Colorado Public Television (CPT12, Channel 12 PBS) will honor Academy Award-winning Colorado filmmaker Daniel Junge with the 2nd Annual Independent Media Award, to be presented at a luncheon on Oct. 27.
The prospect of decriminalized marijuana in Jamaica has caught the attention of a Denver cannabis consulting firm. United Cannabis officials said the enterprise will seek to “help restore the purity of (Jamaican marijuana) strains and standardize the breeding process.”
Lakewood vote on recreational marijuana sales: So far, pro-marijuana organizers have sat on the sidelines while opposition groups have been hard at work raising money, knocking on doors, placing yard signs and getting the word out on what they say will be a litany of problems.
A debate over legalizing marijuana in the nation’s capital is focusing on the outsized number of arrests of African Americans on minor drug charges.
Aurora recreational marijuana sales got off to a high-tech start on Monday at Euflora, the first pot retailer to open in Colorado’s third-largest city. Click here.
Aurora’s first recreational marijuana shop is set to open Monday morning. Euflora, on the 6000 block of South Gun Club Road, is planning a soft opening for 10 a.m.
Several marijuana measures, mostly tax questions, are on ballots across the state this election season, including whether Lakewood will allow recreational shops in the city of 145,000 residents.
Whether marijuana legalization should be repealed in Colorado came up during the latest gubernatorial debate Thursday in Fort Collins, with Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper saying it would be premature to put the question to voters.
Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson should be arrested anew after admitting during his court appearance on a child abuse charge that he had “smoked a little weed” while out on bond, Texas prosecutors said Thursday.
Recreational marijuana sellers are reaching out to novice cannabis users with a raft of edible products that impart a milder buzz and make it easy for inexperienced customers to find a dose they won’t regret taking.
A Denver man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for a fatal 2013 shooting that occurred during a botched marijuana robbery, the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office said.
After The New York Times ran a story on rebranding marijuana in Colorado on Oct. 3, some inside the local cannabis community took issue with statements made by Olivia Mannix and Jennifer DeFalco, who own Denver-rooted ad agency Cannabrand. Their response:
Rick Steves, a nationally known guidebook author and host on public radio and television, said Tuesday he’s convinced that marijuana prohibition in the U.S. operates solely to harm the poor and people of color, and to profit off their punishment.
Lawmakers in the nation’s capital voted Tuesday to make it easier than in any state for people who have marijuana convictions to have their criminal records sealed, the latest effort by the city to liberalize its pot laws.
Morocco is re-examining drug policies, with a draft law that would legalize marijuana growing for medical and industrial uses. Morocco’s situation is unusual, however, in that Islamic traditions create deep taboos against drugs, despite the centuries-old tradition of growing marijuana in the north.
An illegal marijuana-growing operation was discovered and subsequently destroyed in Eagle County earlier this month.
An influx of high-grade marijuana has made its way to northern Indiana from western states that have legalized recreational pot, contributing to a spike in local prices ($800 an ounce?) and raising concerns it could add to black-market drug activity.
Some members of Northglenn City Council are heated over a marijuana tax measure that the Adams County commissioners put on the November ballot. They say it competes with a city marijuana tax also being posed to voters this fall.
Colorado voters were “reckless” for legalizing retail marijuana, Gov. John Hickenlooper said Monday, during a pair of debates marked by candidates who dealt with uneasy positions and pivots.
A prosecutor told a jury Monday that a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lied repeatedly to the FBI during the investigation into the deadly attack, while the friend’s lawyer said he was a frightened 19-year-old whose memory was clouded by heavy marijuana use.
The constitutional amendment establishing medical marijuana in Colorado was pretty clear when it came to employers and pot. It should not, the amendment said, be construed as requiring “any employer to accommodate the medical use of marijuana in any work place.”
Two states, Colorado and Washington, have already legalized recreational pot. So what do we do about the rest of the war — the war on heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and the other nastier stuff? The answer is legalize them, too.
Nevada’s state and federal lawmakers have been working to bring medical marijuana researcher Dr. Sue Sisley to the university to conduct a pilot study on the safety and efficacy of marijuana on veterans with chronic and treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder.
Is legal marijuana detracting from the “family-friendly atmosphere” in Colorado ski town Breckenridge? Or are the folks trying to ban marijuana sales from Main Street here being hypocrites?
Green pastures and barbed wire surround eight grow tents. Irrigation tubes guide water through neat rows. Seasonal employees tie up branches heavy with the fall crop. In many ways, Life Gardens southeast of Ellensburg feels and functions like any farm. “It’s just another crop, other than we grow a Schedule I drug,” said owner Greta Carter, one of five licensed Kittitas County recreational marijuana producers.
The Miami jewel fence. The disgruntled former business partner. The shots fired into an upscale Adams County home. New documents in federal court reveal the staggering extent of the investigation into Denver dispensary VIP Cannabis and its related operations.
