Marijuana

Any physician who doesn’t know the difference between THC, CBD and hemp-seed oil isn’t worth talking to about medical marijuana.

Fort Collins-based New West Genetics received certification for its ELITE hemp genetics from the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies and Colorado Department of Agriculture.

Cactus Breath typically sticks to the West Coast and doesn’t stray much, but at least one Denver pot shop carries it.

Most of the coverage on the Sweet Leaf investigation has focused on those arrested and the dispensary chain itself. But what about Sweet Leaf’s medical marijuana patients?

A bill in the Colorado Senate calls for a tracking agent to be “applied” to marijuana and hemp plants, which could mean spraying, rubbing,  spreading and many other things.

Strains like Blue Dream will always be popular in dispensaries because of their high yields and toughness against fungus and temperature fluctuation.

The list of licensed recreational pot shops in Colorado was fewer than four pages long when sales began on January 1, 2014, according to the Marijuana Enforcement Division. Today, it’s nearly thirteen pages.

Attorney Rob Corry has now filed a second complaint in regard to the Denver 420 Rally. He’d previously sued the City and County of Denver on behalf of rally co-founder Miguel Lopez, who lost his priority event status and was banned from putting on the event during the next three years for allegedly violating his permit by leaving Civic Center Park trashed. Now, he wants injunctive relief on behalf of another client, Michael Ortiz, who was initially granted a permit for April 20 only to have his application denied by Allegra “Happy” Haynes, Denver’s Parks and Rec director, and given instead to Euflora, a dispensary chain with very different plans for the gathering.

While the USPS has been catching more packages with pot, as much as 90 percent of the marijuana that’s mailed is not detected.

A dispensary analytics firm says tourism plays a major role in the shift in sales numbers, with pot revenue usually peaking in the summer months.

The U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado told members of the state’s congressional delegation that the new memo from Sessions would not change the way that his office approaches cannabis prosecutions in Colorado, according to a spokeswoman for Congresswoman Diana DeGette.

Here are ten strains that’ll help you deal with the mockery these fuck boys in Washington, D.C., have been making of our country.

Corry’s clients and nine other current and former Sweet Leaf employees were arrested during raids at company locations across the Denver metro area by Denver Police Department officers on December 14.

Pot, beer and no driving? We’re game.

In “Mailing Marijuana Out of Colorado: How Likely Are You to Get Caught?,” published circa November 2015, the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area’s Tom Gorman estimated that 90 percent of illegally shipped cannabis packages weren’t being found by postal inspectors. More than two years later, figures from a pair of recent analyses maintain that hundreds more pot-packed parcels are being intercepted than in previous years even as our Ask a Stoner columnist suggests that successfully mailing weed out of state is still a snap if proper precautions are taken.

Science isn’t on your side for this one, unfortunately.

Most of Colorado’s legislators publicly came out against the Sessions Memo the same day it was issued. Now they’re turning those words into actions – or more words, at least.

Colorado Harvest Company received a retail dispensary license from the City of Aurora in 2015, one of only 24 available citywide, but had to sell it in 2017 to another familiar dispensary chain: Starbuds.

Conjuring the voice of Katt Williams screaming “This shit right here?!” as he rants about the ridiculous names of pot strains, Death by Lemons might sound like an absurd attempt by the breeder to get some attention, and some tokers think it is.

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

Cannabutter can last months if sealed, but infused cooking oil lasts much longer.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s announcement about rescinding the Cole memo, an Obama-era Department of Justice document that provided some legal protections for businesses operating in states that allow and regulate cannabis sales, has shaken the marijuana industry in Colorado and beyond. But Justin Strekal, political director for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), isn’t surprised by this action. As we noted last July, Strekal believes an op-ed from the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation enumerating eleven ways the administration of President Donald Trump can kill legal cannabis is being used by Sessions and company as a crackdown guideline, and junking Cole is fifth on the list.