Enter ‘Mad Men’ — Marijuana industry turns to branding
As the cannabis industry starts going mainstream, marijuana marketing faces trademark and legal challenges.
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Unbalanced pot landscape in Denver raises concerns
Recreational marijuana businesses have proliferated so rapidly in some of Denver’s poorer neighborhoods during the past two years that city officials are exploring ways to disperse future growth more evenly.
A slow shift on working marijuana into alcohol-centered road safety
From a lack of stats to laws that haven’t been updated to disagreements over how to measure whether a person is stoned, it’s difficult to assess the impact of marijuana legalization.
Blueberry Dream (marijuana review, Leafs by Snoop)
The worst of the Leafs by Snoop flower line, Blueberry Dream fails to deliver the typical fruit notes while having the opposite effect of what’s advertised.
Top fed lawyer to SCOTUS: Reject Colorado marijuana suit
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.
Legalized life: 25 stories that define Colorado’s weed era since 2012
On Dec. 10, 2012, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed Amendment 64 into our constitution. And here we are three years later, a slightly changed society.
Advanced Medical Alternatives yanks pot concentrates in state’s 11th recall
Denver marijuana business Advanced Medical Alternatives is voluntarily recalling 133 individually packaged grams of cannabis concentrates because they contain potentially dangerous pesticides banned for use on pot plants in Colorado. It’s the city’s 11th pesticide-related recall of cannabis products in three months.
Pot recall: EdiPure pulls 7,770 edibles over pesticides
For the 10th time in three months, a Colorado marijuana company is voluntarily recalling pot products because they contain potentially dangerous pesticides. Denver-based marijuana company EdiPure is recalling 7,770 packages of pot-infused edibles because they were made with contaminated hash oil.
Cannabist Show: She owns an edibles company; She stumps for hemp
Our guests on The Cannabist Show this week: Love’s Oven owner Peggy Moore and National Hemp Association vice chair Samantha Walsh.
Denver now requires alerts on social media for pot recalls
Denver health officials are requiring marijuana companies that recall products tainted with unapproved pesticides to use websites and social media accounts to alert consumers.
Denver issues ninth pot product recall in 10 weeks
The city of Denver announced the ninth marijuana recall in 10 weeks on Wednesday — this one for more than 12,600 packages of Gaia’s Garden infused edibles.
Denver-based Lab710 recalls pot products over pesticides
More than 2,300 packages of marijuana concentrates are being voluntarily recalled from Colorado pot shops because they contain potentially dangerous pesticides banned for use on cannabis.
Pesticide edict ensures fate of recalled Denver pot products
Thousands of marijuana-infused products, recently recalled in Denver over concerns they contain unapproved pesticides, will likely be destroyed in light of the governor’s order to label them a public safety hazard.
Ep. 33 – Cannabis Patients Alliance founder Teri Robnett and Denver Post staff writer John Aguilar
Our guests on The Cannabist Show this week: Cannabis Patients Alliance founder Teri Robnett and Denver Post staff writer John Aguilar. [podcast] TOP MARIJUANA NEWS • Rapper Snoop Dogg started selling his very own line of marijuana flower and cannabis products in Colorado pot shops Nov. 10 — making the…
Cannabist Show: She helps MMJ patients; He covers suburban pot
Our guests on The Cannabist Show: Cannabis Patients Alliance founder Teri Robnett and Denver Post staff writer John Aguilar.
Gov’s executive order declares tainted pot threat to public safety
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Thursday issued an executive order telling state agencies that any marijuana grown with unapproved pesticides is a threat to public safety and should be removed from commerce and destroyed.
First look: Previewing the new line of Leafs by Snoop weed strains
The recently released Leafs by Snoop brand, touting eight signature strains of cannabis, is now available. Our pot critic checks out the collection.
Leafs by Snoop: The scoop on Snoop Dogg’s new weed line in Colorado
Snoop Dogg introduced his new line of cannabis and marijuana products at an extravagant private party at a suburban Denver home on Nov. 9. Get info on the Leafs by Snoop products now available in Colorado and an inside look at the party.
EdiPure, Gaia’s Garden edibles pulled in state’s largest pesticide recalls yet
Colorado’s most recent pesticide recalls of pot edibles, the state’s biggest to date, involve nearly 30,000 packages of EdiPure and Gaia’s Garden products.
What’s next for cannabis industry? Diverse, portable business models
As firms in the Colorado marijuana industry anticipate branching into other states, the future may also include major market corrections and consolidation.
Denver pot shops not required to post bonds for taxes under new rules
Denver marijuana retailers no longer have to post bonds guaranteeing they’ll pay their taxes, a regulation that some in the industry say had become a fatal hindrance.
Nature’s Cure of Denver recalls pot products containing pesticides
A second marijuana business in Denver in just over a week has voluntarily recalled its products because they contain a pesticide not allowed for use on cannabis.
EPA puts onus on pesticide makers to prove safety for use on pot
A federal law that permits pesticides to be used on crops threatened by an outbreak or infestation could be the solution for marijuana growers struggling with restrictions on the chemicals they can use.
Tighter regs proposed for pesticides used on Colorado pot
Colorado regulators have proposed rules that would further restrict which pesticides can be used to grow marijuana to those that are least harmful and are already allowed on crops intended for human consumption and tobacco.
