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While advocating for a bill to create a safe-injection site pilot program, Representative Leslie Herod, a vocal backer of the measure, told us, “We already have a safe-use site in Denver. It’s operated illegally, and it’s operating because of need. That’s our Denver Public Library” — specifically the central branch at 10 West 14th Avenue Parkway, where six people overdosed during the first three months of 2017 alone — “and it’s a huge problem. We need to move that population away from the library, and away from the bathrooms in coffee shops and restaurants, and move them to a place where they can get connected with services.” But that’s not going to happen now, because the legislation is officially dead.

If you keep a cartridge filled with butane hash oil around long enough without using it, you’ll notice that it turns darker and thicker and has a bitter taste with less potency.

I desperately tried to tiptoe around the flu bug that just swept through Denver, popping vitamin C and obsessively washing my hands for weeks. Didn’t matter. Within twelve hours of feeling a tickle in my throat, fluids were exiting my body as though I were a Civil War soldier stricken…

Even though Coloradans voted to legalize medical marijuana use in 2000 and recreational pot sales in 2012, employers in the state can still legally sack workers who score positive for cannabis on drug tests. But the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws’ local branch is trying to change that. Denver NORML executive director Jordan Person says the organization is currently looking for Colorado legislators to sponsor a bill that would prevent businesses from, in her words, “firing people on Wednesday for performing a lawful activity on Saturday.”

Most hot hemp crops occur when farmers are working with a new seed, according to the Colorado Department Agriculture, but other factors can cause a THC spike in hemp plants, such as the growing environment and overly long flowering periods.

The Three a Light app is based on the book of the same name that aims to teach regular people how to increase their yields from their cannabis plants.

Colorado has seen sustained growth in cannabis sales revenue since introducing retail sales, increasing over 120 percent from 2014 to 2017.

The NCIA Seed to Sale Show, held in Denver for the last two years, will move to Boston in 2019, according to an announcement from the NCIA.

Some readers claim that a little herb goes a long way in lowering their sexual inhibitions, increasing euphoria and prolonging their perception of time.