The Colorado Supreme Court needs to send a clear message when it rules on whether employers can enforce a zero-tolerance policy on marijuana — even regarding off-the-job use under the medical marijuana amendment.
A man who was drunk and high when he crashed into two Colorado State Patrol cars in January has taken a plea deal to avoid jail time.
Most Americans learn to drink by a process of trial and error, conducted through well-established rituals and with social support. If marijuana is to be consumed in similar ways, a lot of new consumers will have to learn how to toke.
Denver police are warning marijuana dispensary couriers that there is a plot to rob them. “All marijuana businesses should be alert and aware of their surroundings as they conduct their business,” police said in a crime alert issued Thursday evening.
The City Council voted Thursday night to prohibit sales of recreational marijuana and medical marijuana in Golden.
The state attorney general’s office says Coloradans do not have a right to use marijuana off-the-job, siding with a satellite television company in its firing of a medical-marijuana patient.
Common stock trading for FusionPharm Inc., a Denver-based company that recycles shipping containers into greenhouses marketed to cannabis growers, resumed trading Monday amid a federal securities inquiry into its activity.
A plague of heroin addiction is upon us. Another plague. Heroin was the crisis that prompted Richard Nixon to launch the war on drugs in 1971.
New York state is partnering with a British company to hold clinical trials for marijuana-based medication for children who have seizures that are resistant to their medicine.
Celebrating music, art and recreationally legalized cannabis, the South Park Music Festival will make its debut in Fairplay, Colorado this summer.
City leaders in Littleton will give initial consideration Tuesday to putting in place a ban on recreational marijuana stores, as well as testing, manufacturing and grow facilities.
Two years after a majority of Lakewood residents voted “yes” on Amendment 64 legalizing possession and retail sales of marijuana in Colorado, they may be voting again in November on whether the city will allow marijuana stores.
Some drought-stricken rivers and streams in Northern California’s coastal forests are being polluted and sucked dry by water-guzzling medical marijuana farms, wildlife officials say — an issue that has spurred at least one county to try to outlaw personal grows.
The City of Denver has begun auctioning off the assets — sans pot — of several medical marijuana business that were raided by the federal government last year.
No one can dispute that Denver is the king of cannabis in Colorado. With 75 recreational marijuana stores for the city’s 650,000 residents, the hub of the metro area is well-defined as the epicenter. But for the 2 million living in the suburbs, there are less than a third as many stores.
Diagnosed with “mixed dementia” and frontal brain lobe damage, former University of Texas Longhorns defensive tackle Greg Ploetz had been deteriorating since 2005.
Marijuana advocates hailed the recent U.S. House vote on medical marijuana as a watershed in their fight against cannabis prohibition, but legal experts said the vote was more symbolic than practical.
Boulder police arrested a 27-year-old woman on suspicion of assaulting another woman who was taking pictures of people smoking marijuana behind Boulder High School on Thursday.
Voters in San Jose, Calif., who have medical marijuana cards can get more than just an “I Voted” sticker after casting their ballots on Tuesday.
Not that we are impatient, but we’re concerned that the promised federal guidance for banks that provide services for licensed marijuana businesses haven’t arrived.
Venture capitalists swarmed the inaugural Cannabis Capital Summit, eager to hear industry insiders offer and insight to the multimillion-dollar business that is cannabis and hemp. The event was sponsored by the typically conservative Rockies Venture Club.
A woman who calls herself the “Weed Fairy” distributed free nuggets of marijuana to people in Seattle, taping the free pot on fliers around a city neighborhood.
Wheat Ridge police are seeking a suspect accused of shooting at another man who was selling medical marijuana on Craigslist.
The governors of Colorado and Washington want federal authorities to keep their end of a bargain in which regulators said they would give guidance on banking the marijuana industry once law enforcement gave theirs.
The major indictments of four people connected to the Colorado marijuana industry rest on stacks of financial documents and the testimony of two law enforcement agents, federal prosecutors have revealed in a court filing.
