Weed Between the Lines
Rumblings of change
A leaked letter between a top official from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) and Anne Milgram, head of the Drug Enforcement...
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 ...
Entering a new era of international drug policy
NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs (UNGASS) convenes this week to debate and accept a resolution reforming the...
Weed in the rear-view
Things change so fast in the cannabis industry that a year can easily feel like a decade—and 2021 surely did. Laws have been evolving,...
Boulder backs off on ‘lab rat’ campaign
I reported last week that the Boulder Valley School District, which I wouldn’t call a pro-cannabis organization, announced after careful consideration that it wouldn’t support Gov. John Hickenlooper’s “Don’t Be a Lab Rat” campaign to scare teenagers into not using ...
Talking policy with Terri Robnett
I sat down to talk with Terri Robnett on the banks of Boulder Creek, and it wasn’t long before a gust of thick, dank cannabis...
The DMT Expeditions
There are two main ways in which people ingest DMT (N,N-Dimethyltryptamine). But researchers are pursuing a third method of ingestion that will allow them...
The importance of icaros
Medicine songs like the Amazonian icaros are a standard tool used by shamans in ayahuasca-healing ceremonies. Often sung in Spanish, Quechua, or other Amazonian...
Attorneys general to Congress: Let banks work with marijuana businesses
A coalition of 38 state and U.S. territorial attorneys general, led by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, sent a letter to Congress on May...
Pot and pesticides, Part I
Boulder Weekly brings you this report in partnership with Rocky Mountain PBS I-News. Learn more at rmpbs.org/news...
Buzzed bunnies: The last spurts of ‘Reefer Madness’
The headlines were everywhere. “DEA Warns of Stoned Rabbits if Utah Passes Medical Marijuana” was over a story in The Washington Post. A search for “cannabis bunnies Utah” yielded page after page of rewrites of that same tale with variant headlines about small ...
Election fallout in the green industry
If anything was actually clear on election night, it was the American people’s will to legalize cannabis.
New Jersey, Montana, South Dakota and Arizona all...
