Recreational marijuana sales highest per capita in Colorado’s southern border towns
The interstate traffic, notably visitors from New Mexico and Texas, are what drive sales to Las Animas County, said Trinidad City Manager Greg Sund.
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Missouri bill would limit medical marijuana to terminal illness
A Missouri bill sponsored by Republican Rep. Jim Neely would provide access to medical marijuana for people who have terminal conditions.
600 Colorado college students to get funds in year three of unique cannabis tax scholarship
Nearly $750,000 in funding will go to graduating Pueblo seniors attending a local college or university through a cannabis-tax funded scholarship.
Local Colorado officials lead new national coalition challenging Sessions’ Cole Memo moves
The A.G.’s marijuana policy shift is sowing confusion and chaos in states with cannabis laws, according to a coalition of elected officials from 11 states.
Colorado sticking with METRC for marijuana seed to sale tracking
The state has relied on Franwell’s METRC seed to sale tracking tech since 2011
Vermont poised to make history by enacting legal marijuana through legislature
The state may become the first in the county to authorize the recreational use of marijuana by an act of the Legislature rather than via a citizen referendum.
Editorial: “Shame on Sessions for trying to destroy what Colorado has built”
Unable to slow the tide of marijuana legalization that is sweeping the nation, Attorney General Jeff Sessions is instead making a reckless move to quell progress.
Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner prepared to hold up Trump DOJ nominations over Sessions’ marijuana policy shift
Colorado politicians on both sides of the aisle resoundingly lambasted U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision Thursday to end an Obama-era policy that allowed for marijuana legalization to spread in U.S. states despite pot being federally unlawful. They said the change put Colorado’s pot marketplace at serious risk — though…
“This is outrageous”: Politicians react to news that A.G. Sessions is rescinding the Cole Memo
Politicians from states where marijuana sales are legal took to Twitter Thursday morning to express their dismay at a report that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will rescind the Cole Memo.
Colorado using marijuana taxes to save programs funded by Big Tobacco settlement
For more than two decades Colorado has received hundreds of millions of dollars from its share of settlements with tobacco companies.
Complete Colorado election results for 2017 cannabis issues
Get the unofficial 2017 Colorado election results for cities voting on allowing marijuana sales and the 14 municipalities that decided tax measures.
FDA sends warning letters to CBD companies, including Colorado’s CW Hemp
Four firms that make CBD products, including CW Hemp, known for “Charlotte’s Web,” were warned by the FDA for illegally making unsubstantiated health claims.
Talk show host Hugh Hewitt lobbies Jeff Sessions to pursue federal marijuana crackdown
Radio personality Hugh Hewitt lobbied U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions for a federal crackdown on legal marijuana businesses during a Thursday morning interview.
Prohibitionist Post: 125 years covering Colorado’s love-hate affair with alcohol and cannabis
By the turn of the 20th century, the city’s unruly reputation thrust the nascent state of Colorado into a love-hate relationship with prohibition that is still being realized to this day.
Colorado police raid large illegal marijuana grows “with ties to Cuba”
More than 365 marijuana plants, with an estimated street value of $1 million, were seized in Pueblo County Monday as evidence in illegal grow investigations.
Race for CBD medication breakthrough: Is pharma firm’s boon the hemp industry’s doom?
As CBD drug Epidiolex moves through FDA’s approval pipeline, the GW Pharmaceuticals product developed for treating certain types of epilepsy is watched cautiously by the hemp industry and optimistically by the medical community.
Colorado authorities seize $3.9M worth of marijuana
The Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office has seized about $3.9 million worth of marijuana plants and harvested marijuana.
DARE gets a modern makeover, but Denver schools aren’t convinced it works
Two decades after Drug Abuse Resistance Education was declared dead, it and similar drug and alcohol prevention programs are back in Colorado classrooms.
Two arrested after detectives find 146 marijuana plants in southern Colorado home
Two people have been arrested after authorities found an illegal marijuana grow and suspected butane hash oil operation inside a Pueblo West home.
Nevada readies PSA telling pregnant women not to consume weed
Nevada is preparing a public information campaign to address the use of marijuana by pregnant women and highlight potential harm to a fetus.
What role do pot-sniffing K9s play in the legal marijuana era?
A recent court decision has drawn attention to that wide range of policies for training drug-sniffing dogs — and left some wondering if dogs that know how to nose out marijuana are overqualified for their jobs.
What happens to houses after illegal weed grows are shut down?
After illegal marijuana grows are shut down, mold and electrical issues can remain, like these houses in Pueblo, Colorado.
Hiker finds illegal marijuana grow worth $7 million in San Isabel National Forest
Officials found two illegal marijuana grows, with more than 7,400 plants, on San Isabel National Forest land. Investigators were tipped off by a hiker who stumbled upon the grows in the Huckleberry Hills area northwest of Rye.
Using marijuana sales for scholarships may seem odd to some, but “it’s time to get over it”
Op-ed: “It still seems odd to us that marijuana is helping fund college educations, but the reality is, it’s time to get over it.”
Colorado students given $420,000 in marijuana tax-funded scholarships
Marijuana taxes paid the lion’s share of the new Pueblo County Scholarship Fund that on Tuesday awarded 210 students $2,000 each for the 2017-18 academic year.
