Harry Smith returns to his Colorado stomping grounds to explore “Marijuana Country: The Cannabis Boom” on CNBC, a one-hour documentary sizing up the state one year after legal sales started.
NBC News contributor Harry Smith returns to his old Colorado stomping grounds to lead a proper tour of the local pot industry. “Marijuana in America: Colorado Pot Rush,” premieres Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. MST on CNBC. It’s either the end of Prohibition II or the beginning of a dangerous social experiment. Viewers will decide.
A new episode of NBC’s “Dateline” airing on June 7 looks at medical marijuana and calls Colorado “a new Lourdes.”
Former first lady of Colorado Dottie Lamm writes: “As a grandmother and long-time child advocate, I am appalled by the increasing availability of edible marijuana products to children.”
Denver businesswoman Amy Dannemiller created her alter ego Jane West for her cannabis enterprises in October 2013. Her hope: Amy would work her 9-to-5 as an event planner for an unnamed national corporation, Jane would anonymously host her monthly bring-your-own-marijuana dinner parties, and never the twain should meet. Click here
One of the mysteries of Colorado’s legal pot experiment remains: Will this take down the black market? One local dealer says his business has been better.
Op-ed: A federal court ruling upholding a ban on gun sales to state-legal marijuana users is a slap in the face. It’s time the NRA helps fight for their rights.
The mainstream cannabis culture gap may be bridged by NBC next year when “Buds,” a comedy set in a Colorado pot dispensary, is likely to be picked up. This would be the first mainstream, prime-time broadcast network scripted series to tackle legal pot head on.
Though the historic step brings marijuana businesses closer to legitimacy in states where pot is already legal, it falls short of the legislative action many banks want to see before doing business with marijuana operators.
