Weed Between the Lines
Sacrament
Daniel McQueen makes a bold statement: Cannabis sativa can produce an experience as deep and profound as those induced by psychedelics.
As the proprietor...
Turn and face the strange ch-ch-changes
On Nov. 6, 54.8 percent of Colorado voters passed Amendment 64, The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, which allows adults to possess, consume, buy and grow marijuana in small quantities for personal use. Washington state passed a similar law that day, the first ...
Is Colorado’s MMJ patient registry being shared with law enforcement?
Among the many troubling findings of a report from the Office of the State Auditor on the administration of the state medical marijuana regulatory system is that confidential information about medical marijuana patients has and is being shared, possibly ...
Rep. Jared Polis: Getting past Washington’s war-on-drugs mentality
The elephant in the room of all attempts by states to regulate marijuana is the current federal prohibition, which began in earnest under President Richard Nixon. Federal laws that make smoking marijuana a crime and a Justice Department dragging its feet under ...
January pot politics roundup
Looks like 2019 is shaping up to be a new level of hell that none of us were prepared for. In this week’s episode...
Choosing how to heal
Colorado could have two state-wide psilocybin bills on 2022 ballot—one for legalization and another for decriminalization
Under the influence
HB 1325, which determines driving impairment through a blood-level THC test, was passed by the Colorado legislature on May 7. The bill says anyone caught driving with more than five nanograms of THC per milliliter of blood is considered impaired, with the caveat that...
Taking a tolerance break
"I can never tell when you’re high. You don’t act any different,” a friend said to me last weekend. We had taken a day...
An existential remedy
A cancer diagnosis is a heavy reality, no matter what type or which stage. More than a quarter of patients surveyed by the American...
For whom the bowl tolls
A close brush with a drug cop on the far side of the Earth almost ends in a third-world prison
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...
The wrong labels
Indica, sativa, hybrid. Walk into any Colorado dispensary and the products on the shelves will be classified under one of those three familiar categories....
