Weed Between the Lines
A double-edged sword
Cannabis is often anecdotally associated with creativity. Artists, musicians, writers, and many other creative types often use it, and claim that it helps them...
The new preference
During Colorado’s 2022-23 fiscal year, the state collected more sales tax revenue from cannabis than it did from both cigarettes and alcohol, according to...
After Effects
One of the most common arguments supporting drug-testing policies is the idea of the cannabis “hangover”: sluggishness, grogginess, confusion and disorientation that supposedly follow...
Why not base cannabis treatment on science instead of fear?
First things first: Kudos to Club Ned and the city of Nederland for opening the first cannabis club in Boulder County last week. One of the downsides to the current law is that people aren’t allowed to smoke cannabis anywhere in public or smoke anything inside ...
The moral of the story is not that John Mayer did...
You remember him, John Mayer from the 2000s, the understated pop hunk with the hollowed eyes who somehow managed to woo us even though...
The history of hemp
Under current U.S. drug policy, all cannabis varieties, including hemp, are considered Schedule I controlled substances and are regulated by the Drug Enforcement Administration....
It’s not your grandfather’s marijuana any more
Assuming some of those 148 stores that were granted state licenses have been able to jump through all the other legislative hoops and actually have their doors open, and the state has been able to get its vaunted “seed-tosale” tracking system up and running (still ...
Front of the medical middle
New report gives Colorado C+ on access to medical cannabis
Enlisting stoners
As a branch of the federal government, the U.S. Army frowns on all things marijuana. For decades, if someone wanted to serve this country,...
Creating a national cannabis brand might be harder than you think
I ran across several stories about Bethenny Frankel, a reality show personality, who, after apparently being spotted coming out of an Aspen dispensary and tweeting her delight at the experience, is rumored to be wanting to cash in on the cannabis business. Frankel ...
Cannabis used for federally funded research is ditchweed
In case you were looking for more ways to be embarrassed by the federal government, you can add “growing brick weed” to the list....
The wrong labels
Indica, sativa, hybrid. Walk into any Colorado dispensary and the products on the shelves will be classified under one of those three familiar categories....