Weed Between the Lines
On the pot issue, candidates should be listening to their constituents
Marijuana is all the rage these days. Everybody is saying it’s going to be a major campaign issue in 2016, as citizens in many states contemplate initiatives and begin to collect signatures to legalize medical and/or recreational cannabis...
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’...
Rate of use for youth stays steady, but arrest rates increase
The public health implications of marijuana policy reform, especially those in Colorado, have been under scrutiny since legalization of cannabis for adult use in...
Booker’s Bill: Using social media to spark conversation
Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey has a plan to do what no politician has done before: reverse decades of failed drug policy that...
Law and order
On the afternoon of March 11, I was sitting in the waiting room of my neighborhood dispensary watching people go in and out, occasionally...
Opioids, cannabis, scientists and money, lots of it
The numbers are compelling. As Americans seek more relief from pain and companies come up with ever-stronger drugs to ease discomfort, so do mortality rates rise for the growing number of patients who use opioid pain relievers. The Centers for Disease Control and ...
The momentum behind medical marijuana
As the apothecary movement of dispensaries proves the market and merit of medical marijuana, the industry and its consumers find themselves in a grey area. The federal government promises to keep their nose out of state affairs, especially when it comes to the ...
Creating a national cannabis brand might be harder than you think
I ran across several stories about Bethenny Frankel, a reality show personality, who, after apparently being spotted coming out of an Aspen dispensary and tweeting her delight at the experience, is rumored to be wanting to cash in on the cannabis business. Frankel ...
One author’s cannabis journey of discovery
When Bruce Barcott began to research a book about the legalization of marijuana in the United States, one of the first things that concerned him was how he was going to talk with his children about it...
Safety first — and ethical considerations of legalization
No matter how you feel about the legalization of marijuana in Colorado, medically or recreationally, the legal change in status effectively enhanced the freedoms...
Colorado district attorney evolves on marijuana laws
When he started his tenure as district attorney of the 20th Judicial District of Colorado in 2009, Stan Garnett had not given marijuana a lot of thought...
Dunafon an alternative to Hickenlooper/Beauprez
I grew up in a family with Democratic blood, and I’ve voted on that side of the fence more often than not. Though I’ve been registered as an independent for the last decade or so, I voted for John Hickenlooper as governor of Colorado four years ago.Hickenlooper’s ...
