While Amsterdam is a beautiful, modestly safe city, the summer becomes a mecca for “pot tourists.” These are not the Europeans who fly into Vail and wear mink stoles while they ski. These are the Europeans who consider vomiting then passing out on a park bench climactic.
Jefferson County residents will not see any questions regarding retail marijuana on the ballot in November, the county commissioners decided on Tuesday.
Breckenridge Town Council in September 2013 banned marijuana stores in downtown, with an exception for the Cannabis Club until its lease expires Sept. 1, 2014. The Club’s owners are asking the council on Tuesday night to suspend the rule, noting their five years on Main Street without any trouble.
Vaporizers and electronic cigarettes, which have experienced an explosive growth in popularity in the last few years, are beginning to face stiff resistance in Colorado as an increasing number of communities crack down on the battery-powered devices.
A majority of Colorado voters polled by Quinnipiac University said marijuana use should be confined to homes and members-only clubs.
Cheeba Chews began as an experiment in a home kitchen and grew into one of the biggest successes of Colorado’s medical marijuana industry. Then, last spring, the medicated chocolate taffy began disappearing from shelves.
A 45-year-old man faces felony charges for growing thousands of pounds of marijuana without a license in three Denver warehouses.
Move over, pot brownies. The proliferation of marijuana edibles for both medical and recreational purposes is giving rise to a cottage industry of baked goods, candies, infused oils, cookbooks and classes as more states change their marijuana laws.
If House Republicans have their way, District of Columbia residents won’t be allowed to walk the streets with a joint in their pocket, and they will be allowed to carry a semi-automatic rifle.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed by 39 votes a measure that bars treasury and securities regulators from spending funds to penalize financial institutions that work with legal marijuana businesses.
Lakewood City Council voted 7-4 on Monday night to put a question about recreational marijuana stores on the November ballot. Council also voted to ban marijuana cultivation, testing, manufacturing, hash-oil production and smoking clubs in Colorado’s fifth-largest city.
While delivery services have existed for years to supply medical marijuana patients, the rise of similar businesses geared toward serving recreational users in Washington and Colorado highlights how the industry is outpacing the states’ pot laws.
When I wrote a story last month about casinos having to track wagers from those with connections to the legal marijuana trade, there were an assortment of eyes rolling, as if it was an unlikely thing. Turns out not so far-fetched. A small Nevada restaurant seeking to license five slot machines has to find a different operator because of a connection to the marijuana industry.
Selling legal marijuana and shiny magnetic balls under the same roof is being tried as a solution to Zen Magnets’ long-running battle with federal regulators.
The Lakewood City Council passed an ordinance Monday night to place electronic smoking devices such as vaporizers and e-cigs under the tobacco code.
As far as marijuana grow operations go, the three warehouses in southwest Denver certainly looked legit. Far from a clear-cut marijuana bust, recent cases show how difficult police say it is to investigate suspected illegal marijuana growing in Colorado.
Authorities believe a wildfire in Northern California was sparked by the exhaust from a truck driven by a man delivering supplies to an illegal marijuana plot.
Aspen’s recreational marijuana shops have been booming since the tourist season kicked into high gear in June. According to Hunter Beaudreau, an employee at Green Dragon Aspen, recreational sales have at least doubled in the past month.
Recreational marijuana’s legalization sparked some corporate worries about softer sales of beer, wine and hard liquor, but so far, the booze business hasn’t been dented.
Colorado recreational pot sales: The state saw its first first month-to-month sales decline for marijuana in May, coming down from April and 4/20.
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Ed Perlmutter on Friday asked the Internal Revenue Service to stop assessing a 10 percent penalty on legal marijuana businesses that are forced to pay federal withholding taxes in cash for lack of banking services.
Cannabis City in Seattle, the only shop in Washington’s largest city to legally offer marijuana, ran out of stock on the third day of state-approved retail sales, its owner said. “We knew it was coming,” owner James Lathrop said. “We didn’t have any guaranteed additional deliveries.”
Three people have been charged in an illegal hash oil production that caused an explosion in April. Matthew Ackerman, 24, Danielle Cordova, 20, and Paul Mannaioni, 24, are each charged with processing or manufacturing marijuana concentrate, the Denver district attorney’s office announced Thursday.
A state-produced study is estimating Colorado’s annual marijuana consumption at 130 metric tons. The study also has concluded that high taxes and fewer stores are keeping Colorado medical-marijuana consumers from switching to the recreational cannabis market.