Arapahoe County and Centennial are at odds over rules governing people who grow marijuana for personal use. The county has proposed a code amendment that would prohibit marijuana growing within 1,000 feet of residential areas.
Two armed men allegedly broke into a Jefferson County home early Saturday morning, forced a man and a woman into a car and then crashed the car in Denver during a police chase.
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra’s first “Classically Cannabis” event began Friday night like any other fine-arts fundraiser — with suit- and dress-wearing attendees politely mingling in a high-ceilinged art gallery, sipping drinks and shaking hands. And then the marijuana came out.
Signs posted around Denver International Airport warn passengers of stiff fines if they are caught with marijuana. So far, though, Denver police have not cited anyone for possession and have not confiscated any marijuana products since airport officials banned pot in January.
Boulder County has given initial approval to plans for a large-scale marijuana greenhouse operation off of Valmont Road, but the county commissioners could still choose to call up the plan for a public review.
Marijuana edibles company Dixie Elixirs and a Longmont-based maker of pot-infused mints have settled a legal dispute over trademarks and packaging.
The number of children coming into Colorado’s largest pediatric emergency department after accidentally eating marijuana is on pace to more than double last year’s total.
Broomfield City Council is poised to extend a ban on retail marijuana businesses for another two years by renewing an existing ban, originally set to expire in 2015.
When we spoke with Este Haim a few weeks ago, the topic of marijuana popped into the conversation, so we had to ask: Are the sisters going to smoke while in Denver? The band visits the Ogden Theatre on May 21.
About 50 citizens took part in a march down Main Street just before Monday’s regular city council meeting to voice support for retail marijuana in Cañon City.
James Byrd, a Wyoming state legislator whose bid to decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana failed this session isn’t giving up on the idea, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported.
Are Colorado drivers being pulled over and profiled by law enforcement in other states as result of the recent start of legal recreational marijuana sales? The short answer: It looks like it.
The U.S. Interior Department said Tuesday it doesn’t want federal irrigation water being used to grow marijuana in Colorado, Washington or anywhere else. But the practical effects of the policy are limited, and it’s not clear the policy will apply at all in Colorado.
Northglenn is no longer accepting applications for retail marijuana shops so officials have more time to reevaluate regulations for the industry.
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers on Monday announced a fourth lawsuit against a retailer accused of selling synthetic marijuana known as spice.
A hurry-up bill that whizzed through the final days of the Colorado legislature to create the world’s first financial cooperatives for the marijuana industry still faces about two years of added preparation, backers now say.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced Friday that it has temporarily suspended trading in the securities of Denver-based FusionPharm due to a lack of current and accurate information about the company.
Producers of edible marijuana in Colorado met again Thursday with state regulators and health officials to come up with stricter standards for marijuana-infused foods.
What began several years ago with a trickle of women tiptoeing into the brave, new weed world has turned into a stream in Colorado’s marijuana industry.
Two new University of Colorado studies paint an ominous picture of the direction of the state since marijuana commercialization but neither provides conclusive evidence that legal pot is causing harm.
I spent much of the past week in a comfortable patio chair beneath a big umbrella, rump sinking into the thick seat cushion, a fat unlit doobie of Train Wreck marijuana clenched between two fingers of my right hand.
Imagine a green light for virtually any club, bar or concert to allow open consumption of marijuana provided it sold tickets and confined pot use to an open-air area not visible from outside. Can anyone seriously claim that’s what Coloradans voted for in 2012?
Aurora has passed final regulations for recreational marijuana, clearing the way for an Oct. 1 opening of retail shops in the city.
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra will go on with its “Classically Cannabis” concert series changing the bring-your-own marijuana events to invitation-only fundraisers so they will not be construed as public events that could potentially break the law.
California law enforcement responded about 8 a.m. to reports that a suspicious boat and white Chevy Blazer had been abandoned near the water’s edge at Pescadero State Beach, authorities said. Inside the Chevy were 42 bales of marijuana weighing between 25 and 30 pounds each.
