As Colorado entrepreneurs look for creative ways to meet the needs of higher end consumers, marijuana-themed versions of wine tastings and food pairings are emerging in the growing pot tourism marketplace.
Thanks in part to marijuana legalization, more people are now moving to Colorado than any other state except North Dakota. They’re coming for medicine, business opportunities, or just plain old recreation. From ganjapreneurs to pot refugees, the gold rush has gone green.
Few people buying veggies in the grocery store give much thought to how long it takes food to get from farm to shelf. In the same way, it can take nearly seven weeks to grow a harvestable plant from seed.
Rubbing hemp oil or cannabis salve on a sore back may not be the first image to come to mind when someone hears the term, “medical marijuana.” However, topicals play a crucial role in pain management.
What comes around goes around. After coming of age in the pot culture of the 1960s, then raising kids in the “Just Say No” era, the Baby Boomer generation is returning to recreational cannabis use as they reach retirement age.
To truly understand the complexity surrounding the pot plant, its cultivation and consumption, it’s important to be familiar with these terms.
Colorado employees and employers are caught in a legal tug-of-war between Colorado state laws that say medical and recreational marijuana is legal, and the federal laws that still prohibit it. This raises many difficult questions, both for working professionals and for employers.
Since Colorado residents voted on Amendment 64, school administrators, such as those in Mesa County, have been waiting and wondering: Will the green light to legalize pot result in more marijuana use by students?
Corporations, franchises and mega-dispensaries have been cashing in on medical marijuana for years. Now, with recreational marijuana legal in Colorado, businesses are vying for an even larger slice of the pot pie.
What should pot retailers do to grow their businesses? The game plan is much the same as for other types of stores: Educate the customer, provide exceptional products and service and create a buzz through marketing, particularly social media and the occasional discount or giveaway.
Legalization of recreational marijuana and the resulting boom in both commercial and hobby growing of the plant is putting Colorado power providers in a unique position: trying to reduce greenhouse gas while encouraging the growing of greenhouse grass.
Hydroponic and indoor grow operation supply companies have been opening and expanding since medical marijuana laws in Colorado allowed individuals to grow plants for personal use.
Colorado may be the first state to legalize and regulate the selling of marijuana for recreational use, but other parts of the U.S. began whittling away at anti-marijuana laws as early as the 1970s.
A portion of Colorado marijuana excise taxes is earmarked to help the state’s aging public school facilities. Colorado’s green revolution of both kinds – energy and weed – will help repair and replace the buildings, with an average age of more than 40 years old.
While Colorado led the marijuana legalization charge nationwide, that doesn’t mean residents are free to do anything they want. Here are five odd things that are now more illegal than pot in Colorado.
With the legalization of marijuana, a previously underrated (and underserved) market segment is coming to light: women.
