Recreational marijuana stores and grow operations could begin opening in unincorporated Adams County next year after the Board of County Commissioners decided to let a 16-month ban on recreational marijuana expire Dec.
Two people exposed to synthetic marijuana powder at the Denver police crime lab Monday morning were taken to a hospital.
Part IV in a series: This is full circle, in a way, for the family behind Medicine Man, a Colorado marijuana company that wants to be the Costco of weed. The Williams family’s bet on their business plan, tolerance for risk and willingness to be open about their financial books and personal lives have paid off.
Summit County leaders want to partner with local dispensaries to add a symbol similar to “Mr. Yuk” of the 1970s on the packaging of edible marijuana products.
The federal spending bill contains provisions preventing federal interference in medical marijuana states and research of industrial hemp. But for the Washington D.C. effort to legalize marijuana, it’s a different story, with Congress showing no shame or compunction in trying to upend local authority.
Organizers behind the world’s first credit union established for the marijuana industry had no word Wednesday on the status of their application for a master account with the Federal Reserve System.
Arizona state Rep. Ethan Orr wants to legalize marijuana. He wants it so badly he plans to continue the fight when he leaves public office in January.
This week marks two years since Colorado allowed recreational marijuana consumption for adults over 21. Voters approved Amendment 64 in November 2012 and Gov. John Hickenlooper formalized it as part of the state constitution on Dec. 10, 2012. But it would be another year before recreational sales would begin.
Breckenridge residents voted against recreational marijuana shops on Main Street by a margin of more than two to one in a nonbinding advisory election.
The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to extend the county’s moratorium on marijuana businesses until Jan. 1, 2016.
Nevada’s top election official has given the go-ahead to put a question about recreational marijuana use on the 2016 ballot.
A last-ditch effort by the Granby Board of Trustees to stop a marijuana business from opening in an unincorporated enclave within the town could lead to a legal showdown.
The migration to Colorado by families of sick children seeking medical marijuana is fueled by hope, not science. Little is known about the treatment’s effects, and researchers suggest that some parents see progress because they’re desperate to see it.
Hundreds of families have moved to Colorado in hopes of healing their sick children — kids conventional medicine has failed. They’re turning to a liquid form of marijuana that has helped some, but not all. Learn more about cannabidiol (CBD) in this three-part Denver Post multimedia report.
On Thursday morning at the recent Marijuana Business Conference in Las Vegas, I was chatting with some of the smart, tough, innovative and compassionate women I had the pleasure to work with in my four years in Colorado’s cannabis community. As per usual, the conversation came around to the various negative, inappropriate experiences we’d had with men at the opening reception the evening before. The lingering touches or too-tight hugs, the comments about our appearance and the leering were all so familiar that comparing the quantity and quality of lechery had become a game. “Great, they brought the hot chicks!”
Colorado has become a promised land for desperate parents trying to save their children. In the past year-and-a-half, hundreds of families from across the country have uprooted their lives and moved here for a specific kind of medical marijuana. Learn more about this special report.
The Brighton City Council on Tuesday voted to ban the use of electronic cigarettes and vaporizers in the same public areas where tobacco is prohibited.
Cost estimates have ballooned by about 25 percent for the Central Denver Recreation Center, and city officials want to tap into recreational marijuana tax proceeds to pay for about half the increase.
Two Breckenridge residents have been arrested in connection with a Nashville, Tenn., drug bust that netted more than 425 pounds of marijuana and nearly $355,000 in cash.
A Colorado doctor who admitted to writing more than 7,000 medical-marijuana recommendations without actually seeing many of those patients is now facing criminal charges.
Authorities in Gilpin County said Monday a butane tank explosion that destroyed a home, killed a dog and left a man with burns to his hands was the result of failed hash oil extraction.
Travelers leaving the Colorado Springs Airport have done a good job of stashing their marijuana at home or in their cars before they fly.
If federal regulators deny them critical insurance coverage, organizers of the world’s first credit union for the marijuana industry may have an ace in the hole.
In California’s Emerald Triangle, illegal marijuana accounts for a quarter of Humboldt County’s economy — at least. Legal pot is coming to California whether we agree with it or not. Plan now or fail.
Colorado’s new retail marijuana industry is joining the rush for holiday shopping dollars. The Grass Station in Denver offered traditional doorbuster deals on what some are calling “Green Friday.” The most popular was an ounce of marijuana for $50, about $200 less than the normal price for those strains.
The city of Aurora “manipulated the process” of selecting who would receive a license to sell recreational marijuana in the city, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by a business owner who was denied a license.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., have introduced legislation that would allow Department of Veterans Affairs’ doctors to recommend medical marijuana for some patients.
Denver City Council has approved the payment of $25,000 to settle a false arrest lawsuit brought by a woman who was collecting petition signatures.
