Marijuana cough: Why do I cough while smoking cannabis?
A reader has developed a marijuana cough in the last few years, and wonders what to do. The Cannabist spoke with a UCLA researcher for the answer.
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Smoker Supply Kit: The necessary, stylish marijuana accessories for a high night out
Smoker Supply Kit: Clubbing, rock shows or just hitting the pub? Pack this essential weed gear for a high night on the town.
Colorado educators concerned about pot in public schools
Colorado teachers and school faculty learn about the shifting attitudes young people have toward marijuana and the ways in which authorities can address this new frontier.
Glass Slipper (marijuana review)
The fragrant Glass Slipper is solid daytime or happy hour smoke for someone looking for a boost in mood. To call the aroma intoxicating doesn’t do it justice.
Ask The Cannabist: Can a tenant grow 100 pot plants in a rental home?
A reader wants to know if a renter claiming to have a license could grow 100 plants at home. Ask the Cannabist reaches out to a lawyer for help.
Iowa CBD oil program: $115,000 spent on about 50 ID cards for patients
Iowa’s medical cannabis oil program has cost the state more than $100,000 to create and issue registration cards to about 50 people, even as the effort has faced criticism that it’s cumbersome and largely useless.
Ask The Cannabist: What’s the best way to transport pot plants?
For a caregiver moving marijuana plants from one facility to another, discretion and proper documentation are key, says a marijuana compliance attorney
Pot legalization group clears hurdle on path to Ohio ballot
A group hoping to put a broad marijuana legalization issue on the Ohio ballot next year has cleared another hurdle.
Update: First medical pot dispensary in Massachusetts opens
The first medical marijuana dispensary in Massachusetts is scheduled to open nearly three years after voters overwhelmingly approved marijuana for medicinal use.
G13 (marijuana review)
The subject of much lore and pop culture fascination (‘American Beauty,’ anyone?), this sample of G13 from a Denver-based caregiver has a Zen-like effect.
Teacher did what? Arrest in Louisiana after students given pot brownies
A former Archbishop Hannan High School teacher turned herself in after being accused of passing out brownies laced with marijuana to two girls.
Colorado medical marijuana laws: Sweeping revisions await gov’s OK
Colorado’s governor is signing into law a new crackdown on medical marijuana.
Praying for Texas marijuana: Boots on the ground in pot’s biggest battlefield
It’s been a mammoth month for Texas marijuana. “In a business where it’s slow to do anything,” one state legislator told us, “we’ve gone light years in the last few months.” But will any of the Lone Star State’s cannabis legislation pan out in 2015? Cannabist columnist Neal Pollack reports from Austin.
Is it ever legal to buy or sell marijuana on Craigslist (and other similar sites)?
A reader asks: “Is it ever legal to buy or sell marijuana on Craigslist?” We spoke with marijuana law/criminal defense attorney Lauren Davis for the answer.
Where do Denver City Council hopefuls stand on pot regs?
Sixteen months after Colorado launched legal recreational marijuana sales, the center of the burgeoning industry in Denver is asking to extend shops’ evening closing hours and revisit the outright ban on public consumption.
Longmont lawmaker wants to allow medical cannabis at school
A Colorado lawmaker says he’s planning a proposal that would allow young medical marijuana patients access to their medication at school.
Colorado patients urge lawmakers to start medical marijuana testing
A Colorado proposal to require safety testing for medical marijuana, same as recreational pot, won unanimous approval Wednesday on its first test in the state Legislature.
Update: Colorado bill to limit home hash oil extraction clears first hurdle
Colorado’s marijuana users would face new limits on making concentrates such as hash oil under a bill that passed its first test Thursday at the state Legislature.
Regulating Colorado marijuana: Top state official expects “some fireworks”
There could be “some fireworks” ahead with changes to Colorado marijuana regulations, says Andrew Freedman, the state director of marijuana coordination.
Competing marijuana legalization campaigns underway in Ohio
Supporters laid out language Monday for broad marijuana legalization in Ohio and began collecting signatures for a 2016 ballot campaign.
Hash oil extraction fires spur law proposals in Colorado, Washington
Alarmed by a rash of explosions and injuries caused when amateurs make hash oil, lawmakers in Colorado and Washington are considering spelling out what’s allowed when it comes to making the concentrated marijuana at home.
Lawsuit targets Denver’s new 36-plant limit for collective pot grows
A lawsuit filed Wednesday takes aim at a fresh Denver ordinance that could shut down dozens of unlicensed nonresidential marijuana-growing collectives by limiting them to growing 36 plants.
32 indicted in massive Colorado marijuana trafficking investigation
Colorado officials have won indictments against 32 people accused of being part of a multimillion-dollar scheme to grow marijuana illegally in Colorado and ship it out of state.
Denver council sets plant limit at 36 for pot-growing collectives
Dozens of unlicensed non-residential marijuana-growing collectives in Denver could have to shut down under a new 36-plant limit approved Monday night by the City Council.
Senate’s bipartisan medical marijuana bill gains additional sponsors
With little fanfare, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has thrown her support behind a historic Senate bill to comprehensively reform medical marijuana at the federal level.
