Marijuana enthusiasts and law enforcement don’t agree on much. But there is one point both concede: Louisiana’s marijuana laws are exceptionally strict. That could soon change. The state’s powerful law enforcement associations, which have stymied efforts to change marijuana laws in the past, are shifting their stance — even if only a little.
Smoking marijuana for medicinal purposes will not be allowed in Puerto Rico, but cannabis derivatives could be consumed in other ways, government officials said Tuesday as they provided more details on the governor’s weekend executive order on cannabis use.
Rep. Gordon Klingenschmitt is fighting the sunset review legislation that reauthorizes the state’s medical marijuana rules, because he doesn’t think felons deserve a second chance if it comes to growing or selling pot.
The Englewood City Council on Monday night stamped final approval on a measure that caps the number of marijuana businesses in the city at those already licensed to operate there.
The U.S. Supreme Court is asking advice from a top government lawyer on what to do about state weed policy and a smoldering fight between Colorado and two nearby states.
Watch The Cannabist Show, featuring guests Christian Hageseth of Green Man Cannabis (and the new book “Big Weed”) and Nancy Whiteman of Wana Edibles.
Fails the eye test. I can see it now: Instead of the ice bath, the Broncos can pass around the bong after a game.
Sixteen months after Colorado launched legal recreational marijuana sales, the center of the burgeoning industry in Denver is asking to extend shops’ evening closing hours and revisit the outright ban on public consumption.
Puerto Rico’s governor on Sunday signed an executive order to authorize the use of medical marijuana in the U.S. territory in an unexpected move following a lengthy public debate.
The GOP-controlled House Thursday barely rejected a bid by supporters of medical marijuana to permit veterans to receive information about the drug from their government doctors.
A stock delisting and a one-year stint on the grey market was not a death sentence for Advanced Cannabis Solutions. Shares of the Denver-based company that leases real estate to marijuana grow operations and dispensaries resumed trading this week under the symbol “CANN.”
A new Cheba Hut sandwich shop in Denver wasted no time staking out its territory by poking fun at neighbor Natural Grocers’ anti-GMO billboard.
Authorities in Eagle County say a 24-year-old man faces felony charges after sustaining second-degree burns on 25 percent of his body in an Eagle-Vail hash oil explosion Wednesday afternoon.
Authorities say NFL prospect Shane Ray has been issued a misdemeanor citation after a trooper found a small amount of marijuana in the defensive end’s car.
The $58 million question: What this marijuana lawyer thinks on Colorado’s pot tax refund. Will voters want to keep it, or will they allow the state to keep it?
Marijuana editor Ricardo Baca talks with pot shop marketing director Caitlin Murphy and cannabis lawyer Josh Kappel on Denver pot shops’ strict 7 p.m. closing time.
Colorado Springs mayoral candidate Mary Lou Makepeace said Monday she supports the sale of recreational marijuana in the southern Colorado city, which currently allows only medical cannabis sales, and she suggests that proceeds could be used to address the city’s persistent and widespread pothole problem.
MassRoots Inc., a Denver-based marijuana-centric social media network, has acquired an equity stake in a seed-to-sale company with plans to integrate the cannabis-tracking software in the coming weeks, officials announced Sunday. MassRoots is partnering with Denver startup Flowhub, which currently is in private beta.
Six months into Aurora’s venture of recreational marijuana sales, city officials say after a slow start everything is going about as well as could be expected. In January, the Colorado city collected about $103,000 in tax revenue and another $109,000 in February.
The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce has sued the Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce for alleged copyright infringement, claiming the pot-business promoter copied its logo.
The Englewood City Council preliminarily has approved a city code amendment that would ban any new medical marijuana dispensaries from opening in the city’s borders.
The mother of a 19-year-old who was seriously injured last week leaping from a third-story window after eating an edible marijuana brownie was arrested Thursday.
A discussion of safe wait times when consuming edibles and how packaging could help users educate themselves on how to enjoy edibles in the proper way.
Dan Skye, High Times magazine’s editor-in-chief, talks about stereotypes surrounding marijuana. Things are different in Colorado, Skye says, and that’s helping to change the cultural perspective.
While stoners all over the country were celebrating the national weed holiday, Waka Flocka Flame was in a high-level meeting with Rolling Stone to declare his candidacy for President of the United States.
