Sheriff Justin Smith of northern Colorado’s Larimer County, home to Fort Collins, is the lead plaintiff in a new lawsuit filed today in U.S. District Court challenging legal marijuana in Colorado — even though the county he represented voted decidedly in favor of the pot-legalizing Amendment 64 in 2012.
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.
Get details on a contest to get on a private party bus before seeing “Inherent Vice” with director Paul Thomas Anderson on Friday, Jan. 9, at the Alamo Drafthouse in Littleton. The movie, based on Thomas Pynchon’s novel, stars Joaquin Phoenix as drug-addled detective Doc Sportello.
Mountain towns dependent on tourists are reaping the rewards of legal marijuana. As the towns swell with visitors — skiers in February and March, summer vacationers in July and August — so do their sales-tax coffers.
Denver city officials are moving to ban the amateur use of a risky hash oil extraction process that has resulted this year in dozens of home explosions statewide.
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.
There was uncertainty about weed for sale in Colorado. Now that we’re six months in to legal marijuana, here’s what we’ve learned.
What has Colorado learned from six months of legal marijuana sales? That was the subject of conversation on NPR program On Point on June 30, when the program hosted a number of Colorado figures — including Cannabist editor Ricardo Baca and Denver Post editorial writer Alicia Caldwell — for an in-depth conversation on weed in the Centennial State.
Cucumber water, complimentary slippers, freshly warmed robes and cool, mint-scented eye towels — the spa industry is all about these nuanced details. In Denver, another treatment option has made its way onto the menu: cannabis.
The directions for Foria are unlike any other THC-infused product on the market: “Apply 4-8 sprays directly onto the clitoris, inner and outer labia and inside the vagina,” the instructions begin.
Here’s a list of Colorado shops open for recreational marijuana sales. This list will be updated as new licenses are issued.
Scenes from the historic first day of recreational marijuana sales in Colorado on Wednesday: Pandemonium – Tight organization reigned at some recreational marijuana stores.
While Jan. 1 will certainly spark Colorado’s suddenly retail marijuana scene, the cannabis carnival really won’t blaze until April 20. While a few stores across the state will be opening on the first of the year — the day recreational marijuana is available in stores — the perennially hazy, stoner-celebration day of 4/20 is expected to be a record-setter across Colorado.
Colorado’s ambitious experiment in cannabis policy reaches a historic milestone Wednesday, when licensed stores begin making the first legal sales of recreational marijuana anywhere in the world.
It’s a new dawn in Colorado! At the stroke of midnight Jan. 1, 2014, recreational marijuana becomes legal in the state.
On Jan. 1, Colorado becomes the first place anywhere in the world to allow legal marijuana sales to anybody over 21 for any purpose.
Colorado will make history when retail marijuana shops open their doors on Wednesday, but the pot landscape isn’t going to change much in Larimer County.
A definitive list of Colorado shops open for recreational marijuana sales on New Year’s Day is difficult to nail down — some shops are still waiting for licensing, or other items, and may not decide until the last minute.
Marijuana users in Colorado and Washington are counting down the hours before the western US states become the first to legalize recreational pot shops on January 1.
Colorado cannabis regulators will not be releasing an official statewide list of stores fully approved to open on Jan. 1 for recreational marijuana sales. But here are 24 of the stores that will most likely be open on Jan. 1.