Advocates seeking more lenient marijuana laws have no intention of stopping with Colorado and Washington. Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia have allowed marijuana for medicinal purposes, and more could follow. Here’s a look at five of the states that may be welcoming more permissive marijuana laws in the near future:
Closely mirroring its past positions, the Obama administration’s 2014 drug policy will focus tightly on curbing heroin use and prescription painkillers abuse while continuing to oppose the legalization of marijuana for medical and recreational use.
Summer doesn’t arrive in Seattle until July 5. It’s like Mother Nature cracks herself up every year, raining on our Fourth of July barbecues and fogging up our fireworks. We dutifully groan, roll our eyes and chuckle that the sun will come out as soon as we go back to work. Sure enough, the sun was out in full force on Tuesday, with barely a wisp of cloud in the sky, as hundreds lined up around Cannabis City, Seattle’s first legal marijuana shop.
Officials in Colorado watched — from afar — with interest as recreational marijuana stores made their first sales in Washington state Tuesday.
Commerce City leaders voted unanimously Monday to extend the city’s moratorium on recreational marijuana businesses for another year. The city’s current moratorium, which began in March 2013, is set to expire on Sept. 25.
As Washington state readied to become only the second state to allow people to buy marijuana legally without a doctor’s note, lines were already forming in front of the lucky few stores that got last-minute approval to sell.
The Golden residents who filed for a petition to repeal Golden’s ban on retail marijuana sales did not collect enough signatures.
Washington state issued its first retail marijuana licenses on Monday with a middle-of-the-night email alerting bleary-eyed pot-shop proprietors that they’ll finally be able to open for business.
Washington state’s first recreational marijuana stores open for business this week, more than a year and a half after voters decided to legalize, tax and regulate pot. What took so long to get the stores open? Plus five other questions.
Banks and other financial institutions not only reject businesses in the legal marijuana trade for accounts, but are increasingly doing the same to those associated with the industry, including employees and suppliers.
A Nevada-based startup that plans on selling medical and recreational marijuana products named former New Mexico governor and U.S. Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson as its CEO and president.
Legal marijuana businesses without bank accounts are unfairly assessed a 10 percent penalty on federal employee withholding taxes they are required to pay electronically but are forced to pay in cash, according to a lawsuit challenging the practice.
Littleton became the latest suburban community to prohibit the sale of recreational marijuana. The City Council’s vote against recreational pot sales was 4-3.
There was uncertainty about weed for sale in Colorado. Now that we’re six months in to legal marijuana, here’s what we’ve learned.
Denver cannabis authorities had a quiet day Tuesday, as all of the straggling medical-marijuana businesses still needing a license either got one or closed by the July 1 deadline.
In response to concerns over marijuana edibles sold in recreational stores, Colorado officials are drafting stricter potency and dosing-size rules. As extra encouragement, companies making products with 10 milligrams THC or less would face less stringent product testing.
Only six months old, Colorado’s recreational marijuana industry starts a transformation Tuesday that could add hundreds of new pot businesses to the state and reconfigure the market’s architecture.
The Denver City Council was poised to weigh in Monday night on Mayor Michael Hancock’s plan to buttress marijuana enforcement staffing using new tax proceeds.
The nation’s second legal recreational marijuana market is opening in Washington state next week, but it might not be what voters expected when they legalized the sale of heavily taxed pot a year and a half ago.
As Washington plows toward the legal pot promised land, it’s finding that getting the cannabis market off the ground has been even tougher than anyone imagined.
Lakewood City Council will vote soon on whether to add electronic smoking devices to the ordinance that restricts smoking in public places.
Advocates both for and against changes to marijuana policies continue to debate whether the laws will have any practical impact. But the new laws represent an ongoing rebellion of states from the federal government’s current position that marijuana has no accepted medical use.
Sponsors of an initiative that would legalize recreational marijuana are preparing to take boxes stuffed with more than 145,000 signed petitions to the state Capitol on Thursday.
Police have so far sanctioned no recreational marijuana stores for selling to minors during underage compliance stings across the state, according to the Colorado Department of Revenue.
A Wheat Ridge moratorium on applications for businesses that manufacture marijuana-infused products has been lifted and new rules set in place on where they can operate.
In support of their new release, “No Peace,” Odd Future-affiliated punk act Trash Talk is nearing the end of a 17-date free tour, which is, somewhat subtly, sponsored by G Pen, a personal vaporizer.
