Christine Tatum.

Amendment 64's passage has energized marijuana opponents like Christine Tatum. An ex-journalist and wife of addiction specialist Dr. Christian Thurstone, Tatum recently went after yours truly for, among other things, failing to contact Thurstone for a post featuring one of his critics. Since then, Tatum has not responded to multiple interview requests from Westword -- but here's more about her complaints and rhetoric that drops hints about a possible link between THC consumption and murders at Columbine High School and the Boston Marathon.

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Coming this weekend: A rave featuring heavy bass, lasers, strobes and...marijuana?

Yes, you read that right -- not ecstasy or another club drug, but good, old-fashioned marijuana.

Pot isn't usually associated with raves, but after this weekend, some rave-goers may think otherwise. That's because on Saturday, Hashman Events is hosting "Canna Rave!, described as "The first ever all-cannabis rave."

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Attorney Rob Corry is frequently quoted in this space due to his role as one of the area's most active and outspoken advocates for marijuana-law reform.

His appearance today is about a far-less flattering matter -- his arrest last week on misdemeanor charges related to his interactions with the owner of a recreational vehicle. Corry allegedly broke the RV's window.

Corry isn't talking at this point -- but here's what we know so far.

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A Durango-area medical marijuana grow operation is finally legal, two years after getting a temporary okay from the county to cultivate cannabis. The La Plata County Board of Commissioners unanimously approved a permanent land-use permit last week for Hesperus Mountain Healers (HMH). The operation was originally granted a temporary land-use permit in June 2011; it expired last summer.

The license could position the grow as a supplier for much of Western Colorado. But is that the plan?

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Despite the growing trend against cannabis use at the start of the last century, certain ethnic groups without any stigma were using cannabis as a medical herb. Among these early medical marijuana fans were the Swedes, of which there was a sizable Colorado population in the 1890s.

This find from an 1897 Svensk Amerkanska Western is technically an advertisement for the Svenska Mediciner pharmacy, but it is still worth pointing out.

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Earlier this week, defense attorneys weighed in on a damning report aimed at the state toxicology lab, which conducts blood tests for cases of driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs. Attorney Rob Corry thinks officials may have waited until June to release the document (it was finished in March) for fear it would undermine the THC driving bill, which passed last month after two failed attempts. Now, NORML wants the state legislature to revisit the law -- and the head of the health department, which oversees the lab, has resigned under pressure.

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Physicians around the world overwhelmingly support medical marijuana, according to a poll conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine last month. Focusing on the hypothetical case of a breast cancer patient undergoing chemotherapy and experiencing pain and heavy nausea, the poll asked doctors if they would recommend cannabis to alleviate symptoms.

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As we've reported, Colorado Attorney General John Suthers determined that a new marijuana-law provision that treated pot magazines like porn was unconstitutional shortly after it was targeted by a pair of lawsuits -- the first from publications like High Times, the second courtesy of the ACLU, representing newsstands and booksellers.

Now, Judge Richard Matsch has issued a permanent injunction against the law; see it below. The cost to the taxpayers over this legal roundelay? Nothing.

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As Colorado moves forward with implementing Amendment 64, ganjapreneurs are busily trying to figure out ways to cash in on what some are predicting will be a million customers in these parts once the recreational retail system gets rolling. Among the brainstorms: marijuana vending machines. But while Colorado's sophisticated pot users may be fine grabbing Cheetohs from such devices, it remains to be seen whether they'll be willing to do the same when it comes to weed.

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Last month's passage of a THC driving bill, following two failed attempts, was achieved thanks to a language tweak that convinced one-time opponents to sign up. But might they have balked if they'd known about alleged problems at the state lab where the blood testing required by the new law will be done?

One marijuana advocate can't help wondering, especially since the report (on view below) wasn't released until Friday even though it was completed in March, during debate over the bill.

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