Weed Between the Lines
To legalize or not to legalize, that is the question
A record number of states will vote on marijuana initiatives this November. In five states — California, Arizona, Nevada, Massachusetts and Maine — voters will...
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...
‘For internal use only’
Since 2016, rumors have circulated among cannabis tax experts of an undisclosed playbook the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) uses to audit the cannabis industry....
Moving on from marijuana
Remember the summer before ninth grade when you would sit around a circle at camp getting stoned with the other counselors and talk about...
Dennis McKenna and his beef with religion
Dennis McKenna yawns. He’s at the end of his consciousness cycle, he says, and his body, nothing more than a system of intakes and...
Throwing cannabis to the dogs
New York-based veterinarian Stephen Katz has a totally different clientele than you would see in Boulder, or in most suburbs anywhere.
“I mean, it...
A cannabis ad campaign designed to educate, not frighten
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd took some serious shit earlier this year for a piece she wrote about her scary experience in a Denver hotel room after an overdose of cannabis edibles. She was mocked for being stupid, for not reading the packaging, for not ...
CBD for pets
The word is out about cannabidiol (CBD) and the incredible healing properties it offers humans, but did you know that your dog could benefit...
Nugs and nuptials
We’re about halfway through wedding season, which is arguably the most arduous part of being 27, right after trying to justify why you don’t...
Cannabis taxes a vexing decision
Denver lawyer/activist Robert Corry has become the public face of a campaign to overturn the marijuana taxes proposed by the state legislature for adoption on the November ballot. Amendment AA would place a 15 percent excise tax and a 10 percent sales tax on retail ...
Weed for PTSD
I think most women would agree that this has been a difficult but necessary year for the ongoing debate around consent and toxic male behavior....
The federal catch-22 of cannabis and banking
One vivid memory from my first visit to a retail cannabis shop on Jan. 1 was looking over at the cash register just as an employee handed an enormous wad of bills to a manager, who quickly whisked it off into another room...


















