By "Radical" Russ Belville on February 21, 2009
More than eight years after Colorado voters approved the use of medical marijuana for patients like Gallegos, who suffer from debilitating medical conditions, the issue has again taken center stage. The state is seeking to crack down on caregiver/patient ratios at the same time federal officials are debating whether to continue raiding med-pot dispensaries in [...]
Posted in ABNORML NEWS, ACTIVISM, SCIENCE | Tagged Colorado, pharmaceuticals, registry
By "Radical" Russ Belville on January 8, 2009
Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2009-01-08 Whew! I’m just getting in under the wire to qualify for a Thursday podcast (and long since it was 4:20 am or pm on Thursday anywhere in the world). So much for New Years Resolutions. Interviews got pushed to later times, appointments in the real world had [...]
Posted in NORML SHOW LIVE | Tagged Colorado, dispensaries, Tere Joyce, Warren Edson
By "Radical" Russ Belville on November 13, 2008
Boulder police make pot arrest after NORML meeting : County News : Boulder Daily Camera A University of Denver student was arrested Tuesday night in Boulder on suspicion of marijuana possession after leaving a meeting about medical use of the drug. Michael Joseph Dupree, 19, provided police with a physician’s statement that a medical condition [...]
Posted in ACTIVISM, LAW ENFORCEMENT, SOCIETY | Tagged Colorado, Colorado University
By "Radical" Russ Belville on October 27, 2008
SAFER Choice is sponsoring the MarijuanaBootCamp.com for all activists interested in learning how to fight for marijuana law reform in Colorado. Are you serious abour reforming mariiuana laws in Colorado? If so, please join us for a groundbreaking training event at which you will learn how you can take action to further the movement toward safer, [...]
Posted in ACTIVISM, GOVERNMENT | Tagged Colorado, Denver, MarijuanaBootCamp, SAFER
By "Radical" Russ Belville on October 27, 2008
Taco customer finds marijuana in takeout bag : Local News : The Rocky Mountain News A customer got more than he bargained for – a small bag of suspected marijuana – when he stopped the other night at a Lakewood restaurant to pick up food for his wife, police said. The couple called police after [...]
Posted in ABNORML NEWS, ACTIVISM | Tagged Colorado, Del Taco, Denver
By "Radical" Russ Belville on September 3, 2008
Fort Collins to pot-growing couple: We won’t pay up for dead marijuana plants | coloradoan.com | The Coloradoan, The city of Fort Collins has rejected a local couple’s request for more than $200,000 in compensation for their destroyed marijuana plants. Under the state’s medical marijuana law, Amendment 20, the government is supposed to maintain someone’s [...]
Posted in ACTIVISM, LAW ENFORCEMENT, SCIENCE | Tagged Colorado, Fort Collins, James Masters, Larimer County, Lisa Masters
By "Radical" Russ Belville on September 2, 2008
Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-09-02 It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for! No, not the re-legalization of weed. Less than that. No, not the introduction of industrial hemp. No, not even federal medical marijuana recognition. It’s the return of the Daily Audio Stash after a two-week vacation! (I know. Anti-climactic.) But [...]
Posted in NORML SHOW LIVE | Tagged Colorado, Democratic National Convention, Denver, Hempsters Plant the Seed, Mason Tvert, Michael Henning, SAFER
By "Radical" Russ Belville on August 19, 2008
Stashers, I’m packing up the studio and hitting the road tonight. Cannabis Karri and I are driving from Portland to Boise, stopping for a day to visit family and friends, and then it is off to Denver, Colorado for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. So if you’re wondering where the new Stash is… it isn’t. [...]
Posted in NORML SHOW LIVE | Tagged Colorado, Democratic National Convention, Denver
By "Radical" Russ Belville on June 24, 2008
Download the NORML Daily Audio Stash for 2008-06-24 Today on the Stash NORML Founder Keith Stroup joins us to wish Dr. Lester Grinspoon a happy birthday. Keith calls him the “intellectual leader” of this movement, beginning with his groundbreaking book, Marihuana Reconsidered (back in the day before they put the “j” in!) and to this [...]
Posted in NORML SHOW LIVE | Tagged Colorado, Denver, Dr. Lester Grinspo, Keith Stroup, Mason Tvert, SAFER
By "Radical" Russ Belville on June 24, 2008
MyFox Colorado | Group Wants Pot Allowed in Airport Smoking Lounges DENVER (MyFOXColorado.com) – One pro-marijuana group is calling on the government to allow marijuana in smoking lounges at airports across the country. Cigarette smoking at Denver International Airport and other airports across the country is restricted to smoking lounges. Members of the Denver-based organization [...]
Posted in ACTIVISM, SOCIETY | Tagged airport smoking lounge, Colorado, Denver, SAFER