Weed Between the Lines
Drug-endangered child bill goes way too far
The Colorado legislature is wrestling with several cannabis-related issues this session...
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...
Mythbusting
At the end of his life, the great mythologist and storyteller Joseph Campbell said, “Go on, live your life, it’s a good life —...
Back-alley deal
It was summer and it was hot. We sought what respite we could from the sun and also from the occasional passerby in the...
Call me converted
Just about as soon as microdosing became trendy, I got skeptical. About a year ago I spent back-to-back weekends coast-to-coast, first in San Francisco...
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 ...
For safety or profit?
Well before Denver’s Initiative 300 passed — a measure to allow public consumption of marijuana — the Colorado Department of Revenue’s (CDOR) Liquor Enforcement...
Booker’s Bill: Using social media to spark conversation
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey has a plan to do what no politician has done before: reverse decades of failed drug policy that...
Law and order
On the afternoon of March 11, I was sitting in the waiting room of my neighborhood dispensary watching people go in and out, occasionally...
People are just people
It’s a sunny afternoon and I’m walking around Boulder trying to find someone experiencing homelessness to talk to about marijuana. Since writing about Gov....
The cannabis debate drifts into the halls of Congress
Last week I wrote about a bill that was then being debated in the Utah state legislature. S.B. 259 would have amended a law passed last year that allowed Utah citizens to use certain strains of CBD-dominate cannabis to treat medical conditions but mandated no legal ...
Fear not
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...
