A congressman is demanding to know what role a federal banking regulator had in the quick withdrawal of Oregon-based MBank’s offer to take on Colorado-based marijuana businesses.
On Denver International Airport’s ban on pot-themed souvenirs: It’s not our airport’s job to be an advocate for legalization, but it would be nice if this major entry point to the state didn’t send the message that we should be embarrassed by it.
The approval of a sixth marijuana shop in Edgewater came as a surprise to many residents and city leaders, who thought zoning and buffer zones constricted the number of businesses to five.
A state Senate committee gave first approval for additional sales taxes on retail marijuana that voters in Adams and Pueblo counties already have approved.
Dozens of recreational marijuana businesses in Washington state have been sent letters from the military saying the shops are off limits to all members of the armed forces.
For the past 13 years a New Mexico woman drove a van that unbeknownst to her had more than 13 pounds of marijuana hidden in one of the vehicle’s side doors.
At ‘Gilroy Furniture & More,” it turns out only the second offering was true. The downtown storefront in Gilroy, California, was never an operating business but rather a well-disguised indoor marijuana grow housing with more than 1,000 pot plants.
Colorado’s marijuana experiment was designed to raise revenue for the state and its schools, but a state law may put some of the tax money directly into residents’ pockets, causing quite a headache for lawmakers.
Adams County selected 10 entrepreneurs Tuesday afternoon to begin the process to open a marijuana business in an unincorporated area of the county.
Colorado’s Adams County is being cautious in its own marijuana microcosm. The county will license 10 businesses to grow, sell, test and infuse marijuana in unincorporated areas of Adams County — and they received a whopping 1,608 applications for those 10 spots.
On Jan. 27, Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson sent a column titled “Why sue Colorado?” to newspapers throughout the region. The column reads like an open letter — addressing Nebraska and Oklahoma’s petition to the U.S. Supreme Court to overrule the Colorado laws allowing legal pot sales.
The Wheat Ridge City Council put an end to months of debate over how the sale of marijuana should be managed, passing a measure limiting the number of cannabis businesses that can open in the city and setting distance buffers from schools and parks.
The Oregon community bank that a week ago openly welcomed Colorado marijuana industry customers has changed its mind, publicly saying it doesn’t have the infrastructure to handle the overwhelming response for service.
On the same November day that saw more than 1 million people in Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C., vote to legalize recreational marijuana, a popular social media app rooted in the cannabis space was removed from Apple’s massive commercial marketplace known as the App Store.
The Oregon bank that swung open its doors to Colorado’s legal-marijuana industry has had a long history of financial problems that only recently appear to be subsiding.
Denver police say one man was arrested and more than 70 pounds of marijuana and 20 firearms were recovered following an undercover operation on Thursday and Friday.
Marijuana-related calls to poison control centers in Washington and Colorado have spiked since the states began allowing legal sales last year, with an especially troubling increase in calls concerning young children.
Adams County received 1,608 applications in less than three weeks from people interested in opening one of 10 marijuana business in unincorporated areas.
President Obama says he expects more states to experiment with marijuana legalization. In an interview conducted by a handful of YouTube stars, Obama discussed the fragmented policy surrounding the plant, which is regulated differently state by state.
Colorado’s rules regarding medical marijuana should be brought in line to match those around recreational pot, writes The Denver Post editorial board. It makes no sense, for example, that the state requires the testing of retail marijuana for contaminants, potency and homogeneity but not medical marijuana.
The case of an Australian father who is facing prison for allegedly giving his cancer-stricken 2-year-old daughter cannabis to relieve her pain has triggered a groundswell of momentum for a campaign to legalize marijuana for medical purposes in the country.
A long-standing fixture in Aspen’s underground, marijuana will celebrate a coming-out of sorts this week. At last year’s Winter X Games in Aspen, the closest recreational marijuana shop to the extreme sporting action on Buttermilk’s slopes was at least 30 miles away. The town now has five pot shops downtown as the 2015 Winter X Games takes over this week.
Colorado medical marijuana: Only one of the 15 recommendations for rule changes presented by the Department of Regulatory Agencies got a yes or a no by the Senate Finance Committee; the rest will be debated later.
A Rifle police officer about to make a traffic stop early Wednesday held off when he thought he saw a child had fallen out of the vehicle he was following, only to find the child was really a backpack full of drugs.
