Weed Between the Lines
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...
The Supreme Court stays out of it
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court declined to hear the case brought by Nebraska and Oklahoma against Colorado over its marijuana legalization law....
Boom times, they are a-changing?
Despite the fact that 33 states have legalized medical marijuana, and a handful have passed laws allowing for adult recreational use, marijuana is still...
Make the green go green
People rip on Boulder County residents because we’ve somehow mastered the art of being bougie while pretending it’s just our humble attempt to save...
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 ...
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...
Savor summer one last time this Labor Day weekend
It pains me to say this, but summer is coming to an end. All the college students are back in town, pumpkin spice lattes...
National news finally taking cannabis legalization seriously
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 ...
Vanessa
Last week was the opening week of NBA basketball, and I was glued to the couch watching the 76ers play the Raptors in Toronto....
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...
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...
Talking policy with Terri Robnett
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...