Weed Between the Lines
Heading into uncharted territory
Last week Colorado became the first U.S. state to adopt a set of rules that allows marijuana to be regulated like alcohol for adults. Legislators, task force members and all involved are to be congratulated for doing it in accordance with Amendment 64’s spirit and ...
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...
The right way to celebrate 420
Another April 20 is upon us, aka 420 aka the day for getting baked out of your mind and eating approximately 10,000 bowls of...
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...
Boulder marijuana sales tax revenues on the rise
The City of Boulder released its latest sales and use tax revenue report in July. It compares tax revenues from January to May of 2014 to the same period this year. The numbers show that Boulder is booming. Total sales tax revenue is up an impressive 6 percent from ...
Cannabis is legal. Where and when will we be able to...
If Amendment 64 supporters needed a reminder that almost 45 percent of Coloradans voted against legalizing cannabis, the Colorado Springs City Council’s ban on retail stores came with a caveat: Mayor Steve Bach said that as long as he was in charge, he would veto any...
Flowers for an opioid crisis
Legal cannabis isn’t just raking in tens of millions in tax revenue every month. It isn’t just helping ease the suffering of patients with...
That one time in Nebraska
This is a picture of me, stopped at a red light, with two marijuana plants in the back of my truck. They needed to...
Guiding a growing industry
When the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA) approached Kaitlin Urso last year about writing the recently released “Environmental Impacts, Best Management Practices and Policies...
Too high?
By David HilzenrathKFF Health News
Marijuana and other products containing THC, the plant’s main psychoactive ingredient, have grown more potent and more dangerous as legalization...
One toke over the bubble machine: Lawrence Welk scores!
Finding out that contemporary Nashville musicians are including cannabis in their songwriting got me to thinking about how cannabis made its way into popular songs and culture...
Lessons from Colorado
New Jersey recently joined the growing ranks of states legalizing cannabis, with Gov. Phil Murphy signing legal recreational marijuana into law on Feb. 22....
