Weed Between the Lines
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Flood of bud
This story is part of Our Road to Recovery, our coverage of the 2013 Boulder County floods...
Colorado district attorney evolves on marijuana laws
When he started his tenure as district attorney of the 20th Judicial District of Colorado in 2009, Stan Garnett had not given marijuana a lot of thought...
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 ...
Getting baked on a specially smoked salmon
So I’m on the D train rolling north on Welton Street in Denver when I come across a headline that mentions “THC-infused smoked salmon.” I’m intrigued, since it involves two of my favorite things, and even more so when I notice the Huffington Post story is about a ...
Creating a national cannabis brand might be harder than you think
I ran across several stories about Bethenny Frankel, a reality show personality, who, after apparently being spotted coming out of an Aspen dispensary and tweeting her delight at the experience, is rumored to be wanting to cash in on the cannabis business. Frankel ...
One author’s cannabis journey of discovery
When Bruce Barcott began to research a book about the legalization of marijuana in the United States, one of the first things that concerned him was how he was going to talk with his children about it...
Are last week’s medical marijuana busts a sign of weakness or...
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 ...
The alcohol-marijuana conundrum
One of the things that has fascinated me over the years is why so many people are so intent on not allowing me or millions of other Americans to use marijuana...
