Weed Between the Lines
On the pot issue, candidates should be listening to their constituents
Marijuana is all the rage these days. Everybody is saying it’s going to be a major campaign issue in 2016, as citizens in many states contemplate initiatives and begin to collect signatures to legalize medical and/or recreational cannabis...
Looking back, looking forward
The fight to end cannabis prohibition continues to be fought, and won, across the country. Every single year more states hop aboard the legalization...
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...
Hemp and the woolly mammoth’s hair piece
It’s no secret that hemp is one of the most misunderstood plants in history. For centuries, it has been used by all kinds of people for all kinds of things — clothing to car construction, bioplastics to building supplies, food to fuel...
Weed warehouse
As business booms in Denver and its thriving economy continues to grow, a stagnant supply of industrial real estate stock is meeting with unprecedented demand, sending prices skyrocketing. The inflated prices create speculation about how the legalization of marijuana...
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 ...
Back from the Dead
There is an undeniable connection between the Grateful Dead and marijuana — the music serving as the soundtrack for the hippie generation and the...
Larry Wilmore’s media theory works for cannabis, too
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 ...
Entering a new era of international drug policy
NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs (UNGASS) convenes this week to debate and accept a resolution reforming the...
The ripple effect
Since Keith Woelfel got into the cannabis sector five years ago, there’s been one thing that’s consistently bewildered him about the industry. Something that...
MIG helps make marijuana businesses work
Mike Elliott is executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group, a trade association for cannabis businesses based in Denver...
Boulder-based company funds CSU research on CBD and canine brain cancer
There’s lots of buzz about the benefits of CBD. The non-psychoactive cannabinoid is everywhere: grocery stores, gas stations, liquor stores. A Gallup survey found...
