Weed Between the Lines
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...
From smokeout to teach-in: harnessing the rebel spirit of 4/20
April 20 is a legendary day in University of Colorado history, when in the past, upwards of 10,000 people would descend on Norlin Quad...
We danced a ghost dance
For any other column, I’d call Gary King by his last name, but we both agreed that’s too formal for our purposes. It’s weird...
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 ...
Ladies of Paradise expand to Denver
They’re impossible to miss, strolling a parade of sequins and smoke rings. Their bright, eccentric outfits are an extension of their personalities; nothing seems...
Our ancestors got high
Smoking weed is an older pastime than you might think. That’s according to research published June 12 in Science Advances that analyzed archeological findings...
Stone your compulsions
Those who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), know that it’s far more than just a random impulse to organize pencils or color code...
Local attorney argues fed laws don’t apply to MMJ
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 ...
Sex on drugs
Spanish study suggests cannabis and alcohol users have better sex—despite some previously mixed research
A theoretical distinction
Prior to the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp was classified as a Schedule I substance, just like marijuana. That bill not only decriminalized hemp containing...
Cannabis gets its day in the capitol
Cannabis is having a moment in the nation’s capitol. This week, lawmakers in Washington D.C. introduced a bill to decriminalize marijuana at the federal...
