Weed Between the Lines
Spark up and enjoy some love
I love Valentine’s Day. Like all the best holidays, it gets a bad rep for its focus on consumerism. It’s usually the haters that end...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
How one congressman could stop DC decriminalization
We should get some indication of how the new Republican Congress feels about cannabis when it convenes in January. The District of Columbia intends to offer Initiative 71, its recent law decriminalizing marijuana possession, to the new Congress as soon as it is ...
The penguin at the tip of the iceberg
We moved from Phoenix to Washington when I was 15 years old where I watched the trees of Washington get lawn-mowed by the logging...
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...


















