Weed Between the Lines
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 ...
The great indoors
Claims abound about the energy consumption of the legal marijuana industry. The most recent wave comes from a 2016 report from New Frontier, “Illuminating...
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...
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...
FBI learns that the best and brightest aren’t always the straightest
He’s tried to back off from his comment a bit, but FBI Director James Comey rather candidly admitted recently that his organization, tasked with hiring hackers to fight cybercrime, is having a hard time finding good employees who don’t use cannabis...
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
Crunching numbers in the cannabis debate
When it comes to statistics, both sides of the cannabis issue have plenty to show off...
A call to action
In the aftermath of the killing of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and five Dallas police officers the nation is reeling to make sense of...
Growing the voter base
Wana Brands and the League of Women Voters have teamed up to register voters
Setting Spicer straight
On Feb. 23, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer spoke about greater enforcement of federal marijuana laws, insinuating a connection between recreational marijuana and...
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 ...
1,000 galaxies
Close your eyes,” Daniel McQueen urges a crowd of more than 500 people at the Boulder Theater at the second annual Psychedelic Shine conference....
