Marijuana

Hazelnut Cream is more likely to be part of a basic bitch’s Starbucks order than a weed purchase, yet thanks to the commercial boom in cannabis breeding, here we are.

Legal cannabis and homeless are two hot-button issues in Denver, and the two came to a head Monday, December 11, during a Denver City Council meeting. Experts from Colorado homeless centers and research institutions explained to council members that for the most part, the data just isn’t there to prove a connection between legal cannabis and homeless.

A new federal study shows that marijuana use among teens in Colorado has fallen below levels seen prior to the implementation of Amendment 64, the measure that legalized limited recreational cannabis sales in the state. Given the report’s origins, attorney and activist Brian Vicente, who co-authored Amendment 64, says haters of progressive marijuana laws such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions will find it more difficult than ever to suggest that these statistics are flawed.

Thanks to CBD’s rise in popularity, you can buy edibles and certain strains with THC levels of anywhere from 1 to 12 percent.

The Coffee Joint, a a planned coffee shop and pot lounge at 1136 Yuma Court, just off Interstate 25 and West Eleventh Avenue, submitted its application on Friday, December 8, according to Denver Excise and Licenses Department director of public affairs Daniel Rowland.

Compelling questions about CBD products showing up on drug tests, age requirements to buy CBD products and many more CBD-related inquiries dominated our most popular questions of 2017.

This week our Stoner offered them some suggestions for how to enjoy a true Rocky Mountain high at a ski area. Readers had their own ideas.

Westword’s most-read marijuana stories of 2017.

Industry executives and advocates from across the country came to the birthplace of retail cannabis to see who’d be recognized for their influence, and Colorado was well represented. Twelve of the business that went home with trophies are based in Colorado, while a handful of individual winners are from here, too.

To better mirror consumption trends, the study uses subjects who just dabbed hash…but not on campus.

The City of Denver should be more transparent in the way it spends our tax dollars, specifically money from legal cannabis revenue, according to Denver Auditor Timothy O’Brien.

Since we’re in Colorado, why not include something infused with cannabis in your loved one’s stocking this year? There’s plenty of pot goodies and accessories available at dispensaries and online for both regular and occasional users.

Sneaking tokes on the mountain isn’t very hard, but if you don’t want paranoia to dampen your shred sesh, try an edible.

The in-house edibles brand for one of Colorado’s largest dispensary chains has issued a voluntary recall for a flavor its infused sodas.

In the weed world, Berry White (the strain, not the legendary baritone) has been given the Puff Daddy treatment, with Blue Widow, Blue Venom and White Berry serving as alter-egos.

Forty teams of medical marijuana growers put themselves to the test in the Grow Off, a competition that gives commercial marijuana cultivations the same genetics and then tests the harvest for potency, terpenes and yield.

You don’t start your dinner with dessert, do you? Apply that strategy to your sesh or your appetite will be ruined.

Michael Ortiz, who last week snagged the permit for a 4/20 event at Civic Center Park in April 2018, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the owner of the Euflora dispensary chain through his lawyer.

The city has issued a permit for Civic Center Park for April 20, so it looks like the show will go on in 2018. But what kind of show will it be?

Thanks to cannabis edibles, gingerbread men aren’t the only ones getting baked on cold winter nights anymore.

One of Denver’s longstanding dispensary brands has expanded. Good Chemistry, known for its East Colfax Avenue pot shop since 2009, has opened a new location on South Broadway.

Since shortly after the 2012 passage of Amendment 64, which permitted limited recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, we’ve reported about alleged pot profiling. Over the years, multiple drivers have said they were pulled over for little or no reason while driving a car with Colorado license plates by state troopers in bordering states on the lookout for cannabis, with Kansas among the most frequently mentioned problem jurisdictions. Now, just over a year since a federal court ordered that pot profiling in Kansas end, a Denver-area resident tells us she’s recently been stopped three times in the state by law enforcers who apparently became interested in her the second she saw that her plate represented a legal-pot state.