Weed Between the Lines
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...
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 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...
Weeding out deciet
FTC sends a message to snake-oil CBD companies: it’s coming for you, and it means business
Faster than the speed of fat
In 2021, cannabis edible company Ripple got curious about the absorption rate of its products, and how that compared to the competition. The folks at...
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...
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 myth of cannabis and teens
I don’t put a lot of faith in surveys, studies or polls, especially on hot-button issues like cannabis, when they are used by advocates or prohibitionists to bolster or attack one point of view or another. I’d like to be able to say, as some are these days, that ...
Not your grandma’s cookbook
If you were to see Robyn Grigg Lawrence’s new cookbook lying out on your grandma’s kitchen table, you probably wouldn’t think twice. The book’s glossy cover shows a plate of pesto pasta garnished with lovely green leafs. Pick up the book and thumb through it and you ...
Fighting chance
New research on U.S. Special Forces suggests psychedelic therapy can help reduce PTSD
Grey matter
Many who suffer from chronic HIV use cannabis to control their symptoms. Anecdotally, patients say it helps reduce nausea, eases anxiety, lifts depression and...
