The cannabis lexicon: Terms to know, from A-Z
The world of weed is growing every day. Here’s a compendium of marijuana terms, from the plant to the many ways to consume it and the cannabis culture that surrounds it.
The world of weed is growing every day. Here’s a compendium of marijuana terms, from the plant to the many ways to consume it and the cannabis culture that surrounds it.
For the first time I can remember (insert memory joke here), I’ve felt like I’m too busy to get high lately. As a daily toker for years, this makes frighteningly little sense. I point to examples of high-functioning peers all the time when confronted by the “Pot makes ya dumb!” crowd, yet here I find myself apprehensive to indulge.
Climbing is like a dance: It is easy to tell who is more comfortable, calm, by how they move up the face with rhythm. At first I was frigid and stale at the foot of the cliff. But once I got moving, I stopped thinking,
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.
This Q&A handles readers’ questions on cannabis matters. Topics include recent medical research; honey oil health concerns about residual contaminants; and shop application background checks.
No one can dispute that Denver is the king of cannabis in Colorado. With 75 recreational marijuana stores for the city’s 650,000 residents, the hub of the metro area is well-defined as the epicenter. But for the 2 million living in the suburbs, there are less than a third as many stores.
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra’s first “Classically Cannabis” event began Friday night like any other fine-arts fundraiser — with suit- and dress-wearing attendees politely mingling in a high-ceilinged art gallery, sipping drinks and shaking hands. And then the marijuana came out.
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.
What began several years ago with a trickle of women tiptoeing into the brave, new weed world has turned into a stream in Colorado’s marijuana industry.
Backing down from a five-hour fight over whether industrial hemp farmers should be able to access a new credit union-like arrangement for Colorado marijuana businesses, the state House voted 33-31 to pass a pot banking bill that would create the first cooperative of its kind.
A last-minute legislative effort to create a first-of-its-kind banking cooperative for Colorado’s marijuana industry skipped through the House early Monday, but is headed for an uncertain future in the Senate.
State-licensed marijuana testing labs can no longer test for individuals. That leaves curious consumers, hemp growers and anyone who makes their own oils, edibles and tinctures with little recourse.
If Dave Chappelle is now a purported recluse, you wouldn’t know it by his time in Denver. First, he rolled through town with the Oddball Comedy Festival in September, returning a scant two months later for what felt like at least a hundred shows at Comedy Works.
A late bill to create co-ops to finance the marijuana industry has come back from a near-death experience. House Bill 1398 got off to a strong start Thursday in the House Business Committee, only to get gutted late that evening in the House Finance Committee before House Appropriations restored the original version Friday morning and sent the measure to a vote on the House floor.
Colorado legislators have proposed the creation of financial service cooperatives — the business equivalent of a credit union — for legal marijuana shops as a solution to the vexing issue of how to get banking services to the pot industry.
Federal authorities raided again multiple Denver medical marijuana businesses in dramatic fashion Wednesday — smashing doors, yanking out pot plants and cash, sawing safes open and driving the seized items away in U-Haul trucks.
A return to a private lake in Fort Collins for a sailing outing stirs childhood memories. And a vaporizer session sparks a conversation on life changes: I had grown up sailing this lake with childhood friend Max, but since moving back to Colorado this was my first time sailing and things are different now.
Cannabis cigarettes are now a reality: Forget about the Internet hoaxes. Cranfords is now selling all-marijuana cigarettes in more than 20 Colorado shops.
Since Jacquie Aiche launched her jewelry line in 2005, the marijuana leaf has been a staple for the Los Angeles-based designer, and remains a popular motif.
This Q&A handles readers’ questions on cannabis matters. Topics include businesses that allow pot consumption; getting assistance growing; and strategies for marijuana storage.
Organizers estimate about 5,000-6,000 people came through the gates of a mini-festival outside of Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom that had 26th to 28th streets closed on Welton Street.
It’s the big event — 4/20 itself. We catch up with people at the Cannabis Cup, the Denver 4/20 rally/festival and the ancillary events associated with 4/20 weekend.
It’s official: The 2014 U.S. Cannabis Cup taking over Denver April 19-20 is sold out.
“The fact that we’re exceeding our dreams, we are just jubilant,” said Jen Bernstein, High Times magazine managing editor.
It’s 4/20 weekend, and we have 15 tips on making your weed holiday the best it can be, whether you’re an in-the-know Coloradan or a first-time visitor from out of state. So let’s talk about the concerts, the rally, the Cup, the laws and more.
Only in Colorado can you start 4/20 with a sunrise service and end it with Snoop Dogg – both at Red Rocks. Why not go all out with an adults-only Easter basket filled to the brim with sweets and swag?