Marijuana

While every dispensary in Colorado needed some time to recover after 4/20, they stayed on their Insta-game. Here’s our favorite weed porn posted by dispensaries this week.

Governor John Hickenlooper and a group of other governors met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week while in Washington, D.C., for the National Governors Association Winter Meeting. On their agenda? Marijuana. “We approached Attorney General Sessions with the notion that if we’re going to make changes, we should do it together and kind of collaborate on it,” he told Chuck Todd on MSNBC.

Does marijuana improve sex? Our Stoner has the answer.

Star Wars strains have quietly claimed a healthy niche in a galaxy that takes us far, far away. Many of them trace their roots back to OG Kush; Death Star, Darth Vader OG, Skywalker OG and Yoda OG are all either phenotypes of, or bred from, an OG strain. Colorado breeder Rare Dankness continued that powerful line of strains with StarKiller OG.

Every year Xcel Energy honors organizations with energy efficiency awards, and for the first time, a cannabis business is on the list of honorees. LivWell won the company’s Lighting Efficiency Achievement Award for its efforts to save energy and reduce itsimpact on the environment. “It’s the highest energy saving for…

Starting May 1, Denver dispensaries will be allowed to stay open until 10 p.m. Denver City Council approved the three-hour extension on Monday, April 24, after studying the issue for the last few months.

An attorney who plays a key role in the annual Denver 4/20 Rally is pushing back against criticism of the event delivered by Mayor Michael Hancock and other officials at an April 24 press conference. Rob Corry insists that organizers didn’t violate their permit for Civic Center Park and rejects the possibility of fines because the location was still strewn with garbage the next morning. He also feels that Denver should accept some responsibility for problems at the gathering, including long security lines that eventually led to some attendees breaking down a fence — and he makes it clear that should city reps attempt to prohibit the rally entirely, they’d wind up in court.

A reader wants advice on healthy edible alternatives after a workout. Our Stoner has the answer.

Colorado’s cannabis industry continues to break records. This February’s recreational sales were the second-highest for a month, falling just shy of the $88.2 million sold in September 2016, according to data released Monday by Marijuana Business Daily. Marijuana sales of both medical and recreational marijuana in Colorado totaled more than…

Last Thursday’s 420 Rally was a disaster. The Denver police made 48 arrests, and Civic Center Park was trashed.On April 24, Mayor Michael Hancock held a press conference in the park to address concerns about the rally, and announced that he has launched an inter-departmental review to better understand what occurred at the event and which permit requirements weren’t met or went ignored.

April has been a big month for marijuana news. Here are three things you might have missed during the 4/20 holiday:

Blend, a group messaging app, reviewed the group chats of more than 300,000 millennial users on 4/20 to see what terms, emojis, and strains were most popular on the holiday. “Let’s smoke” was twice as popular as any other term, and Blue Dream had almost double the mentions of any other strain. Here’s the breakdown:

Did you make it to Denver’s celebration of the sacred stoner holiday? If not, we’ve got you covered. Events all over town brought the crowds, despite the rain.

Denver hosted one of the largest cannabis celebrations in the country this week and the party continues through the weekend. Check out our list of events you can still attend this weekend and our coverage leading up to 4/20, the 420 Rally, and how to create a cool marijuana-themed dinner at home.

4/20 is over, but there are plenty of cannabis events through the month.

The morning after the 2017 version of the Denver 4/20 Rally, Civic Center Park was still a mess and angry residents were phoning local TV stations with complaints. But as noted by Miguel Lopez, wearing a yellow hoodie that accurately identified him as “Chief Event Organizer” for the rally, his permit allows him until noon the next day to fully clean up the area. Lopez was confident he’d still be able to make that deadline despite delays caused after the festival was over by a man with a knife who’d slashed open garbage bags and scattered trash that had already been collected.

How are you feeling today? Good? Great. Since 4/20 has already become a Colorado holiday, we’d like to suggest a secondary holiday on April 21. It would be like Black Friday, but without the shopping and stress. A day a day to relax with some CBD.

Banking has been a notorious pitfall for marijuana business owners. Even in Colorado, the first state to sell recreational marijuana legally, banks still refuse to work with dispensaries, growers and any other industry ventures for fear of federal scrutiny. The majority of Colorado’s marijuana economy is all cash-based, which comes with a variety of safety concerns for customers and gray area for business owners and tax officials.  As a result, Littleton-based CanPay is becoming a popular solution.

For the second consecutive year, the vibe of the Denver 4/20 Rally at Civic Center Park was harshed by Mother Nature. The weather for the bash held yesterday, April 20, was far better than in 2016, when a snowstorm forced a postponement until May 21. But an afternoon rain that ranged from drizzly to steady increased the misery of those who had to stand in line for an hour or more in some cases in order to gain entry to the festival grounds, which were protected by a fence that attendees eventually broke down in the minutes before the annual 4:20 p.m. countdown.

For the second year in a row, the 420 Rally at Civic Center Park was a bummer. With a passionate crowd of thousands still out in the rain, the organization and the entire event didn’t do this huge, cannabis-loving crowd justice.

Want to grow weed with Wiz Khalifa? Now you can… at least virtually. The rapper is launching a mobile app on 4/20 called “Wiz Khalifa’s Weed Farm.”