Hector Diaz, a Colombian national who was among four men indicted on federal money laundering charges in connection with raids on the Colorado medical-marijuana industry pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday morning.
Federal prosecutors have indicted four men on allegations that they funneled and laundered hundreds of thousands of dollars from Colombia to buy a warehouse in Denver for marijuana cultivation. The charges, unsealed Monday, are the latest outcome of last year’s DEA raids in Colorado.
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A national anti-marijuana legalization group has met with White House officials to encourage the federal government to reverse legalization in Colorado and Washington.
On the whole, authorities reported no major problems at Sunday’s 4/20 rally at Civic Center Park in Denver. By late afternoon, Denver police had issued 47 citations for public marijuana consumption at the downtown rally, as well as 16 other arrests or citations for other reasons.
Marla Cooley isn’t exactly being discreet when she advertises the marijuana friendliness of her vacation rental home near Lyons. She calls the rental “High in the Hills.” “I’m in a spot where I can enjoy life at its highest, and I’m welcoming people to share the experience up here,” said Cooley, who hopes to expand with extra cabins for guests.
A Colorado medical-marijuana dispensary owner who is under criminal indictment sued state regulators Friday for closing down his shops. The Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division issued notices of denial this week to two Denver medical-marijuana dispensaries, Higher Health Medical and Jane Medical, according to exhibits included with the lawsuit.
Throughout Dr. Scott Bentz’s career in emergency medicine, marijuana wasn’t something he much worried about. About a person a month would come in feeling panicky after smoking pot. A sedative and a quiet room usually did the trick.
A Wyoming college student visiting Denver on spring break fell to his death after consuming a marijuana cookie, the Denver medical examiner’s office says.
A crackdown on Colorado medical-marijuana patients could trim the number of marijuana plants being legally grown in the state by tens of thousands, according to new figures from the state Health Department.
A Colorado marijuana innovation is changing the way lawmakers in even the most conservative parts of the country talk about cannabis and is poised to create a rapid expansion in the number of states that have legalized marijuana in some way.
Colorado health officials on Friday announced a new crackdown on medical-marijuana patients whose doctors have given them permission to grow more than the standard number of marijuana plants.
Anywhere from a few dozen to more than 10,000 people could be eligible to have their old marijuana convictions overturned as the result of a landmark Colorado Court of Appeals ruling that applied marijuana legalization retroactively.
The Colorado Supreme Court approved a rule change Monday that eliminates the threat of ethics sanctions for lawyers who work with marijuana businesses — even though those businesses are breaking federal law — so long as the lawyers don’t help businesses also break state law.
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.
A Colombian man charged with a weapons violation in connection with major federal raids on Colorado medical-marijuana businesses says his indictment should be thrown out because the charge is unconstitutional.
Colorado legislative economists on Tuesday predicted that recreational marijuana taxes will bring in only half of what Gov. John Hickenlooper expects they will.
A woman convicted in 2011 of a marijuana offense that is now legal in Colorado is entitled to have her conviction retroactively thrown out, the state’s second-highest court ruled Thursday.
Colorado collected slightly more than $2 million in taxes on the sale of recreational marijuana in the month of January, according to new figures released by the state Monday.
“Rolling Papers,” a feature documentary on cannabis culture in Colorado as told through marijuana coverage in The Denver Post and website The Cannabist, is currently in production and slated for completion in the fall of 2014.
Federal prosecutors are seeking to seize more than $850,000 in a civil forfeiture case against a medical-marijuana business connected to a major state-court indictment last year.
Colorado’s top federal prosecutor is scheduled to testify at a Congressional hearing Tuesday on his office’s approach to marijuana legalization in the state.
Handed a budget proposal that predicts sky-high marijuana tax revenue, Colorado lawmakers say they will move cautiously in deciding how much to spend.
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.
A federal judge has initially rejected a plea from High Times and Westword magazines to block state rules that prevent recreational marijuana businesses from advertising in most publications. But Chief U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger said she would let the magazines amend their lawsuit to keep the case alive.
