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...
Boulder readies itself for adult retail cannabis
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...
23andWeed
DNA testing has revolutionized criminal justice and personalized Western medicine over the past decade, and a breed of new companies thinks it can do...
That which shall not be named
On March 25, some Twitter users found that many marijuana-related search terms were being blocked by the platform’s search engine. In addition to marijuana,...
Commercial cannabis at six months: The sky hasn’t fallen
We are just past the six-month point in the state’s roll-out of commercial sales of cannabis, and from all indications, it’s been an unspectacular but successful half a year, especially for a state whose social experiment has been under local and international media ...
Nugs and nuptials
We’re about halfway through wedding season, which is arguably the most arduous part of being 27, right after trying to justify why you don’t...
Risky Business, Part 1: Banking in the marijuana industry
For a bank, analyzing the risk of onboarding a cannabis business as a client is complicated. The legal marijuana industry is emerging and comes...
Criminal
As soon as the wheels touched the tarmac at St. Louis’s Lambert airport, everyone on the plane scrambled for their phones, eager to find...
Make the green go green
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...
What you read about cannabis isn’t always the truth
You remember Keith Kilbey? Well, perhaps not by name, but you probably do remember him. He’s the young man who plowed into two police cars blocking an Adams County exit ramp in January and was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs. Guy was so stoned on ...
Cannabis should not be a controlled substance
As more state legislatures vote to allow medical marijuana use and research, and public approval in the United States for ending the federal ban on cannabis continues to rise, there is still much official opposition. And perhaps the most entrenched opponents are ...
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 ...


