An Oregon bank is openly offering service to the marijuana industry in Colorado at a time when banks here are lurking mostly in the shadows. While some analysts see the announcement as somewhat brazen, MBank officials say they’re confident it’s a good idea.
Denver did the right thing when it denied a request to allow the annual 4/20 marijuana fest in Civic Center to stretch from Saturday and Sunday into the following Monday.
The Grand County Board of Commissioners has approved six marijuana licenses for a new facility in Tabernash.
Two years into recreational marijuana legalization, Colorado is taking a second look at its rules for medical marijuana.
Schools are starting to help prep students on pot policy, including the University of Denver, Harvard, Hofstra and other prestigious universities. “From the conflicts of state and federal law, to securities law, to ethics, it’s all in play,” says DU law professor Sam Kamin.
Imagine the country’s biggest 4/20 Rally in Denver … not happening on April 20 actual. It’s looking like the big Colorado rally will take place on April 18-19 in 2015 — and not on April 20, according to the city and county of Denver.
A man is wanted in a November hash oil manufacturing explosion and house fire at his Black Hawk-area home that killed one of his dogs and left him injured.
The fight over growing marijuana in Silt has intensified, with a residents group that blocked a proposed grow site earlier this week vowing on its Facebook page to stop such an operation anywhere in town and posting that the operator of the business “only cares about herself and her money.”
As Oregon and Alaska gear up to implement the will of their voters to legalize recreational cannabis use, they would be well served to look to Colorado pot for guidance. An opinion piece from O.penVape CEO Gary Ross.
Washington’s legal marijuana market opened last summer to a dearth of weed. Some stores periodically closed because they didn’t have pot to sell. Prices were through the roof. Six months later, the equation has flipped, bringing serious growing pains to the new industry.
About 500 law enforcement officers, regulators and government officials from across the country gathered Wednesday for the first day of a three-day conference on the lessons and consequences of marijuana legalization in Colorado.
Two juveniles were arrested earlier this month after they triggered an alarm while breaking into a marijuana dispensary, police said.
An Iowa man who was convicted late last year of growing marijuana that he used to treat his rare form of cancer has died.
An online survey is gathering info about where the pot industry currently banks and what the world’s first marijuana credit union can do to lure its business. Fourth Corner Credit Union has also leased a former bank building in downtown Denver, but cannot open until the Federal Reserve Bank approves a master account.
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D) sent the voter-approved marijuana legalization measure to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Jan. 13, starting the clock on a 30-day review that Congress has invoked only three times in 40 years to quash a local D.C. law.
With a crowd of nearly 200 people overflowing into the hallway in protest of a large marijuana cultivation and manufacturing operation, the Silt Town Board on Monday unanimously voted against allowing the facility.
The Wheat Ridge City Council is nearing the end of settling a months-long debate over how cannabis, both medical and recreational, should be regulated in this western suburb. Wheat Ridge, along with Edgewater and Mountain View, are the only cities in Denver’s western suburbs to allow the sale of recreational pot.
A real estate holding company that leases to the marijuana industry and sued an investor for allegedly being the reason why it was delisted from over-the-counter trading has settled the lawsuit.
A federal judge in California is weighing the constitutionality of a 45-year-old act that classifies marijuana as a dangerous drug along with LSD, cocaine and heroin.
The NCAA conducts random drug testing for championship events and bowl games. Those tests can be done before or after an event and the school is given no notice about how many players will be tested.
Following Sunday’s “60 Minutes” broadcast regarding Colorado and legalized marijuana, the network’s web-only extra segment “Overtime” looks at pot tourism in the state.
Made-in-the-USA marijuana is quickly displacing the cheap, seedy, hard-packed version harvested by the bushel in Mexico’s Sierra Madre mountains. Drug cartels are responding by increasing output of heroin and meth.
Nick Brown, The Denver Post’s 2000 Gold Helmet Award winner from Woodland Park High School, has established a lucrative dispensary business in the Colorado Rockies.
Despite his earlier opposition on the issue, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper tells “60 Minutes” legal recreational pot “can work.”
Denver-based United Cannabis Corp. is proposing to team with American Indian tribes in California to grow and manufacture medical marijuana products. United Cannabis has signed a consulting and licensing deal with a company that will build up to three cultivation and processing facilities on tribal lands.
Adams County has received 60 applications to open a marijuana business in its unincorporated areas since it began accepting candidates Jan. 2. The county is holding an open lottery system until Jan. 22 to select 10 applicants to proceed to the state licensing process.
