Denver licensing sweep could shutter dozens of medical grow ops July 1
Denver officials could soon shut down as many as 41 medical marijuana businesses as the city cleans up outstanding license applications that have been pending for years.
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Playwright pens, stages new play on Maureen Dowd’s stoney “Denver Hell”
As Denver playwright John Moore considered topics for the play he would write for the Mile High 24-Hour Play Festival on June 7, he came across New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s June 3 piece on getting too stoned on marijuana-infused edibles in Colorado.
Ladies: Would you use this THC-infused oil for heightened orgasms?
The directions for Foria are unlike any other THC-infused product on the market: “Apply 4-8 sprays directly onto the clitoris, inner and outer labia and inside the vagina,” the instructions begin.
Hershey sues Colorado pot candy maker TinctureBelle
Hershey is suing a Colorado marijuana edibles company that makes four pot infused candies that it says closely resembles its iconic products.
Kitchen Kush: One bowl double-almond cake (recipe)
I love baking with almonds. This cake is crazy moist and has a fabulous flavor. The house smells so good when it is baking, you have to come over! And the one bowl thing is a delight.
Column: In Coors brewery’s shadow, Golden bans recreational pot sales
Golden, home to perhaps Colorado’s best-known export, Coors beer, banned another adult substance Colorado has become known for when the city council voted down recreational marijuana sales in city limits.
Denver’s plan for marijuana sales tax money: 22 new jobs
A proposal unveiled Friday by Denver city officials would spend new tax money from recreational marijuana sales to hire 22 employees to expand regulation, licensing and enforcement of the industry.
Opinion: Marijuana limits — it’s a learning process to find happy place
Most Americans learn to drink by a process of trial and error, conducted through well-established rituals and with social support. If marijuana is to be consumed in similar ways, a lot of new consumers will have to learn how to toke.
Yes, there is a “Colorado candy bar incident” entry on Dowd’s Wikipedia
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd has lived an enviable life and crafted an impressive journalistic career that includes a Pulitzer, a Damon Runyon Award and a Woman of the Year nod from Glamour magazine. You can read all about Dowd’s professional achievements on her Wikipedia page, and if you keep reading you’ll also come across a new entry: “2014 Colorado candy bar incident.”
NYT’s Maureen Dowd reacts: In quest for fun, risks downplayed
Embattled New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd reacted on June 5 to the controversy around her June 3 column, where she wrote about a nightmarish experience with too heavy a dose of legal marijuana-infused edibles in Colorado.
Cannabis-infused coffee: Potent Legal brews, sodas will hit shelves in July
Cannabis and coffee, together. It’s a fresh take on the popular stoner rite of passage “wake and bake.” And it makes perfect sense that such a creation is coming out of coffee-crazy Washington state.
Join us for pot forum with industry leaders, Post journalists June 17
Have questions or concerns about recreational marijuana in Colorado? Or are you just a little bit curious about the burgeoning industry that finds its ground zero in Denver? Come to The Denver Post’s marijuana panel on June 17.
Dear Budtender: Remember to take your time and care for patients
As an industry that often decries “Big Pharma,” we’ve all been turned and burned at a number of dispensaries lately. At the risk of being overly didactic: Have we forgotten the true meaning of marijuana in Colorado?
Terrapin Care Station – Folsom Street (rec review)
The recreational shopping experience at Boulder’s Terrapin Care Station – Folsom St. proved a positive one, but the flower quality/price combination was rather disappointing.
Despite ban at Denver airport, no weed seized, zero citations
Signs posted around Denver International Airport warn passengers of stiff fines if they are caught with marijuana. So far, though, Denver police have not cited anyone for possession and have not confiscated any marijuana products since airport officials banned pot in January.
Dixie Elixirs settles MED-a-Mints dispute with divorce
Marijuana edibles company Dixie Elixirs and a Longmont-based maker of pot-infused mints have settled a legal dispute over trademarks and packaging.
Spike in kids’ pot-consumption cases at Children’s Hospital Colorado
The number of children coming into Colorado’s largest pediatric emergency department after accidentally eating marijuana is on pace to more than double last year’s total.
Healing power of hemp? Science vs. semantics
Hemp farmers hold up their crop, marijuana’s non-mind altering cousin, as an industrial miracle for its sustainability and myriad processing applications. Could mainstream medicine be the next frontier for hemp?
Parenting: Family getaway for mountain fun is light on “recreational” options
A mountain getaway to Breckenridge during mud season. A quest to see the sights and smoke some pot while having fun with the family. A challenging endeavor, indeed.
Michelle Malkin: Conservative hero and marijuana advocate (interview)
Michelle Malkin is a conservative hero, yes, but she’s also an advocate for medical (and even recreational) marijuana. Our expansive interview:
1,000 lbs. pot abandoned on Calif. beach, plus boat and Blazer
California law enforcement responded about 8 a.m. to reports that a suspicious boat and white Chevy Blazer had been abandoned near the water’s edge at Pescadero State Beach, authorities said. Inside the Chevy were 42 bales of marijuana weighing between 25 and 30 pounds each.
NPR audio: Might this credit union-styled cannabis co-op actually work?
As we reported late May 7, the Colorado state House narrowly passed a pot banking bill that would create the first cooperative of its kind — and now the bill is on its way to Gov. John Hickenlooper’s desk for approval and, ultimately, a showdown with federal banking regulators. But will it work?
Big TSA seizure at Oakland airport: 81 pounds of cannabis in three suitcases
Flying with marijuana is a conversation we’ve had before, and it’s surely a conversation we’ll have again — like how about right now?
Ghost Train Haze review (Cannabis Cup edition)
If you like a sweet Haze with world-class potency that enhances just about any activity (who doesn’t?), you’d be well-served to check out Ghost Train Haze grown by Denver-based medical dispensary Green Man Cannabis.
Multiple marijuana bills advance in Colorado Legislature
Colorado lawmakers neared agreement Monday on a series of marijuana spending and regulation plans, all modest proposals compared with last year’s splashy set of pot bills to regulate the state’s new industry.
