Weed Between the Lines

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...

Hickenlooper should stay curious about cannabis

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Though I don’t always agree with him on issues or know him personally, I generally like our governor. John Hickenlooper seems to be a smart, cautious, curious and honest guy...

Honoring Colorado’s early cannabis entrepreneurs

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There’s a lot of talk these days about cannabis and big business. Corporate entities, cigarette companies and other greedy, moneyed interests, the reasoning goes, are poised to swoop in and kill off the local folks who built the cannabis industry and turn it into ...

Denver murder suspect says the pot made him do it

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A week ago Friday, lawyers for Richard Kirk, a Denver man who is charged with the murder of his wife after eating a cannabis edible during a domestic disturbance in April 2014, changed his original plea from not guilty to not guilty by reason of insanity...

A rose by any other name

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File this one in the “academics have way too much time on their hands” folder. My guess is you didn’t wake up this morning wondering...

Larry Wilmore’s media theory works for cannabis, too

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Last week Larry Wilmore did a skit on The Nightly Show that demonstrated how Fox News can take a falsehood (in the sketch, it’s a poll that shows 58 percent of Americans believe that cop killings are on the rise, when statistics actually show they are falling), give ...

Forget Big Tobacco; Big Marijuana wants to be part of the...

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There has been a persistent rumor, dating back to the 1960s and 1970s, that cigarette companies have been plotting to take over the marijuana industry, were it ever legalized. It’s still around and probably holds on because it doesn’t seem that unreasonable — if they...

Are last week’s medical marijuana busts a sign of weakness or...

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The news was everywhere Nov. 21. Headlines blared that the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and local law-enforcement agents, some in masks, were very publicly executing search warrants on dispensaries and grows and busting up cannabis ...

A rose by any other name…

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Would weed by any other scent still work like weed? What if the weed had no scent indeed? Perhaps the days of the doob tube...

Drug-endangered child bill goes way too far

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The Colorado legislature is wrestling with several cannabis-related issues this session...

Could Boulder price itself out of the pot market?

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I support taxes on sales of marijuana, but I’m scratching my head a little over the latest proposal before the Boulder City Council to place a 15 percent city excise tax on grow and infusion facilities and a 10 percent city sales tax on marijuana on the November ...

Fear not

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Last week, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made a surprise appearance at the New Hampshire Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness regaling middle and high...