Weed Between the Lines
As it turns out, marijuana doesn’t like cancer
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 ...
‘Gazette’ cannabis package serves up purple haze
The Gazette in Colorado Springs last week published a package about cannabis legalization in the state under the banner “Clearing the Haze...
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....
Building a platform for national legalization
It is nothing new for Colorado-based cannabis businesses to secure licenses in other states with legal medical or recreational markets. In fact, it is...
It’s not your grandfather’s marijuana any more
Assuming some of those 148 stores that were granted state licenses have been able to jump through all the other legislative hoops and actually have their doors open, and the state has been able to get its vaunted “seed-tosale” tracking system up and running (still ...
Attorneys general to Congress: Let banks work with marijuana businesses
A coalition of 38 state and U.S. territorial attorneys general, led by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, sent a letter to Congress on May...
Opioids, cannabis, scientists and money, lots of it
The numbers are compelling. As Americans seek more relief from pain and companies come up with ever-stronger drugs to ease discomfort, so do mortality rates rise for the growing number of patients who use opioid pain relievers. The Centers for Disease Control and ...
Why not base cannabis treatment on science instead of fear?
First things first: Kudos to Club Ned and the city of Nederland for opening the first cannabis club in Boulder County last week. One of the downsides to the current law is that people aren’t allowed to smoke cannabis anywhere in public or smoke anything inside ...
Breaking the taboo of menstruation with cannabis
If I were to ask you how often you felt discomfort or pain and you told me one week out of every month I...
Dunafon an alternative to Hickenlooper/Beauprez
I grew up in a family with Democratic blood, and I’ve voted on that side of the fence more often than not. Though I’ve been registered as an independent for the last decade or so, I voted for John Hickenlooper as governor of Colorado four years ago.Hickenlooper’s ...
Cannabis Cup encapsulates the marijuana culture clash
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, ...
Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3
Experiences with edibles can vary wildly, even when following instructions on the box. Sure, some strains are headier than others, but researchers in Oakland,...