Weed Between the Lines

‘Gazette’ cannabis package serves up purple haze

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The Gazette in Colorado Springs last week published a package about cannabis legalization in the state under the banner “Clearing the Haze...

A call to action

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In the aftermath of the killing of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile and five Dallas police officers the nation is reeling to make sense of...

As it turns out, marijuana doesn’t like cancer

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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 ...

Talking policy with Terri Robnett

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I sat down to talk with Terri Robnett on the banks of Boulder Creek, and it wasn’t long before a gust of thick, dank cannabis...

MIG helps make marijuana businesses work

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Mike Elliott is executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group, a trade association for cannabis businesses based in Denver...

Wait and bake

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There’s just something about being on your feet all day and dealing with insufferable people who lie about having trendy food allergies that makes...

Boom times, they are a-changing?

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Despite the fact that 33 states have legalized medical marijuana, and a handful have passed laws allowing for adult recreational use, marijuana is still...

Cannabis Cup encapsulates the marijuana culture clash

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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, ...

Growing the voter base

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Wana Brands and the League of Women Voters have teamed up to register voters

Emergency rule keeps cannabis magazines on the shelves

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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 ...

Colorado readies retail regulations while feds dither

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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...

National news finally taking cannabis legalization seriously

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Colorado cannabis was all over mainstream news last weekend. Former Coloradan Harry Smith ran down some of the stories of the first year of legalization on his CNBC Saturday night special, Marijuana Country: The Cannabis Boom. Meanwhile, over at 60 Minutes, Bill ...