Over 100 guests gathered at Lone Hawk Farm in Longmont on July 13 for the latest Mason Jar Events seasonal cannabis-pairing dinner, where chef Jamey Fader whipped up a gourmet family feast paired with a variety of pot products. Everything consumed at the dinner was sourced locally, including the cannabis

Colorado was one of the first states to embrace medical marijuana, but that doesn’t mean you can just walk into a hospital with
over a pound of pot – yet that’s what a man allegedly did at a Lakewood emergency room.

Strains like Blueberry and Strawberry Cough have long been popular thanks to their distinct flavors, so Evolab has unveiled a new line of hash oil for fans of fruity cannabis. Just in time for the 7/10 holiday, the concentrate company has announced its Colors products, a line of CO2-extracted oils infused with naturally derived fruit flavors.

Dispensary shelves across Colorado are about to become more consistent now that a new distribution law has taken effect, according to several cannabis businesses owners. The law, passed in June and effective July 1, now allows third-party couriers and distributors to store cannabis inventory in third-party locations and gives them more time to ship products.

Denver has prepared for the 7/10 holiday, with a colossal number of deals on concentrates around town through mid-July. Here’s a list of 7/10 events and some of Mile High’s best dispensary deals this month.

Nevada became the fourth state to open recreational marijuana dispensaries July 1, following the footsteps of Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska. As newly liberated cannabis consumers flock to dispensaries for some of Nevada’s first legal herb, media reports are already showing the state is experiencing growing pains Colorado’s cannabis industry can relate to.

Denver released the city’s final version of social-cannabis consumption permit rules and regulations on Friday, June 30, setting the stage for private consumption lounges as early as fall 2017, according to Denver officials. The social-use ordinance rules, set up in response to the passage of Initiative 300 by Denver voters last fall, will be part of a three-year pilot program set for review by Denver City Council in 2020.

State and federal agencies joined forces at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus on June 28 to teach a full class of cannabis industry employees about health and safety practices in the workplace.

The Green Solution has become one of the largest cannabis retailers in the country, with twelve dispensaries open now and three more expected to debut this summer. And its location in Silver Plume, a town with a population of less than 200 people, is about to become the first of its kind: It will become a marijuana outlet store, something previously unseen in Colorado’s cannabis industry.

The MED’s summer stakeholder groups will provide suggestions and input for the agency’s 2017 rulemaking session as it deliberates changes to industry regulations and legislation implementation. Anyone is allowed to apply.

Denver dispensaries have been able to stay open until 10 p.m. since May, but how many are taking advantage? We list every pot shop in the city of Denver that has extended its hours.

The city of Thornton has only allowed one dispensary for each of the city’s four geographical quadrants, setting the stage for open recreational dispensaries as early as late summer. Although Thornton city officials say none of the stores are close to finishing construction, the locations and licensees are set, and they’re all familiar brands to consumers used to buying cannabis in Denver or Aurora.

Colorado is used to seeing marijuana sales tax dollars spike in April thanks to the 4/20 holiday on April 20, but that wasn’t the case this year, according to sales tax data from the Colorado Department of Revenue.

EatDenver, a nonprofit group of independent restaurants, held a panel discussion June 14 for chefs and restaurateurs who wanted to learn about to learn about cooking and serving around legal marijuana consumption. Here are ten tips served up at that event.

Most users consider marijuana addiction a myth, but Colorado State University’s psychology department takes it seriously…so seriously that it’s focusing on marijuana in its new master’s program on addiction counseling.

Over a hundred people crammed into a hearing room in the Webb building for nearly three hours on June 13, to give Denver officials a final round of feedback on the proposed social-consumption regulations to implement Initiative 300, which Denver voters approved last November.

Colorado’s new laws address a wide array of issues in commercial marijuana, industrial hemp and the grey and black markets, but Governor Hickenlooper hasn’t given every bill his official go-ahead. Here’s a breakdown of each marijuana related bill Hickenlooper has seen, the actions he’s taken with them and when they’ll become effective.