Weed Between the Lines
A New Leaf chronicles the demise of prohibition
If A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition sometimes reads as if it were being written as history was unfolding, that’s because it was. Journalists Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian began working on A New Leaf as the cannabis reform movement was gaining momentum...
For safety or profit?
Well before Denver’s Initiative 300 passed — a measure to allow public consumption of marijuana — the Colorado Department of Revenue’s (CDOR) Liquor Enforcement...
A historic Congressional cannabis vote … or not?
The Rohrabacher-Farr amendment to the 2015 Commerce, Justice and Science Appropriations Bill (HR 4660) passed Friday in the U.S. House of Representatives. It would prohibit the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) or the Department of Justice from using taxpayer ...
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 ...
A warrior lost
We are lucky to live in Colorado.
Sure the mountains and recreation are great but that’s not what I’m talking about.
We are lucky to live...
A warrior lost
We are lucky to live in Colorado.
Sure the mountains and recreation are great but that’s not what I’m talking about.
We are lucky...
Mythbusting
At the end of his life, the great mythologist and storyteller Joseph Campbell said, “Go on, live your life, it’s a good life —...
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...
Cannabis rises to assuage the crimson wave in New York
There is no just description of uterine pain, no words that can adequately express its fury, although something like a star collapsing into a...
Sessions seeks to undo medical marijuana protections
In a letter to legislators made public this week, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked Congress to get rid of laws that have helped...
Flood of bud
This story is part of Our Road to Recovery, our coverage of the 2013 Boulder County floods...
The limits to legislating cannabis edibles
The state of Colorado got generally high marks for its initial rollout of recreational cannabis from a Brookings Institute report released last week. Writer John Hudak admitted it’s too early to determine how well legalization will work out, but it praised the state’...
