We recently caught up with Ricardo Baca to talk about his transition from reporter to potrepreneur.

Moving away from CDOT’s “Drive High, Get a DUI” campaign of public service announcements and materials, the new initiative will ask Coloradans to participate in anonymous online surveys about their opinions and actions related to stoned driving.

Fourth Corner sued the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City in 2015 over its refusal to issue the credit union an account. It lost in district court, but that decision was overturned in June 2017 by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The owners of the Coffee Joint will go before a hearing officer on Friday, February 9.

Tony Magee, who founded Lagunitas in 1993 on his wife’s stovetop in their Bay Area home, compared the start of his business to the early days of many cannabis operations.

It would be the first state-licensed cannabis spa in the nation if approved, offering infused massages, yoga and other pot-friendly activities, as well as meditation coaching, educational seminars and support and networking groups.

Simply Pure owner Wanda James will lead a protest today, February 6, outside of her dispensary on the corner of West 32nd Avenue and Tejon Street decrying a construction project she says is hurting businesses in the area.

West started Women Grow in Denver shortly after recreational cannabis sales began to give women businesses owners opportunities to network and grow and has since turned it in to a force to be reckoned with.

A bill written in hopes of addressing a legislative mistake that is costing special districts across the state millions of dollars has moved forward in the Colorado General Assembly.

According to Seedo, larger American cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Phoenix would see the most tax revenue if the country legalized pot.

Amendment 64, the initiative that legalized retail marijuana, allows cities to decide whether to ban or allow marijuana businesses, and if so, which type of businesses.

Classes teaching the ins and outs of the cannabis industry have been around for years, but Inspyre wants to reach professionals further away from the plant than trimmers and growers.

A bipartisan group of 54 senators and representatives signed the letter, including Colorado representatives Ed Perlmutter and Diana DeGette.

National Association of Cannabis Businesses members include Colorado-based Dixie Elixirs, Love’s Oven, Ebbu and Local Product of Colorado.

No products in dispensaries, including those that were recalled, carry the Bronnor name prominently on the packaging, because Bronnor manufactures infused-products for other companies.

Butane hash oil has been the dominate variety of cannabis oil used to fill the cartridges since retail sales began in 2014, but now distillate, once an expensive treat, is pushing old techniques out the door.

One bill to fix the pot-tax gaffe has zero co-sponsors. The other has fifty. One bill was sponsored by Steve Lebsock. The other was not.

Several Colorado state representatives have put their names on a brief supporting the industrial hemp industry in federal appeals court.

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.

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.

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.