Weed Between the Lines
A misleading distinction
When purchasing cannabis, users are faced with a choice: Do they want an indica high or a sativa high? The distinction (as it was...
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 ...
Unraveling cannabinoids, together
Cannabis has over 120 known cannabinoids—but the only ones we know much of anything about are the two most abundant: THC and CBD (and...
Tip of the psychedelic spear
In November 2022, Colorado took a progressive leap forward when the state passed Proposition 122 to legalize the use of natural psychedelic medicines. Now,...
Shifting perspectives
As cannabis legalization spreads across the country, addiction has become the rallying cry for opposition. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claim...
CBD for strawberries
When Haley Inselberg came across research that showed CBD has antimicrobial effects against MRSA (an antibacterial-resistant “superbug”), the gears inside her head started turning....
Changing hearts and minds
As a burgeoning industry in the U.S., cannabis has a unique opportunity to correct some of the inherent problems that have emerged in the...
From Russia, with hash
With Brittney Griner’s Russian detainment, the U.S. finally has a meaningful reason to pass cannabis reform—but it won’t
People are just people
It’s a sunny afternoon and I’m walking around Boulder trying to find someone experiencing homelessness to talk to about marijuana. Since writing about Gov....
LifeTonic’s ionization drug delivery technology is about to change the edible...
LifeTonic’s heavily patented ionization drug delivery technology is about to change the edible game forever—and Big Pharma is going to be interested.
Five years of Amendment 64
On Monday, Nov. 6, hundreds of Colorado’s cannabis A-listers (and beyond) filtered into Denver’s Ritz-Carlton hotel. In came cannabis lawyers Brian Vicente and Christian...
Under the influence
HB 1325, which determines driving impairment through a blood-level THC test, was passed by the Colorado legislature on May 7. The bill says anyone caught driving with more than five nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood is considered impaired, with the caveat that...
