Euflora is now first in line to hold an event on April 20 in Civic Center Park, and it’s planning some changes.

You probably won’t have to worry about getting swept up by the DEA on your way home from the pot shop, but that doesn’t mean you should start cutting corners with your basement grow.

In the wake of United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinding the Cole Memorandum, much of the discussion has focused on how the move will affect legal pot businesses…but at least one business owner is more concerned about how it will affect consumers, and very specific consumers at that.

United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded nine years of federal cannabis protections on January 4. Now Denver’s mayor and a challenger are weighing in.

Retail cannabis industries around the country were dealt a collective shock today, January 4, after United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo to United States Attorneys rescinding the Cole Memo, federal protections for the cultivation, distribution and possession of pot. Now, hours after the announcement became official, Colorado lawmakers, businesses owners and activists are weighing in.

United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to rescind Obama-era legal cannabis protections on January 4, according to a report from the Associated Press.

Several states have opened for retail marijuana sales since Colorado started the trend in 2014, but none of them cast a shadow like California.

Three Sweet Leaf budtenders arrested for alleged illegal cannabis sales saw their first court date in Denver County Court on Friday, December 29, with one of the defendant’s attorney leaving the court feeling optimistic.

Covering Colorado’s marijuana landscape has brought me to farms, hash factories, schools and much more, but my weirdest journalistic field trip this year started at an empty warehouse off Interstate 25 in south Pueblo.

Charges have been filed against ten budtenders arrested during the raids at Sweet Leaf locations across the Denver metro area on December 14.

The Colorado Department of Revenue has instituted a round of emergency rule changes to the state marijuana code, according to an announcement from the DOR. The changes are effective immediately.

There were plenty of contenders, but these were the biggest marijuana stories in Colorado this year.

Members of Denver’s cannabis community are banding together to hold fundraisers in support of Sweet Leaf employees affected by the company’s swift indefinite shutdown by the Denver Police Department, Marijuana Enforcement Divisions and other enforcement agencies on December 14.

A Boulder potrepreneur wants to share both his wealth and his interest in cannabis: Matt Kind, host of the podcast CannaInsider, is starting a scholarship fund to encourage students to consider a job in legal pot.

The new initiative, “High Costs,” was funded by revenue from the city’s sales tax on retail cannabis and was created with the help of a city-organized youth commission and youth surveying and focus groups

Lightshade has partnered with Amazing Grace Community Church in Thornton to fully fund the church’s food pantry.

According to a DPD announcement, the raids were conducted because Sweet Leaf stores were allegedly selling unlawful amounts of cannabis to customers, a term known as “looping.”

Blue Dream became the top-selling strain in Colorado dispensaries in February 2014, and it kept that title for over 39 months.But its favored status is slipping.

The legal-marijuana industry in the United States is projected to reach nearly $10 billion in sales in 2017, a 33 percent rise over 2016, according to Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics. While much of that growth can be attributed to a new retail market in Nevada and more states legalizing medical marijuana, Colorado is still the biggest player in the industry.

Sweet Leaf, one of Colorado’s largest cannabis businesses, closed multiple locations across the Denver metro area after the Denver Police Department issued both search and arrest warrants on Thursday, December 14, according to the DPD and the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses.

Although the International Church of Cannabis doesn’t practice Christianity, it’s still more than happy to help ring in Christmas. The Elevationist church will host a pop-up holiday market Friday, December 14.

Even in our fourth year of retail sales, Colorado’s cannabis industry and its citizens saw changes aplenty to rights and regulations.