Marijuana

Cannabis event will be busting out all over Colorado in June, with the debut of a new weekly series, a regular Sunday showcase and employee training courses.

The recent arrests and legal actions against a former Marijuana Enforcement Division official and several marijuana industry license-holders here in Colorado has been touted by Attorney General Jeff Sessions as an example of why this industry is not working. In actuality, a regulated system like the one in Colorado has created a boom for us in the areas of job creation, revenue generation and increased law enforcement support.

There’s no question that cannabis prices are going down in Colorado…but what’s happening to quality? Readers disagree about whether lower costs equate to lower quality.

Colorado is used to seeing marijuana sales tax dollars spike in April thanks to the 4/20 holiday on April 20, but that wasn’t the case this year, according to sales tax data from the Colorado Department of Revenue.

When price is definitely an object, there are some go-to spots where you can always count on finding at least two or three decent strains available for $25 an eighth — no shake, no popcorn buds, no coupon required.

Only days after the release of a study saying that collision claim frequencies in Colorado are about 3 percent higher overall than would have been expected without marijuana legalization comes a competing report stating that the crash fatality rates haven’t changed significantly. These seemingly contradictory findings leave one marijuana reformer confused but certain that the sky isn’t falling.

Members of the Justice Department’s Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety have been ordered to “undertake a review of existing policies” regarding federal marijuana law enforcement, among other things. Their report is due on or before July 27, and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws believes the document may use as its template a list by a fellow at the ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation of eleven ways the administration of President Donald Trump can shut down legal cannabis.

A reader wants to know where to find a strain with equal amounts of THC and CBD. Our Stoner has the answer.

The Vie was developed in Denver, where for almost three years Barak Rigbi has worked on a vaporizer that smokes flower and concentrates, and can be sold for a reasonable price. “Let’s start a revolution,” promises the company’s website.

Two marijuana businesses, Denver Marijuana and Denver Smoke Buds, are currently being investigated by the BBB, and a warning was recently sent out to consumers.

Deadhead OG is a hybrid bred by California-based Cali Connection Seeds, but it’s not hard to find in Denver if you go to the right places – and it’s worth the search if you’re in pain, emotionally or physically.

A reader wants to know if a U.S. passport works as ID at a dispensary. Our Stoner has the answer

Colorado State University has expanded its addiction counseling program to include instruction on how counselors should deal with those addicted to marijuana — whether physically or emotionally. Readers think it’s the wrong focus.

Check out some of Colorado’s finest rosin and shatter slabs and how dabbers are enjoying them.

The Drug Enforcement Administration has released an intelligence report given out to law enforcement agents to help them keep up with the latest drug lingo. There are nearly 300 terms on the list; here’s a sample, along with our definitions.

EatDenver, a nonprofit group of independent restaurants, held a panel discussion June 14 for chefs and restaurateurs who wanted to learn about to learn about cooking and serving around legal marijuana consumption. Here are ten tips served up at that event.

Most users consider marijuana addiction a myth, but Colorado State University’s psychology department takes it seriously…so seriously that it’s focusing on marijuana in its new master’s program on addiction counseling.

Is anyone fooled by hash pens? According to our Stoner, only those who want to be, since these are the equivalent of brown paper bags.

Fox News, which has a history of portraying Colorado pot smokers as apathetic morons, recently ran a piece suggesting that the Western Slope community of Durango has been overtaken by panhandlers in the wake of recreational cannabis legalization. The head of a business organization that created a Facebook video ripping the article as false says the Fox News reporter with whom he spoke seemed disinterested in any information that contradicted his conclusion that weed had put the town on the fast road to hell even though the supposed link between homelessness and cannabis has been widely discredited.

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is sending a clear signal to the administration of President Donald Trump following the latest negative words and deeds aimed at legal marijuana in Colorado and beyond by Justice Department officials Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein. In the words of NORML policy director Justin Strekal, “Should the Department of Justice decide to throw out the Tenth Amendment and respect for states’ rights as they govern their own interstate commerce, they’re going to have a fight on their hands.”

Over a hundred people crammed into a hearing room in the Webb building for nearly three hours on June 13, to give Denver officials a final round of feedback on the proposed social-consumption regulations to implement Initiative 300, which Denver voters approved last November.