Larkspur group against recreational pot speaking out as vote looms
A group of Larkspur residents has united to stop recreational marijuana sales from becoming a reality in the small town in southern Douglas County.
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The Green Solution – Grape St. (rec review by The Ombudsman)
The Green Solution’s Grape Street location is visited by Cannabist shop critic The Ombudsman for a recreational purchase: “Even though the reception area was nice enough, it definitely did not prepare me for the uber-slick and professional presentation that oozed from every pore of this store.”
Colo. marijuana regulators reverse roles, join industry
At least three influential officials at the state agency that regulates marijuana business have found work doing cannabis industry consulting after leaving the division, the latest sign of the industry’s growing allure in Colorado.
New school construction will be green in more than one way
A portion of Colorado marijuana excise taxes is earmarked to help the state’s aging public school facilities. Colorado’s green revolution of both kinds – energy and weed – will help repair and replace the buildings, with an average age of more than 40 years old.
Caregiver pot-growing crackdown by legislators unlikely for now
A legal loophole in Colorado’s marijuana law that allows people to grow hundreds of pot plants without going through background checks or paying taxes is likely staying—for now, legislators were told Tuesday.
Hickenlooper: $1 billion in pot sales expected next fiscal year
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s budget office says it expects the recreational and medical marijuana industries combined to pump nearly $134 million in tax and fee revenue into state coffers in the fiscal year beginning in July.
Colorado congressman invites Obama on pot tour
It’s one thing if a press-savvy entrepreneur stages a press conference inviting the President of the United States on his Colorado marijuana tour bus. But it’s something else entirely when a member of congress invites the President “to visit a legal dispensary and grow operation to see how the law is being implemented in the state.”
No recreational pot in Boulder? (Of all places!) What gives?
Marijuana opened for business in Colorado on Jan. 1 — but not in Boulder County. More than a hundred state licenses for retail marijuana stores have been issued in Denver, but just one in all of Boulder County.
Legal marijuana sales bring long lines to Colorado
Long lines and blustery winter weather greeted Colorado marijuana shoppers testing the nation’s first legal recreational pot shops Wednesday. It was hard to tell from talking to the shoppers, however, that they had waited hours in snow and frigid wind.
Colorado marijuana guide: 64 of your questions, answered
On Jan. 1, Colorado becomes the first place anywhere in the world to allow legal marijuana sales to anybody over 21 for any purpose.
Legal pot sales in Colorado: “We are building an impressive showcase for the world”
A gleaming white Apple store of weed is how Andy Williams sees his new Denver marijuana dispensary. Two floors of pot-growing rooms will have windows showing the shopping public how the mind-altering plant is grown.
Colorado considers lowering medical-marijuana patient fee
Colorado health officials want to reduce the fee that licensed medical-marijuana patients pay, in a move that could impact how many people stick with medical-marijuana after recreational pot sales start in January.
Colorado medical marijuana business application backlog persists
Nearly 100 Colorado medical-marijuana businesses are operating without a finalized state license, the remnants of a bureaucratic backlog now stretching back more than three years.
Feds raid Denver-area marijuana dispensaries, grow operations, 2 homes
Six weeks before the nation’s first retail marijuana shops open in Colorado, federal authorities on Thursday raided more than a dozen Denver metro area marijuana facilities and two homes.
