Weed Between the Lines
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....
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, ...
Boulder profits from first year of legal cannabis
The Colorado Department of Revenue released a comprehensive report on its first year of retail cannabis operations. It’s probably not as compelling as the latest cat video, but it’s pretty fascinating if you’re interested in seeing how legal marijuana actually fared ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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’...
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 New Leaf chronicles the demise of prohibition
If A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition sometimes reads as if it were being written as history was unfolding, that’s because it was. Journalists Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian began working on A New Leaf as the cannabis reform movement was gaining momentum...
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...
A word to those seniors who are cannabis-curious
A new medical marijuana dispensary aimed at seniors just jumped through another hoop in its bid for acceptance in Berkeley, California. Hopeful proprietor Sue Taylor says her business, if approved, would provide services for seniors with compatible medical strains ...
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...
