New Zealander John Lord never really wanted to sell pot. It just sort of worked out that way. Now, one of Denver’s early pioneers of commercial marijuana growing and sales is among the most influential in an industry that’s quickly topping $1 billion in annual revenues.
John Fritzel talks being a power player in a quartet of Colorado cannabis businesses
Vail’s largest commercial developer. An owner of a car-detail shop. A former nonprofit event planner. A businessman who made a fortune in child car seats.
Federal data show that the number of banks and credit unions across the country willing to handle pot money under Treasury Department guidelines issued two years ago has jumped from 51 in March 2014 to 301 last month.
Even if the federal government lifts its ban on marijuana, this wouldn’t end pot prohibition in the United States.
Recreational and medical marijuana sales showed strong growth in February, the latest month for which the Colorado Department of Revenue has released tax data for the state’s most newsworthy industry.
Just as chocolatiers fancy February, florists adore May and necktie retailers love June, the marijuana industry truly celebrates April. And here’s why America’s legal cannabis shops are ready to set new sales records this month.
Even though two recreational pot legalization bills in Connecticut failed this session, proponents seek to keep the issue alive through public hearings.
Massachusetts may not be prepared for public health and safety issues associated with the potential legalization of recreational marijuana, a special state Senate committee that recently visited Colorado warned in a 118-page report on their findings.
What’s happening with legal marijuana in Colorado is not quite the paradise imagined by pot enthusiasts in countries where it’s still criminalized or merely tolerated. Amendment 64 has fostered an industry, and the way it’s developing is not necessarily great for marijuana users and the community.
After having its Denver-area permit rejected last week, the U.S. Cannabis Cup is looking to move to southern Colorado in April 2016.
Americans spent $5.4 billion on legal medical and recreational marijuana last year, according to new estimates from ArcView Market Research and New Frontier Data, two marijuana industry market research groups.
Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will ask the D.C. Council to make her powers to ban pot clubs permanent. Bowser has warned that without such authority, Amsterdam-style pot clubs could spring up across the city and it would have no power to regulate them because of restrictions from Congress.
While Colorado’s legal marijuana industry is tightly regulated to keep pot out of the black market in other states, there are bad actors working outside the system.
Gov. Peter Shumlin and the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee have announced legislation “to cautiously and deliberately” legalize recreational marijuana in Vermont.
A federal judge this week removed the governor and other state and Pueblo County officials as defendants in a high-profile racketeering lawsuit that is attempting to stop legal marijuana in Colorado.
Did Colorado pot shops sell $1 billion of weed in 2015? December’s data hasn’t yet been reported by the state, but here’s our best estimate.
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.
Our guests on The Cannabist Show this week: ArcView Group president Troy Dayton and Pueblo County commissioner Sal Pace. [podcast] TOP MARIJUANA NEWS • A man who authorities say was growing marijuana in a central Florida storage unit panicked when he heard a police helicopter hovering nearby and called 911 to…
Our guests on The Cannabist Show: ArcView Group president Troy Dayton and Pueblo County commissioner Sal Pace. Recorded live at The Cannabist Awards.
Boulder County-licensed pot shops would be able to stay open three more hours each night under a regulation change to be considered by the county commissioners on Thursday.
Denver’s inaugural Marijuana Management Symposium provides a chance for the city to share its approach to cannabis regulation — and for city leaders to also learn from policy makers from around the country.
Marijuana and energy, two of Colorado’s chief moneymakers, didn’t get a lot of stage time in the Republican debate in Boulder, but the issues weren’t off the grid.
The GOP debate hosted by CNBC on Wednesday in Boulder had been expected to dig into candidates’ views on marijuana, yet the topic barely got covered.
Monthly marijuana sales in Colorado have soared past the $100 million mark for the first time, according to the August recreational and medical marijuana sales data from the state Department of Revenue.
