The Observatory Park man accused of shooting and killing his wife told his 7-year-old son the boy needed to kill him so “dad and mom could be together with God,” a police detective testified Friday.
Emotions ran high at times at the second community meeting to hear public comments regarding lifting the moratorium on retail marijuana sales and cultivation within the city of Brush.
State lawmakers aren’t open to allowing gambling in De Beque, so officials in the struggling western Colorado town are focusing on marijuana. “De Beque has been boom and bust for a long time,” said new Mayor Forest Matis. “Any movement forward to try to bring some money into town is good.”
A 13-year-old Pueblo boy who police believe was trying to steal marijuana plants from a backyard was rushed to a Denver hospital Saturday after he was shot with a pellet gun.
Kayvan Khalatbari generally appears calm, happy and confident, whether he’s on stage for a marijuana policy speech, in the conference room of his Denver Relief pot business, handing out coupons after a comedy show, or seated in one of his Sexy Pizza shops — where the free-pie coupons transform into food.
Cannabis consumers’ unexpectedly strong appetite for edible products has manufacturers scrambling to expand facilities and meet demand. Sales of marijuana-infused food and beverages since Jan. 1 have exceeded most industry projections.
The president and CEO of a Pittsburgh-based pizza chain has an idea for a cannabis-infused sauce, but he’s not sure the product will fit his family-oriented business model.
Denver businesses that manufacture and sell edible marijuana are subject to the same rules and regulations as full-service restaurants and all other food-related facilities.
It’s far too early to talk about reducing taxes on retail marijuana. But it’s not too soon to address ongoing weaknesses in Colorado’s medical marijuana regulation, if necessary by preparing a measure that eventually could be taken to the ballot.
More than 100 banks nationally say they are working with legal marijuana businesses and their affiliates. In all, 105 banks said their customers include at least one pot-related business, but an undetermined number of banks reported closing nearly 500 accounts as well.
Colorado’s tax collections from recreational marijuana sales in the past fiscal year came in more than 60 percent below early predictions, and now a state lawmaker says it may be time to reconsider the tax formula.
Teenagers may be risk-takers, but they wouldn’t set out deliberately on a path to cripple their ability to think. At least that’s the idea behind the new “Don’t Be a Lab Rat” campaign launched by the state of Colorado and Denver and meant to discourage teen marijuana use.
Attention, hackfest organizers: “Startup Weekend” is a trademarked name. The guys behind next month’s Marijuana Tech Startup Weekend know that all too well.
Such flaunting of pot at a county fair that kids attend amounted to tasteless excess. Somehow you just knew this was going to end badly.
When the Colorado governor’s office asked ad man Mike Sukle to design a campaign to discourage youth marijuana use, Sukle knew it wouldn’t be easy.
Based on the comments expressed at a packed community meeting this week, the citizens of Brush are decidedly not interested in allowing the cultivation and sale of retail marijuana within city limits.
An attorney has announced a class-action lawsuit against a company accused of giving people samples of a marijuana-laced chocolate at the Denver County Fair’s “Pot Pavilion,” which was supposed to be drug-free.
Since Colorado voters legalized pot in 2012, prohibition supporters have warned that recreational marijuana will lead to a scourge of “drugged drivers” on the state’s roads.
Marijuana is really cheap relative to beer in most states — and really not in, well, only a few. We used marijuana street prices from crowdsourcing site priceofweed.com to estimate the price of a single marijuana joint (or roughly 0.4 grams of weed, because academia says so) in each state.
More than one-third of Colorado high school students surveyed said they’ve used marijuana, according to state health officials. Fewer high schools students today view marijuana use as risky compared to students in previous surveys.
A 19-year-old Texas man who could face years in prison for making brownies laced with marijuana and hash oil said Wednesday he remains scared despite new evidence that his attorney believes should reduce the charges.
Denver County Fair officials confirmed they are investigating at least three separate cases of people who said they were drugged after eating a Full Melt Chocolate bar that contained THC at the Denver County Fair’s Pot Pavilion.
Exactly five years ago, a beaming Jason Lauve rolled out of a Boulder courthouse in his wheelchair with an assortment of marijuana that had just been returned to him by sheriff’s deputies. In the years since Lauve left a vindicated man Aug. 6, 2009, the marijuana landscape in Colorado has shifted dramatically.
Drugs, money and guns are all involved in the daily operations of Big Al’s Security Team in Colorado.
