The District of Columbia witnessed a massive, public drug deal on Thursday — and for those involved, it was quite a bargain. With D.C. police officers looking on, hundreds of city residents lined up and then walked away from a restaurant carrying plastic baggies filled with marijuana seeds.
Colorado may give up on one of its toughest marijuana problems to emerge in the new market — making sure that edible pot products can’t be confused with regular foods.
Intrepid cannabis aficionado and yoga enthusiast Neal Pollack flies to San Francisco to take three consecutive days of ganja yoga classes. Will the weed control him, or will he control the weed? His full report.
With multiple state marijuana initiatives winning voter approval in the 2014 midterm elections, legalization proponents are already hard at work in states like California, where passage of a comprehensive initiative in 2016 could provide the policy “legitimacy” reformers are seeking.
Alaska on Tuesday became the third U.S. state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana for adults, but it was a subdued milestone. Unlike in Colorado and Washington state, there were no street parties and public smoking displays in Alaska’s biggest cities.
A Denver hotel is offering a pot-themed Valentine’s Day package with munchies and a ride to a pot shop. But at the hotel, there’s no smoking allowed.
Colorado lawmakers struggling to make sense of incomplete scientific evidence about marijuana use by pregnant and nursing women have scrapped a bill to add warnings in pot shops about maternal marijuana use.
Colorado’s pot industry faces its first major regulatory shift of 2015 on Sunday when popular but controversial infused edibles must comply with new packaging, labeling and potency restrictions. Consumers stand to benefit, not just from rules that should make consumption safer but in cut-rate prices in the short term.
Imagine the country’s biggest 4/20 Rally in Denver … not happening on April 20 actual. It’s looking like the big Colorado rally will take place on April 18-19 in 2015 — and not on April 20, according to the city and county of Denver.
A Denver Post reader responded to a recent editorial with the suggestion: “We should actually be encouraging a shift from alcohol use to marijuana use.” Do you agree or disagree?
A year ago, as Colorado cities and towns were preparing for the first recreational marijuana stores to open, most were optimistic they were prepared. Still, many officials held their breath. Local government leaders from Denver to smaller cities and rural hamlets say the pivotal first-year rollout went smoothly, and in some cases it has proved quite profitable for local coffers.
Here are 15 of the most intriguing questions readers had for Ask The Cannabist columnist Susan Squibb in the first year of recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. Queries ran the gamut from what’s now legal (and what’s still illegal) to the products for sale in pot shops to quests for 1970s strains and cooking with weed.
Edibles now account for roughly 45 percent of the legal marijuana marketplace in Colorado and led to high-profile controversies in 2014.
There’s mounting anxiety that Colorado resort towns have embraced cannabis culture a little too much, potentially damaging the state’s tourism brand.
This week marks two years since Colorado allowed recreational marijuana consumption for adults over 21. Voters approved Amendment 64 in November 2012 and Gov. John Hickenlooper formalized it as part of the state constitution on Dec. 10, 2012. But it would be another year before recreational sales would begin.
The irony of coming from Colorado to be a judge of coffee shop cannabis at an unexpectedly transformed Amsterdam Cannabis Cup wasn’t lost on me, or most people I talked to over the five-day trip. Why travel 5,000 miles to smoke marijuana when it’s legal right down the street?
Scientist Sue Sisley is best known for her very public firing by the University of Arizona — but she hopes to soon be better known as the researcher who is testing the efficacy of marijuana as a treatment to post-traumatic stress disorder in American veterans. And while Sisley is a finalist for a historic Colorado grant meant for cannabis research, she hasn’t yet received the grant — regardless of incorrect reports in the media.
Get on the bus: One of our critics took a day-long bus trip around Denver to visit dispensaries, head shops and a marijuana grow, and offers an inside scoop on the experience.
The world’s first financial institution established specifically for the marijuana industry could be open in Colorado by Jan. 1. The Colorado Division of Financial Services has issued Fourth Corner Credit Union an unconditional charter to operate, the first such charter issued in nearly a decade.
A Health Department recommendation, obtained by The Associated Press in advance of a final meeting Monday on edible marijuana regulations, suggests a new state commission to give “pre-market approval” before food or drinks containing pot can be sold.
Colorado’s changing marijuana regulations: Whether changes will come from market forces or from the legislature is yet to be determined. But one thing is certain: The state’s caregiver model invites fraud.
Ah, the age-old vapes vs. pipes debate: Which is the key to a better high? We answer that question and more in this week’s Cannabist Q&A, including what college degrees are well-suited for the cannabis industry, and if there are 420 dance nights for Baby Boomers.
Opinion: There has been an inordinate level of fear, and perhaps confusion, flooding the news about the high risk of “Halloweed” candy being given to our children, and it threatens to take away a great holiday from not only those of us in the industry but families from around our community. It gives us one more reason to doubt our humanity, to close doors and to fuel our distrust of our neighbors and friends.
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.
Prominent Denver psychiatrist Christian Thurstone’s comments about the THC levels in Ferguson, Mo., shooting victim Michael Brown’s blood have some Colorado marijuana activists calling for the doctor’s removal from boards and commissions – or at least an apology.
