Weed Between the Lines
Why the indica vs. sativa binary is wrong
Unless you study it, most of everything you’ve heard about cannabis strains is probably a lie. The name of a strain itself tells you...
National news finally taking cannabis legalization seriously
Colorado cannabis was all over mainstream news last weekend. Former Coloradan Harry Smith ran down some of the stories of the first year of legalization on his CNBC Saturday night special, Marijuana Country: The Cannabis Boom. Meanwhile, over at 60 Minutes, Bill ...
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 ...
Burning up: A blunt message from an old stoner to new...
With July’s arrival of Oregon’s pot legalization came legitimization. Pot legitimacy this time around came not through the part-time fig leaf called medical marijuana....
The great indoors
Claims abound about the energy consumption of the legal marijuana industry. The most recent wave comes from a 2016 report from New Frontier, “Illuminating...
Dangers of dirty bongs
There are a lot of things I did in college that I would turn my nose up at today, like going to frat parties...
Puerto Rico governor approves medical marijuana
Another U.S. territory will allow medical marijuana for patients. Puerto Rican Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla signed an executive order this week that authorizes marijuana for certain medical uses under the control of the health department...
Washington takes a different path to cannabis
The state of Washington started selling recreational cannabis last week, producing many of the same headlines that dominated the first few weeks of January sales here in Colorado. There are certainly similarities in the way the two states have approached legalization...
Gray market problems
Without full legalization and federal regulation, consumers will always be at risk of buying tainted or bunk products
Weed web 2.0
Online cannabis sales were legal in Colorado for just over a year thanks to one of the executive orders signed by Gov. Jared Polis...
Buzzed bunnies: The last spurts of ‘Reefer Madness’
The headlines were everywhere. “DEA Warns of Stoned Rabbits if Utah Passes Medical Marijuana” was over a story in The Washington Post. A search for “cannabis bunnies Utah” yielded page after page of rewrites of that same tale with variant headlines about small ...
Your tax dollars at work
Almost a year ago, voters across Colorado weighed in on Proposition BB, deciding whether or not to allow the state to keep the excess...
