Medical and recreational cannabis flower and concentrates from Little Brown House and its sister dispensary, Reefer Madness, are being voluntarily recalled after Denver Department of Environmental Health investigations determined that the products carried potentially unsafe levels of banned pesticides. DEH investigators found evidence of residual levels of myclobutanil, a chemical…
Growing and processing industrial hemp has become a big business as barriers break down in states with legalized cannabis. Now one Boulder laboratory is starting a study with a university agriculture program to learn more about desirable hemp genetics, much as that program has studied grapes for the wine industry…
A $5.5 million study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, will monitor 2,500 sets of twins aged 23 to 29 in Colorado and Minnesota over a five-year span to see how marijuana has affected them.
The owner of a Denver dispensary chain wants to be the new organizer of a 4/20 festival at Civic Center Park so bad that he’s camping outside city buildings. Pepe Breton, co-founder of Euflora, wasn’t very happy with how the last 420 Rally shaped out, so he’ll be sitting outside of…
More Americans than ever support cannabis legalization, according to a new Gallup poll.
The effects of legalized cannabis on Colorado are still heavily disputed, but Dr. Larry Wolk, the state’s top health official, says that we’ve been pretty responsible with this legal pot thing.
Rob Trotter didn’t see the same obstacles that most hydroponic-loving cultivators do when he decided to start a commercial cannabis grow on his ranch in Eagle County, a few miles outside of the town of Gypsum. To be blunt, he can’t see much of anything these days: Trotter is 85 percent blind.
Four other states have opened for recreational cannabis sales since Colorado started the trend in 2014, and three more have passed laws legalizing it. So why does Denver still feel the need to bring in local, state and national regulators from around the world to talk about pot?
Unfortunately for professional athletes who play one of our country’s most painful sports, they don’t have access to it without risking their job status. However, more former professional football players are speaking out about their preference for cannabis, and some of them are former Denver Broncos.
Jeff Hunt has never been a fan of Colorado voters approving to legalize recreational cannabis, but he’s been waging a very public war on pot since April. Now he wants Colorado legislators to return any campaign donations from the cannabis industry, calling it a “direct threat to the minds, health and well-being of Colorado’s youth.”
Beloved Community Village in RiNo, a tiny-home development that houses fifteen people who were previously homeless, is now debt-free thanks to a donation from LivWell Enlightened Health.
With nearly 240 licensed indoor grows in Denver, the city was a fitting host for the hundred-plus cannabis growers, energy consultants and waste experts attending the Cannabis Sustainability Symposium, a two-day conference geared towards increasing efficiency and sustainability in commercial pot.
A pot-friendly costume party scheduled to take place at a Denver bar last weekend was abruptly canceled after organizers say the Colorado Liquor Enforcement Division threatened the status of the bar’s liquor license. The Chelloween Costume Bash had been scheduled for Saturday, October 14, at Tennyson’s Tap in West Denver. Its Facebook event…
Although it’s been available to medical patients for some time, Green Dot’s Black Label Nectar wasn’t sold on the retail side because state licensing regulations that require medical and recreational cultivations remain separate.
Colorado marijuana sales continue to hit new milestones, surpassing $1 billion in sales two months faster in 2017 than the year before, according to tax revenue data from the Colorado Department of Revenue.
Marijuana’s path towards overall public acceptance has been measured in baby steps, with most government institutions and authorities slow to recognize its medical and social relevance or ignoring it altogether. However, at least one arm of Colorado’s government has embraced the plant: the public library.
Coloradans against the legalization of cannabis have found their collective voice at the Centennial Institute and Colorado Christian University’s symposium, which will continue until 4:30 p.m. October 6.
Nearly four years after Coloradans voted to legalize recreational marijuana, cannabis continues to be a divisive topic throughout the state. On October 6, cannabis attorney Rob Corry and anti-pot activist Jeff Hunt will debate the subject.
All medical marijuana edibles, concentrates and other infused products made in Colorado will soon be subject to mandatory potency testing now that state testing laboratories have reached an acceptable level of proficiency, according to the Marijuana Enforcement Division. Retail marijuana product manufacturers have been required to send all of their…
Denver Easy’s brand-new crowdfunding campaign asks for $100,000 to help secure a location, pay staff, build a vape bar and apply for an official Designated Consumption Area Permit.
With its new, pot-funded program to give people simulated conversations about alcohol and drug abuse, a Denver non-profit hopes the public will start helping itself.
Sunday, October 1, marked the eightieth anniversary of House Bill 6385: the Marihuana Tax Act, the first time penalties were federally levied against the possession, production and sale of cannabis.
