As six Colorado sheriffs sue the state over its legal pot, another sheriff in southwest Colorado — San Miguel County’s Bill Masters — questions their intentions. “It’s not about the constitution,” Masters said. “It’s about marijuana.”
The city of Denver proposed a new amendment to limit unlicensed, non-residential marijuana cultivations to 36 plants. Officials behind the plan say the measure would make for safer conditions, more clear law enforcement options and fewer opportunities for untracked pot to escape into the black or gray markets.
Colorado’s most controversial marijuana-related bill of the year is up for its first test in the Senate on Thursday. A measure to crack down on medical pot users faces a hearing.
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.
Barring last-minute federal intervention, the District of Columbia’s attorney general said that pot will become legal as early as Feb. 26 without any regulations in place to govern the new marketplace.
A southern Colorado man was arrested this week after sheriff’s deputies say they found 600 marijuana plants and up to 100 pounds of dried pot — all estimated at about $175,000 — on his property.
The strides in regulating Colorado’s burgeoning marijuana industry look more like baby steps through the first quarter of the legislative session.
Colorado’s rules regarding medical marijuana should be brought in line to match those around recreational pot, writes The Denver Post editorial board. It makes no sense, for example, that the state requires the testing of retail marijuana for contaminants, potency and homogeneity but not medical marijuana.
Colorado medical marijuana: Only one of the 15 recommendations for rule changes presented by the Department of Regulatory Agencies got a yes or a no by the Senate Finance Committee; the rest will be debated later.
Two years into recreational marijuana legalization, Colorado is taking a second look at its rules for medical marijuana.
Nick Brown, The Denver Post’s 2000 Gold Helmet Award winner from Woodland Park High School, has established a lucrative dispensary business in the Colorado Rockies.
This Q&A handles readers’ cannabis queries. Topics include recreational marijuana cultivation licenses, out-of-state shoppers and edibles purchase limits.
Harry Smith returns to his Colorado stomping grounds to explore “Marijuana Country: The Cannabis Boom” on CNBC, a one-hour documentary sizing up the state one year after legal sales started.
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.
With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, it’s not surprising that the Colorado cannabis lobbying industry is growing almost as fast as the plants.
Medical marijuana patients are suing the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment over patient fees. The Patient and Caregiver Rights Litigation Project says the health department wants to illegally use registry application fees to fund new research on medical marijuana.
Colorado’s Board of Health has approved up to $8 million in grants to pay for eight studies on medical marijuana, the largest-ever state-funded effort to study the medical efficacy of cannabis.
The migration to Colorado by families of sick children seeking medical marijuana is fueled by hope, not science. Little is known about the treatment’s effects, and researchers suggest that some parents see progress because they’re desperate to see it.
The Indo Expo Denver trade show , happening Nov. 15-16, has partnered with the Denver Mart to produce the business-to-business (“B2B”) trade show twice a year for the next decade.
Colorado’s changing marijuana regulations: Whether changes will come from market forces or from the legislature is yet to be determined. But one thing is certain: The state’s caregiver model invites fraud.
While Herijuana is great for pain relief, I recommend reserving it for the end of the day. This is a strain that gives you a bear hug you don’t want to end. It’s a head-over-heels kind of high in that I’m flat on my back, warm from the numbness that becomes increasingly more pervasive.
Denver police officers, some in hazmat suits, raided multiple marijuana-growing operations Tuesday, part of an investigation into illegal marijuana sales in Minnesota, a federal law enforcement official said.
The Miami jewel fence. The disgruntled former business partner. The shots fired into an upscale Adams County home. New documents in federal court reveal the staggering extent of the investigation into Denver dispensary VIP Cannabis and its related operations.
New rules for the medical marijuana program in Colorado are under consideration by the state Board of Health Wednesday.
As far as marijuana grow operations go, the three warehouses in southwest Denver certainly looked legit. Far from a clear-cut marijuana bust, recent cases show how difficult police say it is to investigate suspected illegal marijuana growing in Colorado.
