Reader: Until Legalization Spreads, People Will Continue to Buck the System
While the USPS has been catching more packages with pot, as much as 90 percent of the marijuana that’s mailed is not detected.
While the USPS has been catching more packages with pot, as much as 90 percent of the marijuana that’s mailed is not detected.
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.
The U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado told members of the state’s congressional delegation that the new memo from Sessions would not change the way that his office approaches cannabis prosecutions in Colorado, according to a spokeswoman for Congresswoman Diana DeGette.
Here are ten strains that’ll help you deal with the mockery these fuck boys in Washington, D.C., have been making of our country.
Corry’s clients and nine other current and former Sweet Leaf employees were arrested during raids at company locations across the Denver metro area by Denver Police Department officers on December 14.
Pot, beer and no driving? We’re game.
In “Mailing Marijuana Out of Colorado: How Likely Are You to Get Caught?,” published circa November 2015, the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area’s Tom Gorman estimated that 90 percent of illegally shipped cannabis packages weren’t being found by postal inspectors. More than two years later, figures from a pair of recent analyses maintain that hundreds more pot-packed parcels are being intercepted than in previous years even as our Ask a Stoner columnist suggests that successfully mailing weed out of state is still a snap if proper precautions are taken.
Science isn’t on your side for this one, unfortunately.
Most of Colorado’s legislators publicly came out against the Sessions Memo the same day it was issued. Now they’re turning those words into actions – or more words, at least.
Colorado Harvest Company received a retail dispensary license from the City of Aurora in 2015, one of only 24 available citywide, but had to sell it in 2017 to another familiar dispensary chain: Starbuds.
Conjuring the voice of Katt Williams screaming “This shit right here?!” as he rants about the ridiculous names of pot strains, Death by Lemons might sound like an absurd attempt by the breeder to get some attention, and some tokers think it is.
Euflora is now first in line to hold an event on April 20 in Civic Center Park, and it’s planning some changes.
Cannabutter can last months if sealed, but infused cooking oil lasts much longer.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s announcement about rescinding the Cole memo, an Obama-era Department of Justice document that provided some legal protections for businesses operating in states that allow and regulate cannabis sales, has shaken the marijuana industry in Colorado and beyond. But Justin Strekal, political director for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), isn’t surprised by this action. As we noted last July, Strekal believes an op-ed from the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation enumerating eleven ways the administration of President Donald Trump can kill legal cannabis is being used by Sessions and company as a crackdown guideline, and junking Cole is fifth on the list.
Thanks to hemp-derived CBD, getting a cannabis-infused massage in Denver is much easier (and more legal) than it used to be.
After Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole memo, cannabis consumers lit into the AG.
You probably won’t have to worry about getting swept up by the DEA on your way home from the pot shop, but that doesn’t mean you should start cutting corners with your basement grow.
In the wake of United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinding the Cole Memorandum, much of the discussion has focused on how the move will affect legal pot businesses…but at least one business owner is more concerned about how it will affect consumers, and very specific consumers at that.
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded nine years of federal cannabis protections on January 4. Now Denver’s mayor and a challenger are weighing in.
Retail cannabis industries around the country were dealt a collective shock today, January 4, after United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo to United States Attorneys rescinding the Cole Memo, federal protections for the cultivation, distribution and possession of pot. Now, hours after the announcement became official, Colorado lawmakers, businesses owners and activists are weighing in.
Republican Senator Cory Gardner is pushing for the feds to continue recognizing the rights of states to legalize marijuana.
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions is expected to rescind Obama-era legal cannabis protections on January 4, according to a report from the Associated Press.