U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet has hopped into the fray over whether a newly formed pot-only credit union should receive a Federal Reserve System bank account critical to its operation.
The mainstream cannabis culture gap may be bridged by NBC next year when “Buds,” a comedy set in a Colorado pot dispensary, is likely to be picked up. This would be the first mainstream, prime-time broadcast network scripted series to tackle legal pot head on.
City leaders are working on an ordinance to ban all types of private hash oil production — whether the chemicals used in the process are flammable or not — while legitimate licensed manufacturers will still be permitted in the city.
Colorado Republican Sen. Cory Gardner announced Thursday he is co-sponsoring the Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015, which would legalize industrial hemp for commercial use.
Sheriffs and prosecutors from across Colorado and neighboring states filed a lawsuit Thursday in Denver federal district court challenging the constitutionality of Amendment 64, which legalized recreational marijuana use and sales.
At a news conference Monday, New York Police Department commissioner Bill Bratton blamed a slight uptick in violence in the city (45 homicides at this point last year, versus 54 this year) on marijuana. Hyperbole at its finest.
For the first time, the General Social Survey — a large, national survey conducted every two years and widely considered to represent the gold standard for public opinion research — shows a majority of Americans favoring the legalization of marijuana.
Three people were found guilty Tuesday of growing marijuana, but they also were exonerated of more serious charges in a widely-watched federal drug case in a state where medical and recreational marijuana is legal.
A non-profit group affiliated with the Drug Enforcement Administration apologized on Monday after sending out a tweet commemorating the arrest of a Harlem drug dealer in recognition of Black History Month.
The Aspen teen’s marijuana arrest spawned community debate pitting teen behavior and drug use against the police tactics used to take him into custody. Nearby students caught footage of the takedown arrest on their cellphones, posting the videos to social-media websites.
The tight-knit Manitou Springs community coupled with the streams of tourists that pass through for the Incline, Pikes Peak and small mountain-town relaxation make the city a prime spot for a new recreational marijuana shop, a spokeswoman for an emerging business says.
Utah is considering a bill that would allow patients with certain debilitating conditions to be treated with edible forms of marijuana. If the bill passes, the state’s wildlife may “cultivate a taste” for the plant, lose their fear of humans, and basically be high all the time. That’s according to testimony presented to a Utah Senate panel (time stamp 58:00) last week by an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration who specifically mentioned stoned rabbits.
On the heels of Jamaica decriminalizing marijuana, Denver-based United Cannabis Corp. is proposing to create a “Ganja Cooperative” to help Jamaican farmers grow pot.
Two people, including a child, were arrested in connection with a Colorado Springs hash oil fire Thursday that left one person injured.
The DC pot fight between Congress and city officials should bring home to the rest of the country the need to redress the historic injustice of the city’s limited political powers, writes The Washington Post Editorial Board.
Washington D.C.’s new marijuana law took effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday, despite last-minute maneuvers by Republican leaders in Congress and threats that city leaders could face prison time. Mayor Muriel Bowser said it was her duty to implement the initiative city voters approved overwhelmingly in November.
Denver has denied one of two permit requests for pro-marijuana 4/20 rallies in Civic Center on April 20, but the remaining applicant is declining officials’ request to submit detailed plans.
Compared with other recreational drugs — including alcohol — marijuana may be even safer than previously thought. And researchers may be systematically underestimating risks associated with alcohol use.
The first person to be arrested in connection with the largest-ever federal raids on Colorado’s medical marijuana industry pleaded guilty Monday to visa fraud and drug charges. As part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Hector Diaz pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess marijuana with intent to distribute it and one count of visa fraud committed in facilitation of drug trafficking.
The decision of whether a Colorado credit union created just for the marijuana industry can open its doors ultimately could come from the nation’s top financial policymakers.
If you’re making a long-term bet as an investor, there’s a lot going for Big Tobacco. As marijuana gradually becomes a legal drug, Big Tobacco is poised to dominate the market. Right now, the industry is undergoing a vaping revolution.
For the second time in two years, Colorado Rep. Jared Polis introduced legislation Friday that would effectively legalize and tax marijuana at the federal level.
A federal judge in Denver U.S. District Court on Thursday sentenced a Florida man to 3½ years in prison for selling an unproven formula of synthetic pot without knowing whether it would harm anyone.
Nine former Drug Enforcement Administration bosses have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Nebraska and Oklahoma’s efforts to end recreational marijuana sales in Colorado.
On Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. MST, Denver Post staff photojournalist Joe Amon and videojournalist Lindsay Pierce will share their recent work from one of The Post’s largest investigative reports of 2014, “Desperate Journey,” exploring the use of cannabis-derived CBD oil and how medical marijuana is being used to treat some conditions in children.
