CDOT’s new “Drive High, Get a DUI” campaign debuts. Also on Thursday, the Colorado State Patrol graduated 20 new Drug Recognition Experts, who are trained to spot and test someone suspected of driving under the influence of drugs.
“I don’t believe in the stereotypes of pot. The couch-potato clichés. Marijuana, when paired with sports can emotionally transform the athletic experience in positive ways.”
CNN’s Sanjay Gupta toured Colorado’s medical marijuana outlets in a documentary last summer, “Weed,” talking about the medicinal uses of the drug. Now CNN and Gupta are back.
Washington state issued its first legal marijuana business license Wednesday, launching a new phase in the state’s ambitious effort to regulate a market that has been illegal for more than 75 years.
A senior U.S. drug enforcement official urged Congress and others not to abandon scientific concerns over marijuana in favor of public opinion to legalize it.
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said Tuesday that 4/20 marijuana rally organizers’ initial stance sanctioning pot-smoking at the event make him hesitant to issue them a permit.
The United Nations’ drug watchdog agency says that the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington poses a threat to the international fight against drug abuse.
An attorney for Denver’s 4/20 marijuana rally has “rescinded and withdrawn” a controversial letter that said organizers would sanction public smoking of pot at the event.
The Patient’s Choice location on Morrison Road isn’t busy on a Friday afternoon, which is a good thing, and the professional, friendly staff redeems an average recreational shopping experience and purchase.
For the third year in a row, the University of Colorado plans to close its Boulder campus on April 20 to curtail an “unwanted 4/20 gathering,” according to a statement released Friday morning by Chancellor Phil DiStefano.
Marijuana business owners looking for banks willing to handle their accounts are finding resistance in the most unlikely place: their own industry. Why is it such a trade secret?
Colorado State Patrol officers cited 60 people in January for driving offenses in which marijuana was believed to be involved. Colorado law officers are receiving more training so they will be able to spot drivers who are high and to differentiate them from alcohol-impaired drivers.
Ohio voters want their medical marijuana — and a by quite a large margin, according to a recent poll by Quinnipiac University.
Federal law makes it a crime to grow, sell or possess cannabis. New state laws in Colorado and Washington state permit those activities, and officials there are issuing licenses to local companies, which are still committing a crime under federal law.
“It’s Just a Plant” is geared toward starting a conversation with your child about marijuana. In the book, young Jackie, having woken up after bedtime, finds Mom and Dad smoking marijuana in their bedroom. Jackie’s mom promises to teach her about “mar-a-whahh” the next day. “This book is going to stay with us through my son’s childhood.”
All the buzz at the National Governors Association meeting over legalizing pot, some say, is just smoke. Nearly two months after Colorado began selling recreational marijuana, the nation’s governors are taking a cautious approach to loosening their drug laws.
INTERVIEW: European travel expert, public TV host, author and noted marijuana activist Rick Steves opens up about state drug policies, social justice and the head trips of legal weed in Colorado and Washington.
Bankers with commercial loans on properties that lease to a marijuana business say they’re unlikely to refinance the loans when they come due — contrary to normal business practices — leaving some property owners scrambling for financing.
More than 100 families have relocated to Colorado Springs since the “Charlotte’s Web” story first began spreading last summer, according to Paige Figi and her husband and the five brothers who grow the special marijuana strain used to make an anti-seizure drug and sell it at cost through a nonprofit.
Federal guidelines intended to ease concerns of banks dealing with legal marijuana businesses are indeed a crack in the wall. But they don’t go far enough. The reality is the only meaningful “guidance” for banks will come from federal legislation.
Rules written last year by the Colorado Department of Revenue’s Marijuana Enforcement Division for retail marijuana advertising are unconstitutional and have been ripe for a court challenge, which came last week when the publishers of High Times and Westword filed suit in federal court.
Charlie Brown is a Denver city councilman and the chair of the council’s Amendment 64 Committee, and he had some interesting — and often surprising — things to say in his recent appearance on The Round Up, a video series by The Denver Post’s editorial board.
The federal government has identified a dozen people in the ongoing investigation stemming from November raids on Colorado medical marijuana businesses. All but one is connected to a chain of five medical marijuana dispensaries and about a half-dozen marijuana grows controlled by Gerardo Uribe, his relatives or associates, records show.
From the Americas to Europe to North Africa and beyond, the marijuana-legalization movement is gaining unprecedented traction — a nod to successful efforts in Colorado, Washington state and the small South American nation of Uruguay, which in December became the first country to approve nationwide pot legalization.
Though the historic step brings marijuana businesses closer to legitimacy in states where pot is already legal, it falls short of the legislative action many banks want to see before doing business with marijuana operators.
