Weed Between the Lines
Five years of Amendment 64
On Monday, Nov. 6, hundreds of Colorado’s cannabis A-listers (and beyond) filtered into Denver’s Ritz-Carlton hotel. In came cannabis lawyers Brian Vicente and Christian...
Weeding out deciet
FTC sends a message to snake-oil CBD companies: it’s coming for you, and it means business
As it turns out, marijuana doesn’t like cancer
When first experimenting in the 1970s, I immediately began reading everything I could on the subject of marijuana. And right from the beginning, what I was finding, especially the material coming from the newly minted Drug Enforcement Agency, was not in sync with ...
Father-daughter politics
A long time ago I learned not to talk politics with my Dad. Instead we embraced a long-term and unspoken agreement to keep our...
Building a platform for national legalization
It is nothing new for Colorado-based cannabis businesses to secure licenses in other states with legal medical or recreational markets. In fact, it is...
Move over, Ebola: What you should panic about this week
Ah, trick or treating. Remember when your parents let you eat any unwrapped treat you were handed by strangers...
Probably better not
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes unfollowing all of my friends on Instagram when they stop posting photos of their old, fun...
The THC Fear Factor
It was great news to hear that New York has decided to legalize medical cannabis...
A black and white difference
In the U.S., Black and white Americans use cannabis at roughly the same rates, according to a 2013 American Civil Liberties Union Report—and yet,...
A different vibe
As a freelancer, my favorite place to work from is my couch. It’s kinda the best because I get all the snack breaks I...
Swapping poppies for chronic
More than 51 million people in the U.S. suffered from chronic pain in 2021, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC). In some...
‘Gazette’ cannabis package serves up purple haze
The Gazette in Colorado Springs last week published a package about cannabis legalization in the state under the banner “Clearing the Haze...