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More 4/20 Week Things to Do in Denver Plus Pot Business Cap News and More

By Thomas Mitchell

Apr 18, 2016

Although not quite as popular as the 4/20 concerts and rallies this week, a Denver City Council committee could begin this month's biggest change in Denver's marijuana industry today when it votes on the city's long-discussed proposal to set a limit on retail marijuana businesses. The bill's sponsor, Councilwoman Robin Kniech,...

Update: Saturday's Civic Center Rally Postponed; What Else to Do in Denver on 4/20 Week

By Thomas Mitchell

Apr 16, 2016

Put your Gatorade on ice and throw those eyedrops in the trash: 4/20 is almost here. Unfortunately for you chumps with day jobs, the high holiday doesn't officially start until Wednesday – but you're also the crowd that actually has money to spend, so there's plenty of cannabis action to...

4/20 Predictions: Pot Sales and Edibles Prices Up, Flower Prices Down

By Thomas Mitchell

Apr 11, 2016

Although it won't be quite the stampede of Black Friday, 4/20 is expected to generate some serious revenue in Colorado dispensaries. The four days between April 17-20 provided Colorado dispensaries with three of the state's highest-selling days in 2015, according to a recent report from BDS Analytics, which says that...

Marijuana Businesses Should Be Banned in Pueblo County, New Petition Says

By Thomas Mitchell

Apr 4, 2016

Pueblo County's welcoming attitude towards marijuana businesses could flip if a recently filed petition to ban marijuana business gains November ballot status and voter approval. Filed last week by Pueblo City attorney Dan Oldenburg and tree company owner Kenny Gierhart, the petition calls for a ban on issuing licenses to new marijuana...

Over 60 Percent of Americans Believe Marijuana Should Be Legal, Survey Says

By Thomas Mitchell

Mar 28, 2016

Prohibitionists beware: Support for marijuana legalization has reached a record high among Americans. According to a study conducted in February by the Associated Press NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 61 percent of the 1,042 adult Americans polled support the legalization of marijuana — the highest percentage ever recorded in...

Prediction: Colorado Dispensaries Will Sell $1 Billion Worth of Weed in 2016

By Thomas Mitchell

Mar 21, 2016

Colorado sold a little less than $1 billion worth of legal pot to consumers last year, but an annual industry report expects that amount to increase in 2016. The Marijuana Business Daily's yearly Marijuana Business Factbook holds high hopes for the legal pot trade, estimating the national market to be worth up...

Inside Pesticide-Free Certification Program for Pot Grows

By Thomas Mitchell

Mar 14, 2016

An independent, pesticide-free certification process will soon be offered to Colorado's commercial marijuana grows in an effort to raise industry credibility and consumer safety. As commercial marijuana grows continue to receive plant quarantines and product recalls over the use of potentially harmful pesticides, herbicides and fungicides, one industry group is...

High Times Cancels Permit Application for Cannabis Cup in Pueblo

By Thomas Mitchell

Mar 7, 2016

The High Times Cannabis Cup may not be coming to Pueblo after all. According to a spokeswoman for Pueblo County Commissioners, the magazine has pulled its Special Events Permit application for the annual cannabis festival. After getting the boot from the Denver Mart by Adams County Commissioners in February thanks...

High Times Cannabis Cup's Move to Pueblo Still Up in Air

By Thomas Mitchell

Feb 29, 2016

News broke earlier in February that Adams County had denied the High Times Cannabis Cup's event permit, only for the publication to later announce that the festival would move to Pueblo. But now, the status of the Pueblo site is also in question. Originally scheduled to be at the Denver...

Legal Marijuana Used Over $6 Billion in Energy Last Year, Report Says

By Thomas Mitchell

Feb 22, 2016

Legal indoor marijuana grows are consuming energy at an exorbitant rate, according to a recent report by a cannabis industry data provider. While most of legalized marijuana's effects on communities are measured in terms of dollars and crime statistics, electricity usage is becoming an issue of growing concern among environmentalists...

Vaping Terpenes: Future of Pot or Silly Gimmick?

By Thomas Mitchell

Feb 15, 2016

We've seen vaporizers rise in popularity over the past few years as an option for cannabis consumption, including devices that can vape marijuana flower and hash oil with relative ease. Now you can add another compound of the marijuana plant to the list, and you've probably been smoking it without...

Inside the Pesticide-Free Marijuana Certification Program

By Thomas Mitchell

Feb 8, 2016

A bill introduced to the state legislature in January would create a certification program for commercial marijuana growers to label their products "pesticide-free." As the legal marijuana industry and the authorities that regulate it try to figure out the snowballing pesticide issue in Colorado's cannabis products, Representatives Jonathan Singer of...

Legal U.S. Marijuana Sales Up 184 Percent, Report Says

By Thomas Mitchell

Feb 1, 2016

One aspect of marijuana's legalization that isn't up for debate is demand, as a recent report says adult pot sales in the U.S. were up 184 percent in 2015. According to marijuana investment group ArcView, and financial data firm New Frontier, America's legal recreational marijuana industry sold $998 million in...

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