Cannabist Show: She makes edibles; He reviews marijuana
Colorado 4/20, edibles and the Denver Cannabis Cup are part of the conversation with pot critic Jake Browne and Dixie Elixirs & Edibles’ Lindsay Topping.
Colorado 4/20, edibles and the Denver Cannabis Cup are part of the conversation with pot critic Jake Browne and Dixie Elixirs & Edibles’ Lindsay Topping.
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City president Esther George on Thursday listened intently to a group of 20 businessmen, bankers and government officials who talked about the troubling lack of banking services available to the marijuana industry, but offered little indication about how it could be resolved.
Marijuana business owners in Colorado are meeting with a federal banking official about their problems accessing banking services.
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.
This week, at 7 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, Al Jazeera America examines “A Year on Pot,” including a day in the life of Denver Post editors and reporters on The Cannabist team. The documentary is one of a growing stash of films chronicling Colorado’s legalization of recreational marijuana one year ago.
Edibles now account for roughly 45 percent of the legal marijuana marketplace in Colorado and led to high-profile controversies in 2014.
We’re having a little fun with a few outrageous holiday gift options to basically just ball out of control in style this season. So here you go, you high roller, you.
Part IV in a series: This is full circle, in a way, for the family behind Medicine Man, a Colorado marijuana company that wants to be the Costco of weed. The Williams family’s bet on their business plan, tolerance for risk and willingness to be open about their financial books and personal lives have paid off.
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.
Like much about the marijuana experiment in Colorado, the caliber of TV reporting on the subject has matured over the past year. Sure, the latest documentary includes images of smoke-filled Civic Center and celebrants hooting at a 4/20 fest. But it also features a high-powered lunch at The Palm with gangapreneurs making deals. Since legalization brought international media to the state a year ago, the quality of coverage of the upstart industry has improved.
Marijuana activists are already planning the 2016 campaign to regulate and legalize the sale of recreational pot in Nevada, home to Las Vegas, one of the world’s biggest tourism destinations. But some tourists won’t have to wait that long to legally buy weed in Las Vegas thanks to the most liberal reciprocity law in the United States.
Colorado’s first attempt at better regulating marijuana edibles ended in discord Monday, when a working group adjourned without reaching a consensus. The group decided to submit more than a dozen different and often conflicting ideas for new rules to the legislature, which will take up the issue in January.
Because legalized recreational marijuana has created a boom not only in the weed industry but in the weed TV documentary (or pot-doc) industry, another six-parter is coming our way this month. MSNBC premieres “Pot Barons of Colorado” on Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. (A “sneak peak” airs Nov. 28 at 10 p.m.)
Colorado marijuana testing company CannLabs is expanding out of state again. The company’s future lab in Nevada’s ever-growing medical cannabis sector will be CannLabs’ biggest location yet.
Denver-area authorities said Monday they received no reports of children accidentally eating pot-laced candies this Halloween. Police had warned parents to be on the lookout for the edibles, which can look almost identical to brand-name treats.
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.
Colorado health officials want to ban many edible forms of marijuana, including brownies, cookies and most candies, limiting legal sales of pot-infused food to lozenges and some liquids.
Recreational marijuana sellers are reaching out to novice cannabis users with a raft of edible products that impart a milder buzz and make it easy for inexperienced customers to find a dose they won’t regret taking.
The entrepreneurs of the young U.S. marijuana industry are taking another step into the mainstream, becoming political donors who use some of their profits to support cannabis-friendly candidates and ballot questions that could bring legal pot to more states.
Here’s everything you need to know about the CannaSearch job fair in Denver on Sept. 16, which runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. “All of these companies require accountants and marketing professionals,” says CannaSearch co-founder Ashley Picillo. “There are lots of traditional jobs in cannabis, and we want people to know that those past experiences outside of cannabis are applicable to this.”
Legal marijuana: The tangle of rules and regulations that govern whether and how it can be grown, bought and sold create complexity and ambiguity that cause major headaches for marijuana businesses — and enticing opportunities for those who want to exploit it.
Cannabis consumers’ unexpectedly strong appetite for edible products has manufacturers scrambling to expand facilities and meet demand. Sales of marijuana-infused food and beverages since Jan. 1 have exceeded most industry projections.
In response to concerns over marijuana edibles sold in recreational stores, Colorado officials are drafting stricter potency and dosing-size rules. As extra encouragement, companies making products with 10 milligrams THC or less would face less stringent product testing.
This Q&A handles readers’ questions on cannabis matters. Topics include treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, bad breath and pot smoking, and a medical marijuana red-card renewal issue.
A Colorado Springs-based maker of pot-infused candy sued by The Hershey Company for using knock-off labels to peddle its products says the wrappers for its chocolate bars look nothing like the candymaking giant’s famous brands.