| Mile High City, Colo. |
Denver City Council today will be considering a measure that would it a fine of up to $999 and a year in jail for public consumption of marijuana as well as consuming marijuana on your private property if your neighbors happen to smell it and complain. Seriously. For more, check out Denver Westword‘s local coverage.
Westword has also put together a list of five things in Denver that smell worse than cannabis smoke (not that cannabis smoke smells bad to us at all).
| Justin Trudeau. |
The leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, Member of Parliament Justin Trudeau has been honest about his cannabis use in the past few months.
But now he’s drawing attention to the medical cannabis use of thousands of Canadians that is being threatened by law changes that prohibit home cultivation and force patients to purchase from state-regulated outlets. Trudeau has said the changes stem from the current prime minister’s “nanny state” approach to marijuana.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Thursday heard an earful from some wicked-pissed prospective dispensary owners who say that they can’t find a place to do business in the medical marijuana-legal state.
More than 400 people packed the boardroom of a Holiday Inn in Somerville, Mass. yesterday for the first and only public hearing regarding state licensing.
| Cloud vape pen. |
Pen-vapes. Man, we all thought we were pretty stealth at first with them. Taking puffs at baseball games, in restaurants, in airports, on trains, planes and buses. But guess what? It’s no secret that that us ganja tokers figured out how to put cannabis in e-cigarettes anymore. The cat is out of the bag (of sticky-icky).
Case and point: cops in Nassau, New York are testing e-cigarettes for pot when they find one of the devices on suspected drug criminals.
Last week, we told you about the beginning of America’s first hemp harvest in more than fifty years, which started in late September in southeastern Colorado. This past weekend, that harvest continued with 45 volunteers from six different states, who converged on grower Ryan Loflin’s 55-acre hemp plot to finish hand-harvesting his historic plants.
“We had a great group of people,” Loflin says.
Now, he’ll begin the hard work of separating the different parts of the plant and processing them. Denver Westword’s Melanie Asmar has the full story.
| PolicyMic/Alex Marin. |
Which state in the U.S.A. smokes the most herb? Would you believe Alaska? Us either, but according to PolicyMic’s Alex Marin who put together a helpful infographic on the subject, the Last Frontier state consumes more ganja per capita than any of the other 50 states.
Rounding out the top three were Vermont and (no surprise here) Colorado.
Medical marijuana dispensaries will have to apply for the same licenses as legal recreational shops in Seattle, which several activists argue is a move to wipe out medical marijuana dispensaries altogether by forcing the state to adopt the same policy.
Basically, by forcing medical shops to be recreational shops the government is setting the up to be shut down if the feds ever come in and shut everything related to Washington’s I-502 down.
| CCSD. |
| Oklahoma weed. |
Attention clandestine Creek County, Oklahoma outdoor marijuana growers: stop growing your weed where wild game is being hunted.
Late yesterday evening Creek County Sheriff’s deputies got a call from a local narc hunter about a big, green find he had bagged: nearly $1 million in herb. This is the second time in three years police say they’ve found a grow like this in the area.
Over the past month or so, the organization opposed to the marijuana taxation measure Proposition AA has staged rallies in Denver and Boulder at which attendees were given free joints. But did the way No on Prop AA reported about its expenditures break Colorado campaign-finance law?
The watchdog group Colorado Ethics Watch thinks it did and has filed a complaint with the state on the topic. Denver Westword has the details.
| Andrea Sanderlin’s grow operation. |
Andrea Sanderlin, the New York mom accused earlier this summer of running a multimillion dollar marijuana ring, has pled guilty to operating a grow facility in Queens.
Sanderlin, who many in the media joked was the real-life version of the Showtime series “Weeds”, confessed to her “crimes” Tuesday, admitting to running the grow house for nearly four years.