Marijuana

Commerce City Kush, a creation of Denver breeder Rare Dankness, hasn’t achieved stardom yet – but this hyper-local indica definitely has widespread potential.

Dixie Brands is voluntarily recalling some of its edibles products because of the presence of non-food ingredients, according to the Denver Department of Environmental Health and confirmed by Dixie.

Infused-tablet company Stratos and medical marijuana evaluation clinic Holos Health have been hosting a series of “Cannabis 101” classes for the public at Balfour Senior Living residences.

What are the best pot-infused edibles to help with insomnia? Our Stoner is here to help.

Nearly 92,000 Coloradans have active medical marijuana cards, according to the Medical Marijuana Registry, and spent around $75 to get them. How much weed do they have to buy to start noticing the savings?

Marijuana taxes are just a drop in the bucket of Colorado education’s ginormous needs, according to this reader.

On August 7, USA Today published an op-ed by Jeff Hunt, vice president of public policy at Colorado Christian University, titled “Marijuana Devastated Colorado, Don’t Legalize It Nationally.” Hunt’s reefer madness-inspired piece — as well as the alleged facts, studies and sources he used to hammer home his point — elicited quite the response from reader.

Owning a pot-smoking utensil can require a lot of upkeep — and anyone who uses them frequently knows how hard removing that black tar and wax reclaim can be.

Some of these strains are named in partnership between the musician and the commercial cultivations that grow them, while others were simply named by black market breeders who noticed a similarity between a strain’s effects and the way an artist’s music made them feel.

With CBD and THC options available in numerous states now, a reader wants to know what type of edibles she can order in the mail.

Cherry Creek School District’s superintendent wrote in 2016 that his school district hadn’t received any money from marijuana tax revenue, but information from the Colorado Department of Education shows otherwise. Unfortunately, by then Jeff Hunt had already used that letter to bolster his op ed about marijuana in USA Today.

During a recent interview with Westword, Smart Approaches to Marijuana President and CEO Kevin Sabet, one of America’s most influential critics of cannabis legalization, offered an unexpected observation about his visits to Denver. According to Sabet, a number of vehicles provided to him by Denver International Airport rental car businesses over the past few years have smelled strongly of pot. He added that he’s had to exchange rentals multiple times at DIA before he’s been given one that didn’t reek of weed, giving him multiple opportunities to “educate” personnel at the agencies about the scope of a problem he views as positively chronic.

WiFi is a good example of taking two semi-popular strains and creating something better. Don’t get me wrong: The White and Fire OG are fine strains in their own right, but they don’t bring the same potency and amenable high as their child, which carries on the White’s fertile resin-gland production and Fire OG’s tart, earthy flavors.

Casara Andre is stuck between a rock and a hard place. In fact, so are all of her clients and some of her colleagues. The owner of Scheduled Relief veterinary clinic and a practicing veterinarian, Andre believes cannabis products have medical benefits for pets, but she can’t legally recommend cannabis for her furry patients.

A man from out of state wants to know if Colorado’s haven for smoking pot will protect him if he fails a drug test back home.

The drafters of Denver’s social cannabis consumption initiative have been vocal about their dissatisfaction with the city’s finalized rules and distance requirements for businesses applying to open a consumption area. Now they’re taking it a step further, threatening to sue the City of Denver if less restrictive rules aren’t put…

Kevin Sabet, the president and CEO of Virginia-based Smart Approaches to Marijuana, has become arguably the most influential critic of marijuana legalization in the United States. But in an extended interview on view below, he fights against the perception that he’s a one-dimensional prohibitionist along the lines of U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Sabet stresses that he and his organization, shorthanded as SAM, take what he sees as a sensible approach to cannabis by arguing in favor of treatment rather than jail time for users in trouble and advocating for greater study of the substance to determine the best ways to utilize it medically.

Wyoming is considered one of the best theaters on the West Coast to view the eclipse. Many of those visitors are expected to come from Colorado, but Wyoming sheriffs have a message for us: don’t bring your weed.

Kirke LLC/Metro Denver Telluride Health Center LLC, known to its customers as The Hemp Center, has voluntarily issued a recall on medical marijuana products because of potentially unsafe levels of four banned pesticides.

Jeff Sessions, a proponent of the war on drugs, hasn’t been shy about saying that marijuana should remain illegal federally. So on April 3, four governors of the states with legal recreational cannabis businesses up and running, including Colorado, sent him a letter. And finally, the Attorney General has responded.

Jeff Hunt, the vice president of Public Policy at Colorado Christian University, invited Westword and others to share his op-ed, “Marijuana Devastated Colorado, Don’t Legalize It Nationally” earlier this week. Although we declined, USA Today obliged in spreading Hunt’s reefer-madness gospel on August 7