Marijuana

In the weed world, Berry White (the strain, not the legendary baritone) has been given the Puff Daddy treatment, with Blue Widow, Blue Venom and White Berry serving as alter-egos.

Forty teams of medical marijuana growers put themselves to the test in the Grow Off, a competition that gives commercial marijuana cultivations the same genetics and then tests the harvest for potency, terpenes and yield.

You don’t start your dinner with dessert, do you? Apply that strategy to your sesh or your appetite will be ruined.

Michael Ortiz, who last week snagged the permit for a 4/20 event at Civic Center Park in April 2018, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the owner of the Euflora dispensary chain through his lawyer.

The city has issued a permit for Civic Center Park for April 20, so it looks like the show will go on in 2018. But what kind of show will it be?

Thanks to cannabis edibles, gingerbread men aren’t the only ones getting baked on cold winter nights anymore.

One of Denver’s longstanding dispensary brands has expanded. Good Chemistry, known for its East Colfax Avenue pot shop since 2009, has opened a new location on South Broadway.

Since shortly after the 2012 passage of Amendment 64, which permitted limited recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, we’ve reported about alleged pot profiling. Over the years, multiple drivers have said they were pulled over for little or no reason while driving a car with Colorado license plates by state troopers in bordering states on the lookout for cannabis, with Kansas among the most frequently mentioned problem jurisdictions. Now, just over a year since a federal court ordered that pot profiling in Kansas end, a Denver-area resident tells us she’s recently been stopped three times in the state by law enforcers who apparently became interested in her the second she saw that her plate represented a legal-pot state.

Given the lack of impairment research, marijuana’s effects on drivers aren’t as documented as the effects of alcohol, but according to a new poll, Americans already know what to worry about: our addiction to cell phones.

United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions continues to make frightening remarks for state-legalized pot industries across the country, slipping in a few jabs about cannabis use during his most recent press conference.

For some, legalizing retail pot in 2012 wasn’t the end of the fight.

It’s taken nearly four years, but Thornton’s first cannabis dispensary is officially open.

Denver Environmental Health’s recently announced prohibition on the sale of kratom for human consumption is making news and stirring controversy from coast to coast. Among those concerned is David Kroll, a onetime cancer researcher and Colorado pharmacologist now working in North Carolina as a freelance health journalist for Forbes, among other outlets. Kroll is also a nationally recognized expert on kratom, as well as the historical roots of the governmental and financial forces currently lined up against it, and in his view, “banning it is going to hurt more people than it’s going to save. That’s my scientific prediction.”

Born in Boulder’s Green Dream Cannabis cultivation, Bubba Fett is an indica-dominant hybrid with Pre-’98 Bubba Kush and Stardawg genetics. Not to be confused with Boba Fett or Bubba Fett OG, two indica-dominant hybrids with completely different lineages, Bubba Fett is currently a Colorado-only strain.

While the new license-holder for Civic Center Park on April 20, 2018, begins working out the details, we wanted to submit our very particular 420 wish list to Santa.

On November 20, Denver Environmental Health banned kratom for human consumption in the wake of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration alert issued a week or so earlier. This decision set off a firestorm of criticism from kratom advocates, who see this action as demonizing a plant-based substance that relieves pain without the well-known negative effects of more powerful opioids. Seconding these views is Nicholas Moodley, who started his own Denver-based kratom business, Kratom Cafe USA, after using the product to kick an opioid habit that seemed on the verge of overwhelming him.

Go with cartoons. Not Dreamworks or Pixar; adult cartoons with violence and drama.

The Denver-based cannabinoid extractor has announced a new line of cannabidiol (CBD), cannabinol (CBN) and cannabigerol (CBG) products aimed to help treat skin.

Thanksgiving weekend was a big one for pot sales and other specials in Denver, and the holiday season is also looking lit.

The Denver Department of Environmental Health recently banned the sale of kratom for human consumption. The decision followed a public-health advisory issued on November 14 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warning individuals not to consume kratom, a popular herbal substance of Southeast Asian origin that’s become more widely…

Two of the largest dispensary chains in Colorado – and the world – continue to grow this fall, as Native Roots and the Green Solution each open new stores before the holiday season.

The MED had been holding stakeholder meetings and accepting public feedback on many of the proposed rules since September.