Pubdate: Thu, 29 Oct 2015
Source: Westword (Denver, CO)
Column: Ask A Stoner
Copyright: 2015 Village Voice Media
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Author: Herbert Fuego

DEAR STONER: WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE WAY TO GET HIGH?

Dear Stoner: What is a moratorium? It doesn't seem to be friendly to 
the dispensaries based on my Facebook feed.

Allison

Dear Allison: A moratorium is a temporary prohibition of an activity, 
and Amendment 64 gives local municipalities the right to ban or 
freeze marijuana-related applications, so your Facebook friends might 
be trying to open a pot business somewhere that either has or is 
considering a marijuana moratorium. Although the length of marijuana 
moratoriums and what specific businesses they freeze differ from 
place to place, the reason is the same: to curb the explosion of the 
marijuana industry while local government gets a grip on it. Many 
towns that already have dispensaries, such as Breckenridge, Dillon 
and Idaho Springs, all have moratoriums on new pot-shop applications. 
Some of these moratoriums can squash costly plans that take a lot of 
time and energy to create, but not every local government institutes 
such a ban because it's hostile to legal pot. Pueblo County, for 
instance, has been extremely welcoming to the legal cannabis industry 
and has over a dozen dispensaries and more than three dozen growing 
operations, but new medical or recreational dispensaries can't apply 
for licenses there until 2017 because the county is concerned about 
flooding the market.

Moratoriums aren't specific to marijuana businesses, but the 
industries they target tend to be controversial. Fort Collins passed 
a five-year moratorium on fracking in 2013 (it was later overturned 
by a Larimer County judge), and Boulder County currently has a 
moratorium on applications for oil and gas development until 2018.

Dear Stoner: Favorite way to get high? Blunts, joints, bongs, vape, 
edibles? Or are you a dab man?

Luke Skywalker

Dear Luke: Edibles take too long and are much harder to regulate. 
Dabs are fun on special occasions, but they're usually too much for 
my limited brain to handle. I'm definitely a flower guy. And, yes, 
I'm fine with how that sounds.

In my younger years, it was definitely blunts and bongs. Nothing felt 
cooler than bumping some Notorious B.I.G. or Devin the Dude while 
gutting a Swisher, and bong tokes after work were the ultimate chill. 
Then, about five years ago, my throat started feeling the constant 
punishment of tobacco leaves and snappers, so I grew up a little and 
bought a Volcano, which I use almost daily. It's too much of an 
investment for most ($480 from the manufacturer), but the high and 
the conservation of your herb are incredible.
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MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom