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Marijuana news, that is.
We're looking to bring on our second-ever pot-specific intern. You don't need to be a medical marijuana cardholder or anything like that, but some working knowledge of cannabis and the cannabis industry wouldn't hurt your chances of being selected.
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There's an unwritten rule with restaurant critiquing that you don't visit a place in the first month or so after it opens, since the chef needs a few weeks to break in the staff and grow accustomed to the flow of the operation. The same could apply to medical marijuana dispensaries -- except that if you wait until the shop has been open a few weeks, you'll miss all the herb from the initial harvest. Weighing the two arguments, I delayed (until recently) my visit to Good Meds in Lakewood, which opened in February in the spot formerly occupied by Rocky Mountain Ways.
Bud jars at GoodMeds.
Most of the time, I find dispensaries from friend suggestions. This time, it was Google maps -- more specifically, a street-view image of a hippie walking out of the dispensary and clearly being surprised to see the Googlemobile. Pan to the northeast a frame, and homie is flipping the camera the bird.
Google maps.
That doesn't really have anything do with MMD, but it was reason enough for me to stop by -- just to get a look at where Bird Man was caught on candid Internet camera.
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Lawmakers charged with crafting legislation to regulate recreational cannabis use in Colorado have extended their meetings by one week -- but they say they should have a final set of proposals for the legislature April 8.
Why was the original date of March 29 set aside? A big reason has to do with the awful grade given the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division by the state auditor, whose release about its report was entitled "State Oversight of Colorado's Medical Marijuana Industry Ineffective."
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Though cannabis paranoia was alive and well years before this 1921 article was written, marijuana use was still dubbed a "new menace" facing people living along the Mexican border. According to this report, found in the Telluride Daily Journal, pot was thought to be a menace as great as opium. Either they had some really strong herb back in the day that has since disappeared, or (realistically) they were just following the flood of marijuana madness around this time.
Wellness Center of Denver is probably the closest dispensary I've found to the dispensary-less wasteland that is Aurora. 
Due to their proximity to A-Town, the folks there really didn't need to do much more than set up a cash register and fill some jars with warehouse buds.
Instead, they've opted for a fancy weed lounge and retreat that feels more Cherry Creek than Havana Street.
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The active patient numbers for Colorado's medical marijuana community crept slightly higher in January, to 108,656 people, but any significant growth was offset by a pattern of people dropping off the registry each month. Although 2,911 new-patient applications were turned in between December 2012 and this past January, the number of active patients in the Colorado medical marijuana registry only rose by 130. That means as many as 2,781 patients decided not to renew their cards and dropped off the active-patient list -- nearly three times the amount that dropped off the month before.
I've been thinking for the past few weeks that I would take up golf this spring. I don't know why I suddenly like the idea of paying someone so I can walk around a field for hours going from cup to cup, but given the enjoyable outdoor temperatures recently, I figured I would give it a shot. So I snagged my father-in-law's clubs and headed over to the only driving range I know, at the John F. Kennedy golf course in southeast Denver, to chip a few balls, as they say. And before long, I needed some medical treatment.
Tetra Hydro Center.
A Colorado House bill that would create a marijuana responsible-vendor program in the state moved through a second Senate reading Monday without any amendments, paving the way to final approval on a third reading. If passed -- which seems likely at this point -- HB 1061 would allow the state Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division to approve responsible medical marijuana vendor programs. The proposal doesn't require dispensaries to participate in the programs, though. The designation is purely voluntary.
The 4/20 weekend this year is shaping up to be a massive, city-wide event. Not only is the traditional 4/20 political rally again taking at Denver's Civic Center Park, but the crew from High Times has claimed the Mile High as their city of choice for the first-ever Cannabis Cup on American soil.
And now, we've learned of another major pot party from the folks at Boulder-based Incredibowl: The 420 Extravaganga has been announced for April 19 at the Hoodlab, 3354 Larimer Street in Denver.
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