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Medical marijuana
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Cannabytes: MMJ Patient Interview
This week I interviewed a medical marijuana user from Loveland. At 53, she leads an active lifestyle, is fit, and works out frequently. She suffers from back pain due to scoliosis and has been using marijuana for almost five months to ease her pain.
January 29, 2011
Cannabytes: Feds continue to raid dispensaries
The drug store’s stereo system filled the store with a mix of top 40. Behind the counter, lab…
January 22, 2011
Cannabytes: Violating MMJ patients’ privacy
The Colorado Department of Revenue wants to give government agencies, including the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, access to registered medical marijuana patients' information. As a violation of patients' rights and Colorado Constitutional law, this must be stopped.
January 15, 2011
Cannabytes: MMJ laws to blame for teen use?
Experts at the Denver Health Medical Center claim that medical marijuana laws promote pot use to teens. Well,…
January 8, 2011
Not-So-New Intentions
New Year’s Day is a semi-arbitrary holiday. Sure, our calendar year is based on Earth’s journey around the…
January 1, 2011
MMJ DJ: Mix Master Mike
Mix Master Mike--The Serial Wax Killer--shares the bill with Mickey Avalon, Asher Roth and Denver's own Flobots this weekend at KushCon II, a medical marijuana convention at The Denver Convention Center.
December 13, 2010
Brain Pickin’: Jim Breuer – Goats, Stallone & MMJ
Whether you watched Jim Breuer from your couch on SNL with The Joe Pesci Show or Goat Boy;…
October 11, 2010
Cannabytes: Kindness Opens Doors, Minds & More 9/24
Kindness, a new kind of medical cannabis center, opened its doors recently on the corner of Colfax and…
September 22, 2010
Cannabytes: Cypress Hill
Although I've witnessed more than one 4/20 rally since, the first time I'd ever seen anyone openly and defiantly smoke pot in public was at Lollapalooza. Members of Cypress Hill were the perpetrators of the civil disobedience in question. Fiddler's Green security guards looked the other way, probably because greenbacks put their bosses in the black. Simple as that. Mile High Music Festival staff will likely follow similar protocol (“potocol�) this weekend when the hip hop outfit blazes into Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
August 9, 2010
Boob Tubin’: Daily Show Gets “Mile High”
Adam Arete had a dream. The Denver music producer's fantasy might not have been on par with Martin Luther King's, but it was certainly within reach. Arete was prescribed sunglasses in eighth grade to curb chronic migraines, but “sticky icky†does the trick these days. When he stumbled into Suite 420 of a converted warehouse—the site of a medical marijuana dispensary called The Apothecary—recently, wearing a Velcro City Records hoodie and his now trademark dark shades (not exactly an old lady with glaucoma), he immediately recognized Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones.
May 5, 2010