Tag: pot
Photos: Legal Weed Day, New Year’s Colorado 2014
oughly 40 shops in Colorado licensed to sell marijuana for recreational use for the first time ever in the United States sold a lot of pot to a lot of happy adults on New Year's Day. Customers waited in lines in towns all across the state.
Littwin: Colorado is not the next Amsterdam
OK, I know. It seems like a drug-fevered dream, something out of Alice in Wonderland, the caterpillar at his hookah, Grace Slick at the...
Election Day Quiz: Do you look like a winner?
It's Election Day, meaning it's time for our first annual election quiz. There will be a prize. We just haven't figured out what it is yet.
Wrong side of polls, wrong side of history
The polls are really bad for congressional Republicans in the wake of the shutdown crisis, but it's history -- the kind still being written -- that may be the party's biggest problem.
ACLU to DOJ: Keep your medical marijuana promises
The ACLU sent a letter this week to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding the Obama administration keep its word not to prosecute people for using medical marijuana in compliance with state and local laws.
Senate kills high-driving bill, cites fuzzy science
The Colorado Senate killed a bill that would have established a legal limit in Colorado to the amount of THC drivers can have in their system. Lawmakers on the right and left who voted against the bill felt they were attempting to make policy without adequate information. House Bill 1261, sponsored in the Senate by Grand Junction Republican Steve King, died 20 nays to 15 ayes.
Video: Boulder 4/20 pot smoke-in sends up a cloud to signal...
BOULDER-- For years, smack-dab in the middle of the University of Colorado campus, this town has hosted one of the biggest annual 4/20 pro-marijuana smoke-ins in the nation. Yesterday's installment, coming amid the great legalized medical marijuana transition in this state, produced a kind of smoke signal sent out to the plains and coast dwellers from the top of the country. There is video, which is good, even though it leaves out the hazy skunk aroma that filled the air for miles and that left even non-participants dialed down.
Renfroe: Call out national guard on pot protesters, confiscate medical cards
Greeley Republican state Senator Scott Renfroe told his Senate colleagues Wednesday during debate on medical marijuana regulation that the large April 20 pro-pot rally...
Feds: There’s no medical marijuana except our medical marijuana
Brian Vicente, executive director of Sensible Colorado, a medical marijuana advocacy group, has said the federal charges filed against Highlands Ranch resident pot grower...
Denver council will seek to structure city’s budding pot business
Lingering legal questions and ambivalent feelings on the part of Colorado's citizenry have made launching a medical marijuana dispensary a significant business risk. But that hasn't stopped a rapidly growing number of medical marijuana entrepreneurs from opening clinics around the state. Real estate developer Ed Kieta, for one, is betting big, having sunk more than $60,000 into the high-end "wellness center" he's opening in the Highland neighborhood of Denver. Kieta likes the fact that he's getting in on the ground floor of the industry, but he hates that the rules governing the industry are murky and incomplete. Kieta is therefore looking forward to the Denver City Council meeting scheduled for Wednesday that aims to put up zoning restrictions and set out basic regulations for the record.