Weed Between the Lines
The importance of icaros
Medicine songs like the Amazonian icaros are a standard tool used by shamans in ayahuasca-healing ceremonies. Often sung in Spanish, Quechua, or other Amazonian...
The addiction therapy drug
Kevin Franciotti’s heroin addiction was consuming his life. Desperate to help their son, his parents agreed to send him to an ibogaine therapy program...
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 ...
Ladies of Paradise expand to Denver
They’re impossible to miss, strolling a parade of sequins and smoke rings. Their bright, eccentric outfits are an extension of their personalities; nothing seems...
The United States of cannabis
The recent election yielded massive marijuana reform across the country as four states voted to legalize recreational marijuana and four legalized medical marijuana. Alongside...
Partaking in public
Colorado has a lot of cannabis dispensaries. As of 2018 there were just over 14 dispensaries for every 100,000 residents, according to Verilife. There...
Attorneys general to Congress: Let banks work with marijuana businesses
A coalition of 38 state and U.S. territorial attorneys general, led by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, sent a letter to Congress on May...
We need to change the cannabis dialogue
There were a lot of national news stories about the long lines of people standing outside the world´s first adult retail cannabis shops in Colorado. It wasn´t really that difficult to decipher — there were only a small number of shops open on a historic day whipped ...
Weed between the lines
One of the most encouraging pieces in the cannabis legalization puzzle these days is that it’s less a partisan political issue than ever. Republicans use cannabis, and even some who don’t are beginning to see that legalization is a much more sensible approach than ...
It takes a big person to think small
Idly standing at the end of a row of people mixing hempcrete, a building material made of hemp fiber, cement and clay, I started...
Weed gets the votes; pot sales fall; edibles in confusion
It should be no surprise that the working group tasked with coming up with a recommendation to the legislature about how cannabis edibles should be marked ended after four sessions and no consensus...
Wait and bake
There’s just something about being on your feet all day and dealing with insufferable people who lie about having trendy food allergies that makes...
