The documentary film “Rolling Papers” — which follows Denver Post and Cannabist journalists, critics and columnists as they cover Colorado’s first year of legal marijuana sales — will have its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. UPDATE: Showtimes have been announced.
One of four men facing federal charges in connection with large-scale raids on Colorado medical marijuana businesses looks likely to plead guilty, based on a recently filed court motion.
Approximately one in every eight citations issued by the Colorado State Patrol last year for impaired driving involved suspected marijuana use, according to new statistics from the agency.
About 500 law enforcement officers, regulators and government officials from across the country gathered Wednesday for the first day of a three-day conference on the lessons and consequences of marijuana legalization in Colorado.
A court hearing to determine the legal status of marijuana hash oil in post-legalization Colorado resulted in the judge turning up his hands and shrugging his shoulders in exasperation.
Two new reports show how the legalization of marijuana use and sales in states like Colorado, far from settling the nationwide debate over pot, has instead given pro- and anti-legalization sides more to fight about.
The state of Colorado has a new marijuana education campaign, and they’re calling it ‘Good to Know.’ Here’s what it looks like. And now you can take our poll: Do you like the folksy, neighborly tone of the ads?
Quite possibly the world’s first public service announcement on marijuana to feature hoedown music launched on radio stations across Colorado on Monday, part of a new campaign that state health officials hope will educate — not alienate — marijuana consumers about responsible use.
Colorado has made an unusual plea to federal authorities: Let our colleges grow pot. The state attorney general’s office has asked federal health and education officials for permission for Colorado’s colleges and universities to “obtain marijuana from non-federal government sources” for research purposes.
By virtue of a single comma, the Colorado attorney general’s office says making marijuana hash oil at home is still illegal under state law, despite other laws legalizing marijuana use, cultivation and possession.
As marijuana legalization took hold in Colorado, the estimated percentage of regular cannabis users in the state jumped to the second-highest level in the country, according to new federal data.
Only one year in, Colorado’s unprecedented jump into marijuana legalization has become the stuff of legend. For both opponents and supporters, the state comes up repeatedly in the evolving discussion about marijuana.
In suing to stop marijuana legalization in Colorado, two neighboring states have embarked down an arcane legal pathway that could take years to reach a conclusion, legal scholars say.
In the most serious legal challenge to date against Colorado’s legalization of marijuana, two neighboring states have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down the history-making law. Colorado AG John Suthers said in a statement that the lawsuit is “without merit” and he will defend Colorado’s law.
Teen use of marijuana has not increased in the past four years nationwide, even as the country has undergone a transformation in marijuana’s legality and availability, according to the results of a new survey released Tuesday.
The migration to Colorado by families of sick children seeking medical marijuana is fueled by hope, not science. Little is known about the treatment’s effects, and researchers suggest that some parents see progress because they’re desperate to see it.
Hundreds of families have moved to Colorado in hopes of healing their sick children — kids conventional medicine has failed. They’re turning to a liquid form of marijuana that has helped some, but not all. Learn more about cannabidiol (CBD) in this three-part Denver Post multimedia report.
A Colorado doctor who admitted to writing more than 7,000 medical-marijuana recommendations without actually seeing many of those patients is now facing criminal charges.
Colorado health officials have recommended funding two studies on childhood epilepsy, two studies on post-traumatic stress disorder and four other studies as part of the largest-ever state research program on medical marijuana.
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.
Colorado’s health department proposed an industry-spinning ban on the sales of nearly all forms of edible marijuana at recreational pot shops on Monday but then quickly backed away from the plan amid an industry outcry and questions over legality. More on the proposed Colorado marijuana edibles ban:
The Miami jewel fence. The disgruntled former business partner. The shots fired into an upscale Adams County home. New documents in federal court reveal the staggering extent of the investigation into Denver dispensary VIP Cannabis and its related operations.
Two major changes that go into effect Wednesday, Oct. 1, will impact the make-up of Colorado’s recreational marijuana industry. The first is the entrance of newcomers who can now be licensed for recreational sales. The second involves the industry structure.
Can a Colorado employer fire an employee for testing positive for marijuana? That controversial question is at the center of a new Colorado Supreme Court case, which held its first hearing on Tuesday morning. The top 20 tweets regarding the case:
A Colorado Supreme Court hearing that will have major implications for marijuana and the workplace ended Tuesday with the state’s most esteemed justices mostly scratching their heads.
