Our guests on The Cannabist Show this week: Clover Leaf University president Chloe Villano and Chiefton Supply Company creative director Bryan Dehaven. [podcast] TOP MARIJUANA NEWS From an Aug. 13 report by The Cannabist’s Ricardo Baca: Colorado’s monthly recreational cannabis sales topped $50 million for the first time, according to…
Our guests on The Cannabist Show this week: Clover Leaf University president Chloe Villano and Chiefton Supply Company creative director Bryan Dehaven.
A day after lawmakers expressed concern about the federal government’s looming role in regulating state marijuana policy, a bipartisan organization of state lawmakers approved a policy statement with a simple message to Washington: leave us alone.
Commercial marijuana growers will be able to apply to operate in Hayden, a northern Colorado town about 25 miles west of Steamboat Springs.
Cannabist Show: Host Ricardo Baca and Colorado state Sen. Pat Steadman (D, SD-31) discuss how Colorado schools can expect to see some of the pot tax money.
Sen. Rand Paul raises money for his presidential campaign with help from Colorado’s legal marijuana industry. Recreational marijuana has become legal in Oregon. There are stricter laws in the state of Colorado for making hash oil at home. Washington state has overhauled its marijuana tax structure.
Indianapolis authorities say they’re prepared to arrest participants who attend the first service at a pot-smoking church that was formed as a test of the state’s new religious objections law.
Colorado marijuana crime stats: What’s the impact of legal pot? Breaking down 2013 and 2014 stats for pot arrests, crimes at dispensaries, DUIDs and more.
While the U.S. Treasury has offered a pot banking workaround and a number of small banks now accept cannabis cash, larger firms remain wary and the pot industry is looking to Congress for answers.
One of Colorado’s largest chains of marijuana stores on Wednesday laid off 65 employees — or 45 percent of the Strainwise-branded company’s total workforce, owner Shawn Phillips confirmed exclusively to The Cannabist. Phillips called the cuts “drastic” but “temporary” in a letter he wrote to employees this week.
For the third consecutive month in 2015, recreational marijuana sales in Colorado reached record highs in March, according to new Department of Revenue data.
There’s good news and bad news for Colorado’s medical marijuana caregivers in a bill that got initial approval from the state Senate on Tuesday. The bad news, at least for caregivers, is they would have to register with the state, so authorities can keep closer tabs on how much each caregiver can legally grow, as well as provide record-keeping that respects patient privacy.
A bill to renew the state’s medical pot regulations won preliminary approval in the Senate on Wednesday. The bill entirely avoids a bigger marijuana fight looming next week for the Senate — what to do about marijuana caregivers.
It can’t be often that a chamber of commerce calls for more regulations, but that happened Tuesday when the Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce threw its weight behind legislation to clamp down on caregivers growing medical marijuana.
A Denver medical marijuana dispensary penalized for not paying certain taxes electronically got a succinct reply from the Internal Revenue Service during its appeal: Tough luck.
The strides in regulating Colorado’s burgeoning marijuana industry look more like baby steps through the first quarter of the legislative session.
In one of those bizarrely beautiful moments where life imitates art, Cypress Hill’s lead rapper B-Real will soon be slinging (legal) weed in Orange County, Calif.
On the same November day that saw more than 1 million people in Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C., vote to legalize recreational marijuana, a popular social media app rooted in the cannabis space was removed from Apple’s massive commercial marketplace known as the App Store.
This Q&A handles readers’ cannabis queries. Topics include recreational marijuana cultivation licenses, out-of-state shoppers and edibles purchase limits.
Acclaimed author and Austin resident Neal Pollack traverses 800-plus miles to the nearest pot-peddling town in Colorado to find the meaning of life and legalization as America heads into 2015.
A Colorado symposium on how the state has dealt with legalized marijuana will draw Alaska law enforcement officers and public officials preparing for pot sales.
The year began with one of the nation’s biggest ATM sponsors refusing to allow its machines to be in businesses with ties to the marijuana trade, and it ends with the first credit union of its kind at the precipice of opening its doors.
The black market for marijuana in Colorado isn’t what it used to be. Nine or 10 years ago, the narrative of illicit cannabis in the state focused on illegally grown product filtering in from Mexico, California and elsewhere. Now it seems officials and experts are more concerned about Colorado-grown marijuana infiltrating other states, a trend that is seeing a significant upward trajectory, according to data obtained by The Denver Post.
Edibles now account for roughly 45 percent of the legal marijuana marketplace in Colorado and led to high-profile controversies in 2014.
These numbers, statistics and calculations will give you a very clear picture of what legal, regulated, first-of-its-kind marijuana looks like in the Rocky Mountains.
