Weed Between the Lines
Is Denver ready to allow limited public cannabis consumption?
A recent survey from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment found that 13.6 percent of Coloradans admitted to using marijuana in the last month, about twice the 7.4 percent of Americans who acknowledge using cannabis on national surveys...
Better living through automation
As the marijuana industry scales up across the globe, technology is rising to meet the occasion.
That’s right, friends: Robots are going to be harvesting...
Looking good on paper
Legalizing marijuana is not a one-size-fits-all process for states.
Some cautious states are choosing to only legalize medicinally, while their neighbors leap at the opportunity...
Will CU become the center of the universe for cannabis?
How ironic would it be if the University of Colorado Boulder became the world’s leading university to study cannabis...
My cannabis poll is better than yours
Next time you read or watch a news story about a survey or poll, stop reading or turn it off. It doesn’t mean anything. It won’t help you understand anything. You’re better off watching videos of parkouring goats or hawks knocking drones out of the sky...
Weed in the rear-view
Things change so fast in the cannabis industry that a year can easily feel like a decade—and 2021 surely did. Laws have been evolving,...
Denver murder suspect says the pot made him do it
A week ago Friday, lawyers for Richard Kirk, a Denver man who is charged with the murder of his wife after eating a cannabis edible during a domestic disturbance in April 2014, changed his original plea from not guilty to not guilty by reason of insanity...
Stone your compulsions
Those who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), know that it’s far more than just a random impulse to organize pencils or color code...
Jonathan Singer an unlikely cannabis advocate
Jonathan Singer is as improbable a cannabis advocate as you’ll ever find. The representative for House District 11 never has been a user and certainly never intended to become a leading voice on behalf of cannabis legalization in Colorado...
The momentum behind medical marijuana
As the apothecary movement of dispensaries proves the market and merit of medical marijuana, the industry and its consumers find themselves in a grey area. The federal government promises to keep their nose out of state affairs, especially when it comes to the ...
Oregon’s legalization process begins
On Wednesday, Measure 91, the first part of the ballot initiative approved by 56 percent of Oregon voters in November, officially took effect. The state, which, in 1998 became the second to pass a medical marijuana statute, joins Colorado, Washington and Alaska (...
We danced a ghost dance
For any other column, I’d call Gary King by his last name, but we both agreed that’s too formal for our purposes. It’s weird...

















