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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.