Like much about the marijuana experiment in Colorado, the caliber of TV reporting on the subject has matured over the past year. Sure, the latest documentary includes images of smoke-filled Civic Center and celebrants hooting at a 4/20 fest. But it also features a high-powered lunch at The Palm with gangapreneurs making deals. Since legalization brought international media to the state a year ago, the quality of coverage of the upstart industry has improved.
An Aurora business owner has agreed to pay a $100,000 settlement to the Colorado Attorney General’s Office in a lawsuit centering around the sale of synthetic cannabinoid, also known as “spice.” The settlement with Rahmatollah Ghamari, owner of Paymon’s Market, was announced Tuesday.
Colorado health officials have recommended funding two studies on childhood epilepsy, two studies on post-traumatic stress disorder and four other studies as part of the largest-ever state research program on medical marijuana.
That’s not mistletoe. From new marijuana strains for the holidays to gift sets and pot-and-pumpkin pies, the burgeoning marijuana industry in Colorado is scrambling to get a piece of the holiday shopping dollar.
If not for a quirky bit of law passed by Colorado legislators 33 years ago, during the dawn of the savings and loan crisis, the world’s first credit union for the marijuana industry would not have been a possibility so soon.
The expected rush of recreational marijuana industry activity in the city of Boulder hasn’t materialized, and, as a result, much of the $473,000 budgeted for oversight hasn’t been spent.
Everyone’s favorite weed-smoking grannies are back — this time with a statement. It seems Dorothea (or as you probably know her: the timid grandma in the middle of the infamous smoke sesh) has come to the conclusion that smoking pot is just not for her.
The Colorado legislature must draft rules for marijuana edibles to make them easily identifiable when outside their packaging — a necessary step to protect people, especially children, from unintended exposure. If a recognizable industry stamp or sprayed-on color doesn’t differentiate the items from non-marijuana products, then they shouldn’t be sold.
The world’s first financial institution established specifically for the marijuana industry could be open in Colorado by Jan. 1. The Colorado Division of Financial Services has issued Fourth Corner Credit Union an unconditional charter to operate, the first such charter issued in nearly a decade.
I’m a mom of three, a PTA president, and I’m in favor of cannabis legalization. By the time my kids make it to middle school, I want recreational cannabis to be legal, regulated and easier to buy than the alternative, which might be sinister bags of heroin or highly addictive prescription drugs.
Eight retail marijuana businesses in Northglenn and a northern sliver of Aurora will see their sales taxes increase considerably next summer thanks to four measures that passed in the November elections.
The Boulder City Council is considering two versions of a broad outdoor smoking ban, one that includes e-cigarettes and one that does not. The City Council holds a first reading and vote on the smoking ordinance Tuesday.
The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners will soon vote on extending a moratorium on marijuana businesses in unincorporated Jeffco. The current moratorium expires on Feb. 1, 2015. The board will hold a second reading with public comment at its Dec. 9 meeting prior to a vote that day.
When “High Maintenance” was first released two years ago on the Internet as free, bite-sized vignettes about bourgeois Brooklyn as navigated by a marijuana dealer, it became a surprise hit. Now, its creators are testing the loyalty of fans by charging for new episodes on video-sharing site Vimeo.
Heavy marijuana users had different brain shapes and lower IQs than non-smokers in a newly published study, suggesting a potential danger to young people who abuse the drug. More on pot’s effects on the young brain:
Colorado’s first attempt at better regulating marijuana edibles ended in discord Monday, when a working group adjourned without reaching a consensus. The group decided to submit more than a dozen different and often conflicting ideas for new rules to the legislature, which will take up the issue in January.
With voters in Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C., passing measures to approve legalizing pot and polls reflecting a growing acceptance of the idea, Congress should begin to get the message, writes The Denver Post Editorial Board. Banking restrictions should be lifted and the feds should remove marijuana as a Schedule I drug.
Steamboat Springs entrepreneur Drew Koehler is hoping to tap into the state’s lucrative recreational marijuana industry with his new vaporizer rental business that he says offers visitors a healthier and more discreet way of getting high.
Why was this Pennsylvanian performing arts center president and CEO arrested on felony charges for the two seven-foot pot plants growing on his front stoop?
Business owners who won licenses in August to open one of 21 marijuana businesses in Aurora are doing more than opening the doors to one store — they are revamping rundown retail centers and rehabbing long-vacant strip malls.
Colorado’s changing marijuana regulations: Whether changes will come from market forces or from the legislature is yet to be determined. But one thing is certain: The state’s caregiver model invites fraud.
Colorado lawmakers set aside $2.5 million from marijuana tax revenue for schools to hire more health professionals, including nurses, counselors, social workers and psychologists. So far, $975,000 in grants have been awarded.
