Weed Between the Lines
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...
For whom the bowl tolls
A close brush with a drug cop on the far side of the Earth almost ends in a third-world prison
Ken Buck is always wrong about pot
When it comes to marijuana (and most other subjects, but I digress), Ken Buck is always wrong.
Back in 2012, he was wrong about what...
Rep. Jared Polis: Getting past Washington’s war-on-drugs mentality
The elephant in the room of all attempts by states to regulate marijuana is the current federal prohibition, which began in earnest under President Richard Nixon. Federal laws that make smoking marijuana a crime and a Justice Department dragging its feet under ...
Essential weed reads
If you’ve exhausted your summer reading list, never fear: We’ve put together a primer on some of the best pot books out there, several...
Changing times
With the New Year comes my anniversary with Weed Between the Lines. When I first started writing the column two years ago, I approached...
Using data for progress on pot
A recent survey of Colorado youth illuminated how many of our state’s middle and high schoolers are consuming cannabis, and how they’re using it. The...
High achievers
Cannabis was the subject when a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) commit- tee focused on promoting health and wellness for student-athletes convened in Indianapolis...
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 ...
Jonathan Singer an unlikely cannabis advocate
Jonathan Singer is as improbable a cannabis advocate as you’ll ever find. The representative for House District 11 never has been a user and certainly never intended to become a leading voice on behalf of cannabis legalization in Colorado...
Getting to know you
With just over 12 weeks of writing this column, I am still pretty green when it comes to cannabis. I am no expert, rather...
The captain of the ship
Implementing legalization was like navigating an unknown sea. When Amendment 64 passed in 2012, Colorado voters essentially pushed their state government into uncharted waters...
