Weed Between the Lines

National news finally taking cannabis legalization seriously

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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 ...

Wait and bake

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There’s just something about being on your feet all day and dealing with insufferable people who lie about having trendy food allergies that makes...

Buzzed bunnies: The last spurts of ‘Reefer Madness’

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The headlines were everywhere. “DEA Warns of Stoned Rabbits if Utah Passes Medical Marijuana” was over a story in The Washington Post. A search for “cannabis bunnies Utah” yielded page after page of rewrites of that same tale with variant headlines about small ...

A word to those seniors who are cannabis-curious

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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 ...

Breaking the taboo of menstruation with cannabis

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If I were to ask you how often you felt discomfort or pain and you told me one week out of every month I...

Make the green go green

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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...

To legalize or not to legalize, that is the question

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A record number of states will vote on marijuana initiatives this November. In five states — California, Arizona, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine — voters will...

Terrapin Station opens a new era in Boulder commerce

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It might not have been as big a moment as the day retail sales began in Denver on Jan. 1. There were no national media gawking or television cameras rolling last Friday at 8:30 a.m. About 50 or 60 people, some from the Amendment 64 movement, a city councilman, one ...

Why not base cannabis treatment on science instead of fear?

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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 ...

Words, words, words

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To the general public, the changes in cannabis culture are still novel and the associated language can seem like no big deal. But those...

A New Leaf chronicles the demise of prohibition

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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...

Boulder readies itself for adult retail cannabis

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In its last official gathering on Nov. 12, the late Boulder City Council approved a set of regulations and rules governing the sale of retail cannabis to adults inside the city of Boulder. If good legislation is the kind where nobody comes away completely happy, then...