For the first time in Colorado’s short legal marijuana history, recreational cannabis sales took a month-to-month dive in September, according to new data released by the state’s Department of Revenue. See our full report on the latest pot taxes in Colorado.
Boulder city code bans retail marijuana establishments from selling or giving away any products with their name or logo. Several Boulder City Council members believe it is time to reconsider that provision, which appears to be unique to Boulder among Colorado towns that allow recreational marijuana sales.
Idyllic mountain hamlet Manitou Springs, currently the home of El Paso County’s sole recreational pot shop, could possibly become the first city in Colorado to allow recreational marijuana sales — and then reverse the law, depending on today’s election results.
Cannabist Q&A: A reader seeks advice about processing their marijuana harvest, plus other queries on finding 420-friendly lodging in Colorado and the legality of setting up an online joint-rolling contest.
On a warm Seattle summer evening in 1978, my wife wanted to talk about my increasingly frequent pot smoking: “I feel you’ve abandoned me, that the person I married — even when you’re sitting next to me on the couch — is not there.”
Aurora’s first recreational marijuana shop is set to open Monday morning. Euflora, on the 6000 block of South Gun Club Road, is planning a soft opening for 10 a.m.
Recreational marijuana sellers are reaching out to novice cannabis users with a raft of edible products that impart a milder buzz and make it easy for inexperienced customers to find a dose they won’t regret taking.
Rick Steves, a nationally known guidebook author and host on public radio and television, said Tuesday he’s convinced that marijuana prohibition in the U.S. operates solely to harm the poor and people of color, and to profit off their punishment.
Two states, Colorado and Washington, have already legalized recreational pot. So what do we do about the rest of the war — the war on heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and the other nastier stuff? The answer is legalize them, too.
Is legal marijuana detracting from the “family-friendly atmosphere” in Colorado ski town Breckenridge? Or are the folks trying to ban marijuana sales from Main Street here being hypocrites?
Travel hero Rick Steves will tour 10 Oregon cities in early-October to talk about marijuana legalization — and, more importantly, Measure 91, which aims to regulate, legalize and tax marijuana for adult Oregonians 21 and older.
Fun and stylish pot leaf hemp socks from Denver Hemp Co. feature crisp, green cannabis leaves. But there’s just one drawback.
New revenue figures out of Colorado show that legal recreational marijuana sales have surpassed medical marijuana sales. The milestone is largely symbolic, but the overall trend shows a strong increase in recreational sales since the spring.
Excuse me if I sound dismissive of an anonymous woman in Washington state who feels she’s being smoked out of her own backyard. When it comes to our fundamental rights, I can’t imagine anything more American than plumes of legal cannabis rising from backyards like so many Fourth of July barbecues.
Ryan Griego owns a recreational pot shop in southern Colorado, and he’s putting out a bold, informed estimate saying that a decidedly clear majority of his customers are from outside of Colorado.
The Seattle Hempfest and Denver’s 4/20 Rally have a lot in common. Both, for instance, claim to be the largest event of its kind. They also contribute to large amounts of marijuana smoke drifting into the sky. But what’s the scene like for each? And where can you find the best weed?
Topics for this Q&A installment include signing up for a cannabis tour to get an inside look at one of Colorado’s commercial cultivation facilities, plus other questions from readers about penny stock investing and searching online for specific strains.
Mike Dunafon is a political enigma for the Colorado governor’s race: pro-gun, pro-pot, anti-big government and pro-abortion rights.
The paper’s message was straightforward and — surprising to many — thoroughly in line with what many marijuana activists have been saying for decades. While some readers may have been taken aback by the July 26 editorial, activists from D.C. to Denver say they saw this moment coming.
Who knew that pot tourism would ever become the hotly contested issue it is today in Colorado? Industry types say marijuana tours are popular, 420-friendly B&Bs are sold out and pot shops are filled with out-of-staters. But tourism officials aren’t seeing any of that mania in their data.
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.
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.
What some might consider really good room service drew the Seattle police bomb squad when a lumpy plastic-wrapped package was found outside a vacant room at a downtown hotel. Its contents: six pounds of marijuana.
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.
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.
