Marijuana

Three years ago, a group of women came together in Denver to form their own cannabis community and they called it Women Grow. Now, the organization has more than 1,500 members in 35 states and each group gets together the first Thursday of every month.

Women Grow, founded in Denver in 2014, was created to connect entrepreneurs in cannabis with other thought leaders and empower the next generation of cannabis businesswomen.  The organization is hosting its annual Leadership Summit in Denver right now; women and men from all over the country came to share their stories, network and learn more about what it means to be an entrepreneur in cannabis. We sat down Women Grow CEO Leah Heise to learn more about the organization and her plans for 2017.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder may be the next addition to Colorado’s list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana.  On January 30, the state Senate committee on Veterans and Military Affairs heard arguments for SB 17-17, the Post-Traumatic Stress Bill, before a standing-room-only crowd.

Advocacy for cannabis at the national level is more important now than ever before, said Aaron Smith, executive director of the National Cannabis Industry Association, as he opened NCIA’s Seed to Sale show on January 31. NCIA ensures that cannabis-industry professionals have a voice and a seat at the table in Washington D.C., Smith noted as he explained not only how NCIA represents the cannabis industry in D.C., but how the organization plans to protect cannabis at the national level — and how the industry in Colorado can help.

Mowgli Holmes gave the keynote at the Seed to Sale Show in Denver on February 1, and he taught the crowd a thing or two — or six — about cannabis. Holmes is the co-founder and chief scientific officer at Phylos Bioscience, which has created a web of over a thousand cannabis strains. The web links strains that are in the same family and provide growers and consumers with scientific knowledge about the plant that has never been documented in one place before.

Superheroes are all the rage these days. But before Hollywood started cashing in on characters that most of us never knew existed, the weed world was already starting the party, with strains like Kryptonite, Harlequin and Thor’s Hammer. Yet the most popular superhero strain is actually named after a skinny alter ego: Bruce Banner. Like the Incredible Hulk he morphs into when angry, Bruce Banner’s namesake strain comes in multiple forms and can obliterate a man’s face with one punch.

We’ve just learned about the death of Laura Kriho, one of Colorado’s most outspoken advocates for cannabis reform. As the woman behind the Cannabis Therapy Institute, she championed the medicinal attributes of marijuana, and while her efforts on behalf of Legalize 2012 ultimately came in second place behind the successful Amendment 64 campaign,  her tireless dedication to pushing for ever-more progressive cannabis policies was as inspirational as it was important.

Since it founded a medicinal grow in 2009, Colorado Harvest Company has had a commitment to clean cannabis, adding a recreational operation in 2014 and always improving on a well-oiled system. That system has earned Colorado Harvest Company a growing reputation for quality.As more and more states legalize marijuana, Colorado Harvest hosts many out-of-state visitors who want to observe grow operations.

Our Stoner answers questions about organic marijuana and hash-oil refills.

A specialized spectrum of invisible light that will kill all the pesticides in your grow: that’s what SpectrumGro promises.
The light emanates from rods about an inch and a half thick and 48 inches long. They’re installed two feet from the crop, either above it, under it, or to the side, and once they’re turned on in the grow, they get to work eliminating pesticides in the plants and in the soil. The light eliminates mold, bacteria, fungi, powdery mildew, and most kinds of yeast.

The INDO Expo brought its fifth cannabis trade show to the Denver Mart January 28 to 29, attracting both industry insiders and members of the public eager to learn about the latest innovations and advances in marijuana. Over the years, the show has doubled the number of booths and attendance has tripled.

This month, we’ve been sharing our favorite Instagram photos from dispensaries, growers, and protests of Trump’s inaguration. Now, we’ve rounded up our favorite posts from you. Enjoy!

Coloradans suffering from mental illnesses have been left behind when it comes to the state’s legalization efforts, according to Teri Robnett, founder and executive director of Cannabis Patients Alliance. That’s why advocates plan to perform 22 pushups on the steps of the State Capitol on Monday, January 30, as part of an effort to get Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), among other mental illnesses, on the list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana in Colorado.

TDA_Boulder has no problems with its employees getting high — for the sake of creativity. The advertising agency partnered with grower Colorado Kind to create three specific strains of weed for “The Fifty,” the 2017 theme for the Denver Ad Club’s annual awards show. Each strain was tailored to aid different personality types in the advertising profession.

Emmett Reistroffer was one of the authors of Initiative 300 and worked on the campaign to get the social-use ordinance passed last November. Now the event planner serves on the city’s social consumption advisory committee. We sat down with Reistroffer to chat about social use, the first committee meeting, and what he thinks about how the process is going.

Here are the six best places to buy marijuana late night in and around Denver.

Marijuana and hip-hop have a long and harmonious relationship, so much so that the names of most hybrid strains sound like rap-song titles. If I told you I was listening to “Girl Scout Cookies” by OG Kush featuring Durban Poison or “The Truth” by SFV OG featuring Chemdawg, you’d probably think…

For the last four years, anytime police seized cannabis in a criminal investigation, they’ve been required to care for it — either by keeping the plants alive or by returning the marijuana in a usable form to the owner. That’s no longer the case.

Thirty percent of marijuana businesses are audited each year by the IRS; cannabis companies are always dealing with new regulations. Wurk is trying to work out solutions for these challenges.

Why has dispensary service been so slow in Colorado lately? Our Stoner has the answer.

Nearly three years ago, the first of three marijuana amnesty boxes was installed at Aspen-Pitkin County Airport. The idea behind the boxes was to give fliers a way to dispose of legal cannabis before they boarded a plane bound for a destination where the substance might be against the law, and Pitkin County Undersheriff Ron Ryan considers the containers to be a success, even though weed isn’t the only aromatic thing sometimes being left in them.