Police in Brighton say they have arrested two men and two women in connection with an armed robbery of a man outside of a motel late Sunday who was apparently lured into a trap by a marijuana-smoking ruse.
A medical marijuana advocate has lost custody of her 11-year-old son at least temporarily and could face possible charges following comments the boy made during a drug education program at school.
Review: Snoop Dogg, 2 Chainz and A$AP Rocky played a big concert in Colorado on 4/20. Guess who said this: “I’m high as f—. I hope ya’ll high too.”
Denver police doled out marijuana-linked citations and arrests to 196 people over the April 20 — known as 4/20 — cannabis holiday weekend, officials said Tuesday.
There are two major problems marijuana-infused foods coming up short on potency testing: Not only does this practice amount to consumer fraud, but it lulls customers into a false understanding that could be potentially hazardous to their health, writes The Denver Post Editorial Board.
While the crowd at Monday’s unofficial 4/20 gathering at Lincoln Park was significantly smaller than the numbers at other events held during the annual celebration of all things cannabis, it still held a special place for local pot activist Rob Corry.
Denver Police cited 10 people in two separate raids on Denver pot clubs packed with visitors for the 4/20 marijuana celebrations.
Three Denver Post journalists were named finalists for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for their three-part series on how Colorado’s marijuana laws have drawn hundreds of parents seeking medical help for their children.
Police in Fort Collins are investigating if a 19-year-old consumed a marijuana edible before jumping out of a third-story window last week.
After three potential permit-seekers attempted in recent months to organize a pro-marijuana 4/20 event Monday in Denver’s Civic Center Park, any potential gathering will occur without a permit.
HBO has picked up the Vimeo pot-dealer webseries “High Maintenance” for six episodes.
Soja and Nas played to a chilly, dry and very high Red Rocks crowd on Saturday to celebrate 4/20 and the U.S. Cannabis Cup.
The University of Colorado will remain open to the public today, the first time in four years the Boulder campus will not be closed on 4/20.
A Colorado lawmaker says he’s planning a proposal that would allow young medical marijuana patients access to their medication at school.
Between Saturday and Sunday night, 4/20 rally founder Miguel Lopez estimated about 125,000 filled Denver’s Civic Center Park to browse marijuana-themed merchandise and discuss the pot industry.
High Times editor-in-chief Dan Skye says the Counterculture Hall of Fame induction of the Grateful Dead at the U.S. Cannabis Cup in Denver will get a lot of attention.
This year’s Denver 4/20 rally runs Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. with after parties in the nearby McNichols building from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. In addition to the hundreds of food and merchandise vendors filling the park, there will be a full lineup of concerts, including headliner Rick Ross.
Marijuana legalizers are winning the battle for hearts and minds. That’s one takeaway from a new Pew Research Center survey on public attitudes toward marijuana legalization. The survey found that 53 percent of Americans say the use of marijuana should be legal.
A Denver Parks and Recreation spokesman says permitting officials likely will allow the organizer of this weekend’s pro-marijuana 4/20 festival in Civic Center Park to also host a stripped-down rally there on Monday.
When I got my hands on the new Pax 2 to review, I was slightly jaded from my original experience and was trying to overlook the brilliant design cues to get a better understanding of what the long-term usability of this product would be. In short, I was really impressed.
Scotts Miracle-Gro Co., the world’s largest maker of lawn-care products, recently bought a leading supplier of hydroponics, and Scotts’ CEO plans to build a business that can generate revenue of $1 billion-plus a year as more U.S. states legalize recreational and medical use of marijuana.
Kansas resident Shona Banda utilizes cannabis oil to treat her Chron’s disease; after her son, 11, spoke out about medical marijuana at school, police later searched their home, arrested Banda and put the boy in protective custody.
America has seen the future, and it is high. Fifty-eight percent of U.S. adults say recreational marijuana will be legal nationwide in the next 20 years, according to a new Bloomberg Politics poll. That includes 13 percent who say it will take 20 years, 26 percent who say it will take 10 years, 17 percent who say it’s just five years away, and 2 percent who say it will happen in the next year.
Just days before a likely crowd of thousands inevitably converges on Civic Center Monday for the traditional 4/20 pot smokeout at 4:20 p.m., no one is sanctioned to wrangle the event.
