A state Senate committee on Thursday unanimously approved a bill that would require medical marijuana caregivers to register and allows state agencies to share enough information to ensure pot grown for medicine isn’t sold illegally.
A bill to renew the state’s medical pot regulations won preliminary approval in the Senate on Wednesday. The bill entirely avoids a bigger marijuana fight looming next week for the Senate — what to do about marijuana caregivers.
It can’t be often that a chamber of commerce calls for more regulations, but that happened Tuesday when the Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce threw its weight behind legislation to clamp down on caregivers growing medical marijuana.
Welfare money or food stamps for marijuana? It’s an urban legend that won’t go away in Colorado, and state lawmakers this year are poised to pass a law clarifying that public benefit cards can’t be used at dispensary ATMs.
Adams City High School was put on modified lockdown Friday morning after a student’s gravity bong — a device that uses the force of gravity to pull large amounts of cannabis into a chamber — released smoke in a classroom, officials said.
Colorado voters were “reckless” for legalizing retail marijuana, Gov. John Hickenlooper said Monday, during a pair of debates marked by candidates who dealt with uneasy positions and pivots.
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.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A special legislative commission is looking into the potential effects of legalizing recreational marijuana in Rhode Island as the state’s northern neighbor readies to allow recreational marijuana sales. Bills to legalize and tax recreational marijuana in Rhode Island have stalled in previous legislative sessions. The General Assembly…
The Massachusetts Senate released a plan Friday that, unlike the House version, would not raise taxes on marijuana and would have voters decide on bans.
Delaware lawmakers are giving initial scrutiny to a bill legalizing the recreational use of marijuana, regulating and taxing it in the same manner as alcohol.
Recreational marijuana will face “greater enforcement” in the Trump era, the White House’s spokesman said Thursday, signaling an abrupt change in approach that was greeted in Colorado by a wait-and-see attitude.
Industry estimates show the marijuana businesses operating on the Kenai Peninsula could soon contribute $5.3 million annually to the local economy.
Guests: Outgoing Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce president Tyler Henson and Cannabis Benchmarks editorial director Adam Koh. Talking weed prices, vice industries and more.
If Proposition 205 passes in November, it would make Arizona marijuana legal for adults 21 and older, allowing them to use, possess and grow up to an ounce of the drug.
Smoking weed for the first time can be a transformative experience that will forever change your life. Or nothing can happen. Our pot critic has a few tips.
If ‘yes’ votes prevail across the country, about 75 million people accounting for more than 23 percent of the U.S. population would live in states where recreational pot is legal.
Common theory in the Alaska marijuana industry says businesses needs more time to get onto the map than its sister states in the Lower 48.
Edibles industry members discuss THC warning symbols developed for marijuana-infused foods on The Cannabist Show.
Featured guests: Patrick Devlin, a “zootologist” for Zoots Premium Cannabis Infusions making edibles in Washington state, and Eric Carlson, director of hemp affairs with the National Cannabis Chamber of Commerce. [podcast] LOTS TO TALK ABOUT • Bringing a Washington state edibles brand to Colorado. • Which states are getting hemp…
New marijuana industry caps approved by the Denver City Council on Monday, after weeks of haggling, will constrain expansion in the state’s largest market while providing new protections for saturated neighborhoods.
The city of Denver has released more than 28,000 packages of marijuana-infused edibles back into the market after recalling the products late last year when they tested positive for pesticides that are banned for use on cannabis. FULL REPORT
States that have legalized pot are taking a fresh look at making it easier for out-of-state investors to get in the weed business, saying the industry’s ongoing difficulty in banking means they need new options to finance expansion.
Thousands of marijuana-infused products, recently recalled in Denver over concerns they contain unapproved pesticides, will likely be destroyed in light of the governor’s order to label them a public safety hazard.
Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce president Tyler Henson writes in this new op-ed: A pot moratorium is not a sign of responsible growth, but a device used to pick winners and losers in our newest industry. By prohibiting new businesses from calling Denver home, not only are we sending the wrong message about cannabis but we are invoking the image that Denver is not open for business.
Denver’s marijuana regulators are asking the City Council to expand rules that would bar any new players from entering the state’s largest market.
