Weed Between the Lines
It’s like Reefer Madness all over again
Denver police suspect a man used cannabis before murdering his wife. A young man leaps off a balcony to his death and authorities say a marijuana edible was a factor. Headlines trumpet studies that say young users are susceptible to brain damage and IQ loss by even ...
A new kind of mile-high club opens in Nederland
Amidst all the lunacy over the weekend — Snoop Dogg at Red Rocks on the evening before Easter services, the long lines at the High Times Cannabis Cup, the massive and orderly annual Denver 4/20 celebration and the now annual 4/20 lock-out at CU — another historic ...
Drug-endangered child bill goes way too far
The Colorado legislature is wrestling with several cannabis-related issues this session...
CBS slaps down Weedmaps’ Times Square ad
More good news about the end of cannabis prohibition. A new PEW poll indicates that 75 percent of voters say legalization is a foregone conclusion. Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer, who along with Rep. Jared Polis has been pushing legislation for cannabis ...
Medical cannabis heads toward the tipping point
Weed, the CNN documentary anchored by Dr. Sanjay Gupta that aired last summer, highlighted the case of Charlotte Figi, a Colorado girl whose epileptic seizures were calmed by use of a special strain of cannabis high in cannabidiol, or CBD, a cannabinoid associated ...
Hickenlooper should stay curious about cannabis
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...
A New Leaf chronicles the demise of prohibition
If A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition sometimes reads as if it were being written as history was unfolding, that’s because it was. Journalists Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian began working on A New Leaf as the cannabis reform movement was gaining momentum...
Why not base cannabis treatment on science instead of fear?
First things first: Kudos to Club Ned and the city of Nederland for opening the first cannabis club in Boulder County last week. One of the downsides to the current law is that people aren’t allowed to smoke cannabis anywhere in public or smoke anything inside ...
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...
Terrapin Station opens a new era in Boulder commerce
It might not have been as big a moment as the day retail sales began in Denver on Jan. 1. There were no national media gawking or television cameras rolling last Friday at 8:30 a.m. About 50 or 60 people, some from the Amendment 64 movement, a city councilman, one ...
Heading for a showdown on cannabis and banking?
Almost within minutes of the official announcement, headlines last Friday proclaimed that the Department of Justice and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, in separate issuances, had finally given banks a green ...
Cannabis should not be a controlled substance
As more state legislatures vote to allow medical marijuana use and research, and public approval in the United States for ending the federal ban on cannabis continues to rise, there is still much official opposition. And perhaps the most entrenched opponents are ...
