Smart Colorado is now openly obstructing the hearing process for marijuana stores in Denver, and certain members of the Denver City Council are more than willing to enable them. City Council members who lost in committee and lost in Council,… Read More ›
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Blast from the Past: Voters approve medical marijuana
Voters approve medical marijuana November 8, 2000 By Kevin Flynn Denver Rocky Mountain News Staff Writer It will soon be legal for some chronically ill people to possess and use marijuana in Colorado. However, it still will be illegal for… Read More ›
The Scandal of Racist Marijuana Arrests—and What To Do About It (The Nation)
The federal government has subsidized the criminalization of millions of young people simply for having a small amount of pot. Why are marijuana arrests so racially skewed? Such dramatic and widespread racial disparities are clearly not the product of personal… Read More ›
Baking Bad: A Potted History of ‘High Times’
The editors of the nation’s most popular pot magazine on its four decades-long fight to end cannabis prohibition. High Times was conceived in classic outlaw fashion. Founded by a successful pot smuggler and radical ’60s activist named Thomas King Forçade, it… Read More ›
Denver Mayor Hancock wants to protect people from being offended by marijuana
Today my husband and I attended Mayor Hancock’s Cabinet in the Community Breakfast in Councilwoman Susan Shepherd’s District 1. There was a sizable crowd; a few familiar politicos like Police Chief Robert White, Rep. Dan Pabon and Councilwoman Debbie Ortega, but… Read More ›
Marijuana and the Modern Lady: Time to Step Out of the Closet
Women are key to ending the drug war. But with males on the Colorado Medical Marijuana Registry outnumbering females 2 to 1, women are missing out on an effective treatment for so many of the conditions we suffer from like… Read More ›
Scooter on Medical Cannabis
My 15 year old Rat Terrier Scooter is blind and nearly deaf. I give him a small dose of cannabis in his food every other day. He is so happy and healthy. I’ve been very busy the last couple of… Read More ›
Medical marijuana stats update: Number of kids on registry nearly doubles in two months
Interestingly, the number of minors on the [Colorado medical marijuana] registry has been increasing rapidly. In June, there were only 35 kids under age eighteen on the registry with parent and doctor approval. By the end of August, that number… Read More ›
Marijuana Facts Infographic – The Hidden Agenda Behind the War on Drugs
Don’t be fooled – facts don’t lie. Marijuana was not classified as an illegal Schedule 1 Controlled Substance because of it’s harmful effects, but rather because of greedy big business and the Nixon administration and their War On Controlling the… Read More ›
Regulate like alcohol? Tax like tobacco?
I end up sitting through a lot of discussions about taxing marijuana. Most of the reasoning has to do with paying for the high social costs of legalizing marijuana. Therefore, they say, we need a “sin tax” to compensate for… Read More ›
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