In the ever-evolving regulation of retail marijuana, the state is moving smartly and deliberately to fix emerging gaps. Recent rulings around edible pot are an example of this wariness, but there is more to be done.
It was a tale of two moods Sunday at the Denver County Fair. At one end of the National Western Complex, the frenzied frivolity of the furry class was on full display at the American Kennel Club’s dog agility trials.
Aurora city officials have had a chance to observe how other cities implemented retail sales of recreational marijuana, taking notes along the way as they toured grow and sale operations and watched Denver implement pot shops in January.
When you consider there are approximately 70 times more marijuana users than heroin users in the United States, it makes sense that more of the former are going to the hospital than the latter.
The founders of a pair of self-described pot tech firms in Denver are organizing the inaugural Marijuana Tech Startup Weekend to help create, discover and refine products geared toward the world of weed.
Delays in implementing Uruguay’s marijuana program are putting it at risk as polls point to opposition gains in October’s election and say most Uruguayans oppose a legal pot marketplace. Opposition politicians have said they will seek to repeal or modify the legislation.
Marijuana can go in more than brownies and cookies. And the dizzying variety of foods that can be infused with the drug is complicating matters for Colorado regulators who want to make sure pot-infused edibles and drinks won’t be confused with regular foods.
The city of Aurora has received 40 to 50 applications from people interested in opening recreational marijuana businesses in the city.
Colorado’s recreational marijuana edible manufacturers face tougher rules on potency, serving size and packaging of their products under stopgap rules expected to be adopted by state regulators Thursday.
At a U.S. House hearing Thursday, lawmakers and witnesses debated the overall danger posed by stoned drivers, as well as potential methods that law enforcement officials could use to test for impairment.
A man charged in connection with the largest-ever federal raids on the Colorado medical-marijuana industry will get to stay out a little later after a judge on Thursday extended his curfew.
As marijuana revenues trickle into the state, slow to meet projections, a few Colorado school districts are among the first to see some impact from the state’s new funds.
Camouflaged amid the legal medical and recreational marijuana markets in Colorado, the ever-adaptable underground market thrives. Some in law enforcement and on the street say it may be as strong as it’s ever been, so great is the unmet local and visitor demand. Click here
Sometimes a bend in the road of history is such that its significance is hard to appreciate at the moment it happens. But that’s where the nation may be on legalization of marijuana.
Green circles, blue squares and black diamonds have directed skiers for half a century. So it’s easy to understand how a Colorado task force could suggest such widely understood symbols when it came to ranking the potency of marijuana edibles. But Colorado’s ski industry lobbied against the plan.
When Craig Baute opened Creative Density in 2011, there was only one other co-working space in Denver. Now, by his count, the city has eight, and at least four more plan to open by the end of the year, he said.
Concerned that federal policies toward marijuana usage in states that have legalized the drug often are “at odds with one another,” the four U.S. senators from Colorado and Washington state are asking the White House to intervene and establish “consistent and uniform” guidelines.
A Republican congressman from Pennsylvania says he has filed a bill to legalize nationwide the kinds of non-psychoactive medical marijuana treatments that have attracted dozens of families to Colorado.
A man who provided marijuana-laced cookies last year to two teenagers has been sentenced to three years of probation, the Denver District Attorney’s Office said Monday.
Recreational marijuana sales will begin in Manitou Springs on Thursday, July 31.
Mike Dunafon is a political enigma for the Colorado governor’s race: pro-gun, pro-pot, anti-big government and pro-abortion rights.
I’m on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, a seven-hour drive from Denver. “Our youth are abusing marijuana as never before. The stuff they’re smoking and eating comes to our kids still in its packaging from Denver,” says attorney general for the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Tate Means.
Marijuana and hemp have joined wacky paint colors and unsightly fences as common neighborhood disputes facing homeowners associations. Though a few HOAs have willingly changed their rules to accommodate legal marijuana use or home growing, many more are banning home pot smoking.
Homeless people lured to Colorado by legal marijuana are showing up at shelters and other facilities, which are seeing a marked increase this summer. An informal survey performed at one shelter suggested that about 25 percent of the increase in population was related to marijuana.
Opinion: “Cannabis tourism could be a gigantic boon for Colorado. And if you welcome them warmly, you will find them respectful, peaceful and all too willing to part with their hard-earned money.”
The Breckenridge Town Council on Tuesday delayed the eviction of a downtown marijuana dispensary, laying the groundwork for a potential public vote in November on whether to allow pot sales in the downtown core.
