Normally, in almost all Q&A printed articles, the name of the person asking the question is published. If not, then I assume that the question is one that the article writer invented.

In your recent Q&A about smelling marijuana smoke in a development where he lives, the writer says, “… it still stinks up the whole block.” That is utter nonsense. Dogs can smell “green” marijuana plants from hundreds of feet away; their sense of smell is way more acute than humans. A human would have to be bent over and close to smell anything. Why do you think that people stick their noses into flowers to smell them?

One of the largest comic book retailers in the world is putting its north Denver headquarters on the market — and the owner of Mile High Comics credits the state’s legal marijuana economy for boosting his potential profit.

But the decision to sell the 22,000 square foot warehouse at 2151 W. 56th Ave. in Denver didn’t come easy to Chuck Rozanski, who started the legendary business in his parents’ basement in 1969, when he was 13.

“I wish I could say that I was was prescient about the Denver real estate market,” said Rozanski, “but this is truly a case of luck shining on me and my being extremely fortunate.”

Two-thirds of Mexicans oppose the legalization of marijuana, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday, days after the Supreme Court opened the door to legalizing cannabis.

But 63 percent are in favor of a debate on whether to end the country's marijuana prohibition, according to the survey published by El Universal newspaper.

The telephone poll was taken on November 6 and 7 among 1,000 adults, two days after the top court authorized four individuals to grow marijuana for their personal consumption.

A senator from President Enrique Pena Nieto's governing party introduced a bill Tuesday that would allow patients easier access to cannabis-based medicines, a week after a ruling by Mexico's Supreme Court that cracked open a door to recreational marijuana use.

The measure does not propose wholesale legalization of medical marijuana but rather seeks to permit the importation of cannabis and derivatives for medicinal purposes. Domestic pot production would still be prohibited.

During the last few years, research has conclusively shown that young people who regularly use marijuana usually end up with deformed brains, often losing up to 10 IQ points. In other words, marijuana is highly correlated with abnormal brain development ~ brain damage ~ in young people.

This is a matter of serious concern and these findings form the foundation of government policy to keep young people away from marijuana by generally restricting access to it.

Unfortunately, all the research studies relied on are deeply flawed and examples of bad science. Correlation does not mean causation. Young people are exposed to many factors that affect brain development: tobacco, alcohol, nutrition, etc. These factors were overlooked or ignored by the researchers.

Is smoking weed a human right? Days after voters in the US state of Ohio rejected a proposal to legalise cannabis for recreational use, Mexico has ruled that smoking pot is a fundamental human right.

The Mexican Supreme Court ruled by 4 to 1 that banning the consumption and cultivation of cannabis for personal use violates the human right to free development of one’s personality.

The ruling only applies to the four individuals who brought the case to court, but widespread legalisation may follow.

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Beginning in 2017, high school graduates in a Colorado county will be able to apply for a college scholarship funded by a marijuana tax.

Voters in Pueblo County approved a measure that would incrementally increase taxes on marijuana by 5 percent over the next five years in order to fund college scholarships and other community improvement projects. Funding education via a tax on a recreational drug is something Time called “a concept that probably would have been laughed off as a total joke just a few years ago.”

County officials believe this measure is the first of its nature and are hopeful that this program will allow more families in their community send their children to school.

SILVERTHORNE — Walk into any dispensary in Colorado, and you are likely to find one-gram joints for sale. Along with jars of flower, edibles and concentrates, the pre-rolls have become a staple for pot shops across the state.

At $10-$15, pre-rolls certainly offer customers value and convenience, but as a smokable product — particularly for one or two people — it’s a lot to handle in one sitting.

“We thought it would be really great to have something portable that had just enough for you and a few friends,” Andrew Salini, chief operating officer at High Country Healing, said in a recent interview.

WESTERN BUREAU:

During the Negril launch of Rastafari Rootz Fest at Swept Away resort on Wednesday night, the organisers clarified what they say are misconceptions by the general public that the festival's main focus is the High Times Magazine's Cannabis Cup competition.

Rootz Fest co-organiser Eddie Wray said the Cannabis Cup could be held in Jamaica only because High Times had sought a collaboration to stage it during the festival, which runs from November 12-15 at Long Bay Beach Park, Negril.

Since recreational use of the marijuana has became legal in several states, authorities report a major jump in the number of pot-filled packages being sent through the mail.

Mailing marijuana is a federal crime - even if it originates from a state where the drug is legal. Marijuana by mail has nothing to do with Illinois medical marijuana, which started Monday.

This is the story of illegal marijuana delivered to the doorstep, and experts said most of the marijuana stashed inside mail goes undetected.

The U.S. Postal service handles more than 155 billion pieces of mail a year and more than a billion of that in Chicago. Forty thousand pounds of pot were seized nationwide from the mail last year.