Weed Between the Lines
Weed warehouse
As business booms in Denver and its thriving economy continues to grow, a stagnant supply of industrial real estate stock is meeting with unprecedented demand, sending prices skyrocketing. The inflated prices create speculation about how the legalization of marijuana...
Public consumption takes a giant step in Alaska
On Nov. 20, Alaska’s Marijuana Control Board voted to allow consumption of cannabis at licensed retail dispensaries. Alaska was the fourth state to legalize cannabis, and if signed into law, it would become the first to allow consumption outside of residential homes ...
Mainstream cannabis comes to Colorado
On Nov. 9, Colorado’s weed scene gained its capstone endorsement — Snoop Dogg launched his very own line of marijuana products including flower, chocolate bars, shatter, wax, drops and other candies...
A word to those seniors who are cannabis-curious
A new medical marijuana dispensary aimed at seniors just jumped through another hoop in its bid for acceptance in Berkeley, California. Hopeful proprietor Sue Taylor says her business, if approved, would provide services for seniors with compatible medical strains ...
On the pot issue, candidates should be listening to their constituents
Marijuana is all the rage these days. Everybody is saying it’s going to be a major campaign issue in 2016, as citizens in many states contemplate initiatives and begin to collect signatures to legalize medical and/or recreational cannabis...
Council needs to clarify the ‘incidental advertising’ issue
What a long, strange trip it’s become, even though it’s just been a little more than a month...
New schools or a cup of coffee?
In 2013, Colorado voters passed proposition AA, permitting the state to charge a retail marijuana tax as a follow-up to 2012’s Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana in Colorado. The passing of Amendment 64 and the subsequent passing of Proposition AA were enticing ...
Pot and pesticides, Part II
Boulder Weekly brings you this report in partnership with Rocky Mountain PBS I-News. Learn more at rmpbs.org/news...
Pot and pesticides, Part I
Boulder Weekly brings you this report in partnership with Rocky Mountain PBS I-News. Learn more at rmpbs.org/news...
Vote ‘Yes’ on Prop. BB, and attend the Cannabis Forum
Among the reasons I supported Amendment 64 was the provision that the first $40 million of tax revenues each year would go toward school construction projects. There are schools in our state that need it, and I liked the tie-in to education. What I and many others ...
Council rethinks its approach to marijuana
Boulder City Council is considering broad changes to its marijuana rules and regulations. The first reading was Sept. 30, with a second reading scheduled for later this month or early November. And this time around, it appears that Council wants to help rather than ...
Denver murder suspect says the pot made him do it
A week ago Friday, lawyers for Richard Kirk, a Denver man who is charged with the murder of his wife after eating a cannabis edible during a domestic disturbance in April 2014, changed his original plea from not guilty to not guilty by reason of insanity...