An illegal marijuana grow operation, worth as much as $8 million, was found in the White River National Forest north of Aspen last month, according to the U.S. Forest Service. A similar grow with about 3,000 plants was found in the Aspen area last year by hunters.
Dr. Drew Pinsky, that doctor you probably recognize from television, recently told The Cannabist that marijuana “acts like an opiate and causes severe addiction” and that withdrawal symptoms can include serious mood and sleep disturbances. C’mon, Pinsky. Really? My professional experience — where I worked as a residential addiction counselor and studied cannabis pharmacology in university — tells me differently. And when my Crohn’s Disease was in remission I quit using marijuana and never experienced a single withdrawal symptom.
Colorado medical marijuana growers would face new restrictions, including how many plants they can cultivate for patients, under a proposal advanced Wednesday by a legislative panel.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was asked about marijuana Wednesday after giving a speech at the University of Colorado. The conservative justice smiled, then hinted that he thinks federal drug law should trump Colorado’s vote to allow pot.
A 2013 survey in the New England Journal of Medicine found that nearly 8-in-10 doctors approved the use of medical marijuana. Now, a wide-ranging survey finds patients agree: 92 percent said MMJ alleviated symptoms of their serious medical conditions, including chronic pain, arthritis and cancer.
Federal agents seized hundreds of pounds of marijuana, 161 pieces of jewelry and $800,000 in cash — including nearly $450,000 stashed in the trunk of a car — from Colorado pot dealers with Colombian ties, according to records obtained by The Denver Post on Wednesday.
There won’t be any recreational marijuana retail stores opening Wednesday in Aurora, the first day they are allowed to do so.
Two major changes that go into effect Wednesday, Oct. 1, will impact the make-up of Colorado’s recreational marijuana industry. The first is the entrance of newcomers who can now be licensed for recreational sales. The second involves the industry structure.
Colorado’s new marijuana industry is in for a brand new element Wednesday — competition. The state gave medical marijuana dispensaries and growers a nine-month exclusive on the new recreational pot business, fearing an unmanageable explosion of new businesses.
A Colorado Supreme Court hearing that will have major implications for marijuana and the workplace ended Tuesday with the state’s most esteemed justices mostly scratching their heads.
Federal biologists say the marijuana industry in the Emerald Triangle of Northern California and southern Oregon is a key threat to salmon in danger of extinction.
The Jefferson County Board of Commissioners will make the ultimate decision on whether or not to allow marijuana businesses into unincorporated Jeffco, but the board is in no rush to make a decision.
About five months ago, Temples singer James Bagshaw asked his Denver audience to stop smoking weed. A calm, reasonable request, he told the Bluebird Theater during his band’s headlining set that the fumes made it hard for him to sing. It was the psych-rock band’s first show in Denver.
Coloradans could find out whether they have a right to use marijuana when the state Supreme Court takes up a major case Tuesday that will clarify cannabis’s place in the law. Though the case focuses specifically on medical-marijuana use, the high court’s conclusions could also be applied to recreational marijuana use.
The entrepreneurs of the young U.S. marijuana industry are taking another step into the mainstream, becoming political donors who use some of their profits to support cannabis-friendly candidates and ballot questions that could bring legal pot to more states.
The number of students disciplined for marijuana and other drug violations at the University of Colorado was cut in half between 2012 and 2013, according to newly released crime statistics.
The city of Aurora is going live with recreational marijuana sales for the first time Wednesday, Oct. 1. But of the 21 businesses that received licenses to peddle pot in the city, there may not be any that actually will open their doors on the monumental day.
One doesn’t necessarily associate weed with Lykke Li — it’s more like severe unhappiness, heartbreak, terrible breakups. But the day after her Ogden Theatre show, the Swedish indie-pop singer joked on Twitter about Denver and its liberal weed consumption.
It’s been almost 10 months since Silverpeak Apothecary first broke ground to build a series of greenhouses near Basalt.
A loophole built into Colorado’s marijuana tax system has allowed thousands of pounds of pot to go untaxed and has cost the state millions of dollars that should have gone to a school construction fund.
A video featuring Wyclef Jean and independent gubernatorial candidate Mike Dunafon debuted Wednesday evening at Shotgun Willie’s strip club in Glendale. The best part is the rap stylings of Dunafon against the politics around pot prohibition.
A U.S. bankruptcy judge has dismissed the case of a marijuana business owner, saying that though his activities are legal under Colorado law, he is violating the federal Controlled Substances Act.
National support for legalized marijuana has slipped by seven percentage points in the past year, from 51 percent in 2013 to 44 percent today, according to the Public Religion Research Institute.
The Jefferson County Task Force on Marijuana is recommending that the Board of Commissioners not allow any marijuana businesses in unincorporated Jeffco, but the commissioners want more time to study the issue.
