Why Colorado Tokers Love The Cough

The Cough — also known as Colorado Cough and Fort Collins Cough, depending on whom you ask — is a homegrown strain out of Fort Collins, popping up in Colorado State University dorms in the late ’90s and gaining popularity as the medical marijuana industry expanded its footprint after 2008.

Denver Roofer Offering $500 in Free Weed If You Buy a New Roof

It only takes one hail storm to see how competitive the roofing wars of Denver get, with companies offering hundreds of dollars in gift cards and rebates to buy a new roof. But one roofer is combining his trade with another Colorado pastime for a higher return, offering customers $500 in weed if they buy a new roof.

Could Cristina Barbuto’s Court Win Help Coloradans Fired for Medical Pot?

The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that a company acted improperly when it fired medical marijuana patient Cristina Barbuto after she tested positive for pot. The Colorado Supreme Court reached the opposite conclusion in an analogous 2015 case, determining that DISH had the right to dismiss paralyzed MMJ patient Brandon Coats following his own positive test for cannabis. And while the Barbuto finding won’t directly impact the Colorado case, Coats’s lawyer sees a trend toward granting more patient protections here and in other medical marijuana states.

NCIA Colorado Cannabis Caucus: “Keep Fighting the Good Fight”

On Thursday, July 13, cannabis professionals ascended on Denver’s Cultivated Synergy for a quarterly meeting held by the National Cannabis Industry Association. But this wasn’t any ordinary meeting; it was a caucus – a cannabis caucus. And the group was rallying to keep fighting for legal marijuana.