Weed Between the Lines
The myth of super pot
It’s not your grandfather’s pot,” I keep hearing. Every time I attend a forum or turn on the TV or the Internet, there’s somebody saying that today’s marijuana is fearfully strong and therefore much more dangerous than it used to be. “Studies reveal that marijuana ...
Shaping growth
The color of light plants grow under makes an enormous difference in their physical properties, which is critical knowledge when you’re growing a specific...
Colorado says ‘no’ to medical marijuana for post-traumatic stress
John Evans insists that calling post-traumatic stress a disorder is like cutting yourself and calling the blood a disorder...
Green incentives for the green industry
Every morning as Boulder County wakes up, so do many of the county’s cannabis grows. Between the hours of 8 and 9 a.m., grow...
High hopes for improved reporting on teen marijuana use
When Rocky Mountain Community Radio reporter Bente Birkeland began tracking legal marijuana’s impacts on Colorado teenagers earlier this year, she discovered key data wasn’t available...
Immigrants: Your social media can and will be used against you
This is a two-part column. This week, a story about a recent increase in marijuana-related deportations and how immigrants in Colorado are unduly affected...
The true color of a leaf
A few weeks ago, just as the first leaves were starting to change, I got an invitation to the backyard of an Airbnb for a...
Why not use common sense with edibles?
After reading about all these horrible experiences visitors are having with edibles, I decided to find out what all the fuss was about. Everybody’s heard about Maureen Dowd’s eight hours of hotel terror by now, but even ace cannabis correspondent Jacob Sullum had a ...
The alt-green pharmacy
States with legal weed see dramatic reductions in prescription drug use, suggesting it’s a viable alternative to numerous medications
Street Legal
Drunk driving wasn’t illegal in all 50 states until 1988. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act not only set the age of consumption to...
Pharmaceutical considerations of marijuana edibles
One of the most difficult issues in Colorado’s legal marijuana industry is the regulation of marijuana edibles. There is a risk that unpracticed (or...
The golden years just might go better with pot
So you’re one of the 13 percent of Boulderites who are over 55 years of age. It’s been almost a year and a half since marijuana legalization, and you’ve sat on the sidelines watching the experiment unfold. Maybe you tried it in college. Perhaps you weren’t willing to...
