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An attorney who plays a key role in the annual Denver 4/20 Rally is pushing back against criticism of the event delivered by Mayor Michael Hancock and other officials at an April 24 press conference. Rob Corry insists that organizers didn’t violate their permit for Civic Center Park and rejects the possibility of fines because the location was still strewn with garbage the next morning. He also feels that Denver should accept some responsibility for problems at the gathering, including long security lines that eventually led to some attendees breaking down a fence — and he makes it clear that should city reps attempt to prohibit the rally entirely, they’d wind up in court.

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Colorado’s cannabis industry continues to break records. This February’s recreational sales were the second-highest for a month, falling just shy of the $88.2 million sold in September 2016, according to data released Monday by Marijuana Business Daily. Marijuana sales of both medical and recreational marijuana in Colorado totaled more than…

Last Thursday’s 420 Rally was a disaster. The Denver police made 48 arrests, and Civic Center Park was trashed.On April 24, Mayor Michael Hancock held a press conference in the park to address concerns about the rally, and announced that he has launched an inter-departmental review to better understand what occurred at the event and which permit requirements weren’t met or went ignored.

April has been a big month for marijuana news. Here are three things you might have missed during the 4/20 holiday:

Blend, a group messaging app, reviewed the group chats of more than 300,000 millennial users on 4/20 to see what terms, emojis, and strains were most popular on the holiday. “Let’s smoke” was twice as popular as any other term, and Blue Dream had almost double the mentions of any other strain. Here’s the breakdown:

Did you make it to Denver’s celebration of the sacred stoner holiday? If not, we’ve got you covered. Events all over town brought the crowds, despite the rain.

Denver hosted one of the largest cannabis celebrations in the country this week and the party continues through the weekend. Check out our list of events you can still attend this weekend and our coverage leading up to 4/20, the 420 Rally, and how to create a cool marijuana-themed dinner at home.

4/20 is over, but there are plenty of cannabis events through the month.

The morning after the 2017 version of the Denver 4/20 Rally, Civic Center Park was still a mess and angry residents were phoning local TV stations with complaints. But as noted by Miguel Lopez, wearing a yellow hoodie that accurately identified him as “Chief Event Organizer” for the rally, his permit allows him until noon the next day to fully clean up the area. Lopez was confident he’d still be able to make that deadline despite delays caused after the festival was over by a man with a knife who’d slashed open garbage bags and scattered trash that had already been collected.

How are you feeling today? Good? Great. Since 4/20 has already become a Colorado holiday, we’d like to suggest a secondary holiday on April 21. It would be like Black Friday, but without the shopping and stress. A day a day to relax with some CBD.

Banking has been a notorious pitfall for marijuana business owners. Even in Colorado, the first state to sell recreational marijuana legally, banks still refuse to work with dispensaries, growers and any other industry ventures for fear of federal scrutiny. The majority of Colorado’s marijuana economy is all cash-based, which comes with a variety of safety concerns for customers and gray area for business owners and tax officials.  As a result, Littleton-based CanPay is becoming a popular solution.

For the second consecutive year, the vibe of the Denver 4/20 Rally at Civic Center Park was harshed by Mother Nature. The weather for the bash held yesterday, April 20, was far better than in 2016, when a snowstorm forced a postponement until May 21. But an afternoon rain that ranged from drizzly to steady increased the misery of those who had to stand in line for an hour or more in some cases in order to gain entry to the festival grounds, which were protected by a fence that attendees eventually broke down in the minutes before the annual 4:20 p.m. countdown.

For the second year in a row, the 420 Rally at Civic Center Park was a bummer. With a passionate crowd of thousands still out in the rain, the organization and the entire event didn’t do this huge, cannabis-loving crowd justice.

Want to grow weed with Wiz Khalifa? Now you can… at least virtually. The rapper is launching a mobile app on 4/20 called “Wiz Khalifa’s Weed Farm.”

To mark 4/20, the Denver Police Department has tweeted a GIF featuring happily grooving cops and the slogan, “Have a safe and happy 4/20, Denver!” But the message that accompanies the images makes it clear that if people don’t consume responsibly, “we’ll bust u guys.”

Whether you’re hitting up the 420 Rally, 420 on the Block, or any of the other numerous events downtown, there are some great spots to visit when you get the munchies.

Butane is illegal, but as our Stoner reports, there are other ways to make hash at home.

A new study on marijuana use and attitudes toward legalization was released earlier this week — just in time for 4/20. The Marist Poll Weed & the American Family survey, funded by Yahoo News,found that more than half of the adults in America have tried marijuana at least once in their lives; nearly 55 million people in this country currently use marijuana.

The secret mandatory ingredient in the first Colroado Grow-Off was Race Fuel OG (also known as Race Fuel), a mix of High Octane OG and Face Off OG, two OG-heavy strains with names that leave little to the imagination.

Attorney Matthew Buck has filed a lawsuit in what he calls “the largest fraud case in the history of Colorado’s marijuana industry.” This contention is rejected by Scott Pack, the entrepreneur at the center of it.