One of Denver’s most esteemed medical dispensaries is finally open for recreational customers. Verde Natural, an East Colfax staple for cannabis patients since 2009, officially started retail sales last week.
Browne’s new competition, the Hash-Off, pitted sixteen Denver concentrate makers against each other, giving each team two pounds of the same strain: Toxic Kool Aid.
Exactly five years after Amendment 64 passed, the Marijuana Accountability Coalition launched, announcing its vows to “push back on the recreational marijuana industry” in Colorado.
MMJ Registry improvements have reduced the waiting time for application approvals and denials to less than one month through the mail, and one day for online applications.
The fate of the 2018 Denver 420 Rally remains uncertain, despite the fact that Thursday, November 9, had been circled on calendars as the day that a hearing officer would decide the appeal of rally organizers who’d protested after the City of Denver banned their event permit for three year
More than a dozen towns and counties across Colorado voted on cannabis business and sales tax measures on November 7, with the vast majority approving the measures. Rocky Ford also legalized the recreational marijuana sales.
To help combat the risk of driving a car while under the influence of cannabis, three organizations at the center of the issue are giving out ride-sharing discounts for users across Colorado. Lyft, the Colorado Department of Transportation and the Marijuana Industry Group have teamed up again to encourage users to plan ahead for a sober ride through their collaborative 320 Movement program, offering monthly ride discounts through April 2018.
Another medical marijuana cultivation has seen its products recalled because of potentially unsafepesticide residues, according to the Colorado Department of Revenue.
The library’s Archives and Special Collections division started an initiative in 2015 to collect and document media coverage, oral histories, business and political materials, scholarly opinions and other content pertaining to the marijuana and industrial hemp movements in Colorado.
Dispensaries might get all the attention, but hemp farmers are getting the acreage – 23,343 acres to be exact, according to a new study. And the state growing the most? Colorado, by far.
Celebrities getting into Colorado’s legal cannabis game is nothing new, with Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, Wiz Khalifa and Tommy Chong all slapping their names on some form of pot product. Now, you can add Whoopi Goldberg to that list.
One of Colorado’s largest hash manufacturers has added another product to its lineup. O.penVape, known for its pre-filled vaporizers cartridges, has rolled out the ISH pens, a new line of distillate products geared toward novice cannabis consumers.
One of the country’s most well-known think tanks is calling out United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his repressive attitude towards cannabis, particularly medical marijuana. The Brookings Institution released an op-ed Wednesday, October 25, criticizing his “biases on the issue, a division of opinion between him and the president he serves, and a federal government effort to stand in the way of the free conduct of research” in regards to growing medical marijuana for research purposes.
Medical and recreational cannabis flower and concentrates from Little Brown House and its sister dispensary, Reefer Madness, are being voluntarily recalled after Denver Department of Environmental Health investigations determined that the products carried potentially unsafe levels of banned pesticides. DEH investigators found evidence of residual levels of myclobutanil, a chemical…
Growing and processing industrial hemp has become a big business as barriers break down in states with legalized cannabis. Now one Boulder laboratory is starting a study with a university agriculture program to learn more about desirable hemp genetics, much as that program has studied grapes for the wine industry…
A $5.5 million study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, will monitor 2,500 sets of twins aged 23 to 29 in Colorado and Minnesota over a five-year span to see how marijuana has affected them.
The owner of a Denver dispensary chain wants to be the new organizer of a 4/20 festival at Civic Center Park so bad that he’s camping outside city buildings. Pepe Breton, co-founder of Euflora, wasn’t very happy with how the last 420 Rally shaped out, so he’ll be sitting outside of…
More Americans than ever support cannabis legalization, according to a new Gallup poll.
The effects of legalized cannabis on Colorado are still heavily disputed, but Dr. Larry Wolk, the state’s top health official, says that we’ve been pretty responsible with this legal pot thing.
Rob Trotter didn’t see the same obstacles that most hydroponic-loving cultivators do when he decided to start a commercial cannabis grow on his ranch in Eagle County, a few miles outside of the town of Gypsum. To be blunt, he can’t see much of anything these days: Trotter is 85 percent blind.
Four other states have opened for recreational cannabis sales since Colorado started the trend in 2014, and three more have passed laws legalizing it. So why does Denver still feel the need to bring in local, state and national regulators from around the world to talk about pot?
Unfortunately for professional athletes who play one of our country’s most painful sports, they don’t have access to it without risking their job status. However, more former professional football players are speaking out about their preference for cannabis, and some of them are former Denver Broncos.
