Weed Between the Lines
The captain of the ship
Implementing legalization was like navigating an unknown sea. When Amendment 64 passed in 2012, Colorado voters essentially pushed their state government into uncharted waters...
The frying pan and the egg
In 1996, my fifth grade class at Mesa Elementary and I earned our sheriff’s badge from Darren the D.A.R.E. lion. We walked across a...
Five years of Amendment 64
On Monday, Nov. 6, hundreds of Colorado’s cannabis A-listers (and beyond) filtered into Denver’s Ritz-Carlton hotel. In came cannabis lawyers Brian Vicente and Christian...
A historic Congressional cannabis vote … or not?
The Rohrabacher-Farr amendment to the 2015 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Bill (HR 4660) passed Friday in the U.S. House of Representatives. It would prohibit the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) or the Department of Justice from using taxpayer ...
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....
The limits to legislating cannabis edibles
The state of Colorado got generally high marks for its initial rollout of recreational cannabis from a Brookings Institute report released last week. Writer John Hudak admitted it’s too early to determine how well legalization will work out, but it praised the state’...
Move over, Ebola: What you should panic about this week
Ah, trick or treating. Remember when your parents let you eat any unwrapped treat you were handed by strangers...
Soothing the change
Diana Roopchand wanted part of her research program at Rutgers University to be focused on a topic specific to women’s health, so she chose...
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...
Growing the voter base
Wana Brands and the League of Women Voters have teamed up to register voters
Risky Business, Part II: Credit cards no longer accepted
"I get asked five times a week by people who want to run Visa and Mastercard through Jane,” says David Ellerstein, CEO of Jane, a...
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...