A video shot during a concert on Tuesday in Biloxi, Miss., appears to show Afroman punching a woman who jumped on stage as he played guitar. Because, well, it’s not clear why.
A Washington, D.C.-based group opposed to the legalization of marijuana has announced plans to sue the state of Colorado in federal court, in the hopes of closing the state’s pot stores. If the group files the pot lawsuit, it will be the second high-profile suit against the state and its legal marijuana industry.
Frequent use of high-potency weed may be linked to an increased risk of having a psychotic episode. But milder strains of marijuana, even when used heavily, don’t appear to carry any increased risk of psychosis, according to a new study published Feb. 16 in the journal Lancet Psychiatry.
After operating for months under the assumption that a March 24 special election in Lyons would include a measure seeking to ban recreational pot businesses, the town board voted Tuesday night to remove the ballot item altogether, citing insurmountable legal hurdles.
It can’t be often that a chamber of commerce calls for more regulations, but that happened Tuesday when the Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce threw its weight behind legislation to clamp down on caregivers growing medical marijuana.
A Denver medical marijuana dispensary penalized for not paying certain taxes electronically got a succinct reply from the Internal Revenue Service during its appeal: Tough luck.
The U.S. Supreme Court has given Colorado an extra month to respond to a lawsuit that claims the state is polluting its neighbors with marijuana.
Three weeks and two City Council meetings since Edgewater City Councilman Kristian Teegardin floated a proposal to cap the number of pot shops in the city at six, Edgewater has imposed a six-month moratorium on all marijuana applications.
Barring last-minute federal intervention, the District of Columbia’s attorney general said that pot will become legal as early as Feb. 26 without any regulations in place to govern the new marketplace.
A teacher at Pinnacle Charter School in Thornton has been arrested on suspicion of providing alcohol to students, police said Friday. Initial news of the investigation had said the teacher provided students marijuana.
Jack Splitt, 14, has been approved by doctors and the state of Colorado to use medical marijuana. But Jefferson County Public Schools is using the strange defense that marijuana is federally outlawed to justify snatching CBD treatments from the severely disabled Wheat Ridge middle school student.
A southern Colorado man was arrested this week after sheriff’s deputies say they found 600 marijuana plants and up to 100 pounds of dried pot — all estimated at about $175,000 — on his property.
Nine students have admitted being involved in marijuana-infused edibles being distributed and used at Coal Ridge High School in New Castle, Colorado.
For the second annual Snoop Dogg Wellness Retreat on 4/20 in Colorado, Snoop has recruited A$AP Rocky and 2 Chainz to ring in the marijuana holiday at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre.
A clash between state and federal marijuana law has a Jefferson County mom trying to figure out how to educate her disabled son, who depends on cannabis oil to treat spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy and dystonia.
The strides in regulating Colorado’s burgeoning marijuana industry look more like baby steps through the first quarter of the legislative session.
A growing number of communities — from Palmer Lake, Brush and Granby to Breckenridge, Wheat Ridge and Pueblo — are pushing back against the explosion of marijuana shops across Colorado, which at latest count number more than 330.
First, investigators linked a fire in an Arvada home Wednesday to explosion caused by attempted hash oil extraction. Then police discovered something more — more than 400 marijuana plants in two separate buildings on the property.
A Texas man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of trying to send himself an estimated $63,000 in marijuana and marijuana products, some of which was legally purchased, from Pueblo back home.
After Denver denied the 4/20 Rally festival’s request to expand to a third day this year, two other organizers have stepped into the void, applying for public assembly permits for simpler April 20 political rallies that likely would be exempt from a new event moratorium at the park. Those await city approval.
Doxey’s Apple Shed Cafe in Penrose, shuttered for nearly a decade, may reopen as a medical marijuana grow where THC-infused edibles are made.
The Colorado House’s Health, Insurance and Environment Committee was handed what was called “two major reports” on marijuana that totaled 359 pages Tuesday. But in the reports there seemed to be little that was surprising or new.
Colorado lawmakers struggling to make sense of incomplete scientific evidence about marijuana use by pregnant and nursing women have scrapped a bill to add warnings in pot shops about maternal marijuana use.
A man with dreams of building a cannabis shop and grow house on a quiet corner in Wheat Ridge is planning to sue the city for $700,000 after what he says was a broken promise that has cost him much of his investment.
One of four men facing federal charges in connection with large-scale raids on Colorado medical marijuana businesses looks likely to plead guilty, based on a recently filed court motion.
