420 Rally Organizers Still Waiting to Hear Fate of Appeal

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

Lyft, CDOT and Pot Industry Giving Ride Discounts to Decrease Stoned Driving

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.

Amendment 64 OGs Take a Victory Lap with CSU

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.

Brookings Institute Calls Out Jeff Sessions for Blocking MMJ Research

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.

Little Brown House, Reefer Madness Pot Products Recalled Over Pesticides

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…

Front Range Biosciences Partners With UC Davis to Study Hemp Genome

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…

Denver Officials Teach Global Leaders About Legal Pot

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?