Featured guests: Comedian Adam Carolla and University of Denver professor Andrew Matranga. [podcast] LOTS TO TALK ABOUT • California’s upcoming legalization vote — why Adam Carolla thinks voters will just say no to recreational pot. • How a free-thinking professor dealt with getting lied to as a child about the dangers of…
Featured guests: Comedian Adam Carolla and University of Denver professor Andrew Matranga. Talking California marijuana legalization, cannabis journalism & more.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied Nebraska and Oklahoma’s proposed lawsuit against Colorado’s legal marijuana laws. The decision means the nation’s highest court will not rule on the interstate dispute, and Colorado’s legal cannabis market is safe — for now.
The U.S. Supreme Court did not make a decision Monday on whether to hear a lawsuit brought against Colorado over marijuana legalization.
When the state Senate in New Mexico this week considered a measure that would have asked voters whether to legalize marijuana, the debate inevitably became as much about Colorado as the lawmakers’ home state.
A third man indicted in connection with massive federal raids on Colorado medical-marijuana businesses pleaded guilty Tuesday, a move that leaves only one suspect still facing charges.
We’re talking about marijuana policy with Students for Sensible Drug Policy leader Betty Aldworth — including legislation in Congress and who’s making an impact; the outlook for changing the federal drug schedule; and adolescent marijuana use. There’s also discussion with the National Cannabis Industry Association’s Aaron Smith about one of the biggest issues affecting cannabis businesses and predictions for big stories for 2016.
As Colorado continues to gather data on marijuana, experts are withholding judgment and taking a longer view. However, there are trends to follow, including cannabis industry growth; marijuana-related arrests and crime; and consumer use rates.
Studying a non-psychoactive compound found in marijuana will be slightly easier for researchers after the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a small regulatory change on Wednesday.
The U.S. government has taken Colorado’s side in a dispute with neighboring states over marijuana legalization and is urging the Supreme Court to not hear a major challenge to the state’s recreational cannabis laws.
A man connected to major federal raids on a number of Colorado medical marijuana businesses has pleaded guilty, acknowledging in his plea agreement that the businesses violated both state and federal laws.
Federal prosecutors say a Colorado attorney charged in connection with major raids on state-licensed medical marijuana businesses is not protected by a new law that tells the feds to back off.
Another suspect in a case stemming from a series of high-profile federal raids on Colorado medical marijuana businesses has indicated he plans to plead guilty.
In a motion that could throw federal enforcement of marijuana laws in Colorado into commotion, a lawyer at the center of one of the biggest criminal pot cases in the state’s legal-marijuana era is asking a judge to toss out the case against him.
Three Denver Post journalists were named finalists for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in explanatory reporting for their three-part series on how Colorado’s marijuana laws have drawn hundreds of parents seeking medical help for their children.
Denver prosecutors on Friday dismissed all charges against a man whose arrest became a test case for whether the state’s laws against making concentrated pot are still valid.
Arguing that two neighboring states are dangerously attempting “to selectively manipulate Colorado’s marijuana laws,” state Attorney General Cynthia Coffman on Friday defended Colorado’s marijuana legalization to the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark lawsuit filed by Nebraska and Oklahoma.
Colorado officials have won indictments against 32 people accused of being part of a multimillion-dollar scheme to grow marijuana illegally in Colorado and ship it out of state.
Colorado cannabis documentary “Rolling Papers,” directed by Mitch Dickman, has its world premiere March 15 at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. It’s more than a snicker fest about cannabis, offering a telling glimpse into the state of journalism.
Sheriffs and prosecutors from across Colorado and neighboring states filed a lawsuit Thursday in Denver federal district court challenging the constitutionality of Amendment 64, which legalized recreational marijuana use and sales.
The first person to be arrested in connection with the largest-ever federal raids on Colorado’s medical marijuana industry pleaded guilty Monday to visa fraud and drug charges. As part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Hector Diaz pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess marijuana with intent to distribute it and one count of visa fraud committed in facilitation of drug trafficking.
Nine former Drug Enforcement Administration bosses have filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting Nebraska and Oklahoma’s efforts to end recreational marijuana sales in Colorado.
Two lawsuits were filed in U.S. District Court in Colorado on Thursday morning against politicians, public servants and businesses to “end the sale of recreational marijuana in this state,” according to attorney David H. Thompson, who represents the plaintiffs in both cases.
A Washington, D.C.-based group opposed to the legalization of marijuana has announced plans to sue the state of Colorado in federal court, in the hopes of closing the state’s pot stores. If the group files the pot lawsuit, it will be the second high-profile suit against the state and its legal marijuana industry.
The U.S. Supreme Court has given Colorado an extra month to respond to a lawsuit that claims the state is polluting its neighbors with marijuana.
