Weed Between the Lines
Weed in the rear-view
Things change so fast in the cannabis industry that a year can easily feel like a decade—and 2021 surely did. Laws have been evolving,...
Ganja asana
Cannabis-enhanced yoga might not be everyone’s cup of chai, but the relationship between the plant and the practice goes back to yoga’s very roots....
Gateway drugs, Dutch coffee shops and tax revenue
How many times have you heard the argument that cannabis should remain illegal because it is a “gateway” drug, described as one that increases the risk that a user might try other, harder drugs...
Pass grass, not pathogens
The social aspect of smoking cannabis has always been one of its most basic virtues. It brings people together — at backyard barbecues, at...
Special K education
Therapy clinics offering treatment with ketamine, a dissociative drug used in medical settings for more than 50 years, have started opening up across the...
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 ...
Choosing how to heal
Colorado could have two state-wide psilocybin bills on 2022 ballot—one for legalization and another for decriminalization
This is your brain on drugs
Some recent research out of Ontario, Canada, may have sussed out why marijuana produces such a pleasant experience for some while creating negative sensations...
The United States of cannabis
The recent election yielded massive marijuana reform across the country as four states voted to legalize recreational marijuana and four legalized medical marijuana. Alongside...
Front of the medical middle
New report gives Colorado C+ on access to medical cannabis
It’s like Reefer Madness all over again
Denver police suspect a man used cannabis before murdering his wife. A young man leaps off a balcony to his death and authorities say a marijuana edible was a factor. Headlines trumpet studies that say young users are susceptible to brain damage and IQ loss by even ...
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, ...
