Weed Between the Lines
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...
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...
Growing the voter base
Wana Brands and the League of Women Voters have teamed up to register voters
Star plants
This August, astrological wonders abound. With Perseid’s meteors whizzing overhead, Mercury in retrograde, a partial lunar eclipse behind us and a full solar eclipse...
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....
Crunching numbers in the cannabis debate
When it comes to statistics, both sides of the cannabis issue have plenty to show off...
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...
MIG helps make marijuana businesses work
Mike Elliott is executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group, a trade association for cannabis businesses based in Denver...
Emergency rule keeps cannabis magazines on the shelves
Probably the strangest paragraph in Colorado’s first attempt to regulate marijuana was the one that stipulated that “magazines whose primary focus is marijuana or marijuana businesses are only sold in retail marijuana stores or behind the counter in establishments ...
Cannabis Cup encapsulates the marijuana culture clash
There was plenty of weed at the Cannabis Cup celebration last weekend in Denver. Billed as the biggest marijuana party in the world, the Cup is a three-day psychedelic mash-up of counter culture, high technology and entrepreneurship, equal parts Woodstock, SXSW, ...
Colorado readies retail regulations while feds dither
When retail cannabis shops open in Colorado, most likely in 2014, adults will be able to buy it over-the-counter in Nederland, which recently approved an ordinance governing the sales of retail marijuana within its borders. “We passed what we feel is a solid piece of...
