Boulderite identity, which is good news for me, considering toking up before a long run...

Rumblings of change

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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...

Making meals that heal

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Since March of this year, some of Boulder and Denver’s most beloved food establishments have permanently shuttered — The Med, Brasserie Ten Ten, Meadowlark...

Lessons from prohibition about treating marijuana like alcohol

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On Dec. 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified and alcohol prohibition in America came to an end. Although...

The moral of the story is not that John Mayer did...

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You remember him, John Mayer from the 2000s, the understated pop hunk with the hollowed eyes who somehow managed to woo us even though...

Out with the old: Rethinking marijuana as a gateway drug

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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...