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.
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.
A federal judge said Monday he will allow a suspect arrested in connection with major federal raids on medical-marijuana businesses to be released on a $25,000 bond.
A federal judge said Wednesday he is inclined to allow a man arrested during major raids on Colorado marijuana businesses to be released on bond because the government has not sufficiently shown him to be dangerous.
When federal agents swooped into a swanky Cherry Hills Village home last week as part of widespread raids tied to medical-marijuana businesses, they found a person inside holding a loaded gun, according to a court document unsealed Monday.
A measure to impose hefty taxes on recreational marijuana passed easily Tuesday, as voters across the state overwhelmingly chose to make pot one of the most heavily taxed consumer products in Colorado.
Colorado officials have long warned about the risks of using marijuana while pregnant — including placing warning labels on cannabis packaging.
Little-known federal law makes it possible to execute people who grow more than 60,000 marijuana plants.
A new report finds that the marijuana industry provides a net positive economic benefit to Pueblo County, even when accounting for law enforcement.
As the opioid crisis deepens, an increasing number of researchers and advocates are looking at legal marijuana as a possible solution.
To educate people about marijuana following legalization, Colorado health officials made a radical choice — to take the “anti” out of their anti-pot ads.
One of the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center doctors who wrote a case study linking marijuana to a fatal heart condition in an 11-month-old Colorado boy says he is surprised at the controversy surrounding the report.
An 11-month-old Colorado boy’s death from a heart condition was likely related to ingestion of marijuana, two Denver doctors have concluded, but the precise link remains unclear.
The number of teenagers going to the emergency room at Children’s Hospital Colorado for what appeared to be marijuana-related reasons increased significantly after legalization, a new study by a Children’s doctor found.
Amid speculation over how the Trump administration will approach cannabis legalization in Colorado and other states, the Drug Enforcement Administration has requested information about marijuana cases from the Colorado attorney general’s office.
The federal DEA has pulled the medicine-prescribing certificates of two doctors, whose licenses were suspended over their medical marijuana recommendations.
Large percentages of University of Colorado medical students believe cannabis can have both health benefits and harms.
Legal weed had no impact on Colorado teen marijuana use or on whether they think it is dangerous, according to a new study. Here’s why.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment announced $2.35 million in grants on Tuesday for studies that will help explain the impacts of marijuana legalization on the state.
Colorado’s new rules for marijuana-infused edibles — which prohibit products made in animal or fruit shapes — take an important step to curb edibles’ appeal to young children but they also may not go far enough by not regulating color, taste and smell, a recently released study suggests.
A crowd of hundreds on Thursday remembered Jack Splitt, a Jefferson County teenager who battled cerebral palsy and whose lobbying efforts at the state Capitol changed the law not once but twice.
‘As a parent, I know conversations like these aren’t always easy,’ says Gov. John Hickenlooper. Colorado’s Health Dept’s new educational ads will be aimed for parents, mentors and adults on how to discuss kids marijuana use.
Four Colorado doctors accused of over-recommending high plant counts for medical marijuana patients have had their suspensions re-instated, after a judge reversed course and tossed out their lawsuit.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will deny requests that it change the legal classification of marijuana and reject arguments that marijuana has medical value, according to multiple news reports.
The study — led by a doctor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus — found that edibles accounted for almost half of all accidental ingestion cases seen at Children’s Hospital.
Four Colorado doctors whose licenses were suspended based on allegations that they over-recommended plant counts for medical marijuana patients have filed suit.