The data is beginning to back up those concerns.

When Colorado voters approved legalizing cannabis in late 2012, state lawmakers had to quickly start brushing up on a formerly taboo topic. One of them, a rookie state representative from Longmont named Jonathan Singer, soon found himself neck-deep in a cannabis conversation that didn’t stop for eight years.

“People call in their orders almost all of the time, and it becomes a five minute transaction instead of a twenty minute transaction.”

Marijuana sales aren’t struggling this summer, but tattoo parlors are.

Despite several efforts, the pot industry continues to fail to break into Loveland.

“We started this here, legalization. I personally feel an obligation to pass it on.”

Colorado hemp farmers want less restrictive rules than the USDA is proposing.

Around 100 different harvest batches were recalled.

The Republican senator believes current federal hemp rules are too restrictive.

The originally agreed upon acquisition package will remain, according to an August investor presentation by Columbia Care.

What weed hangover?

Recreational marijuana delivery won’t be legal in Colorado until 2021, but Aurora is already looking into the business practice.

Trinidad’s 25 dispensaries see plenty of consumers, but they don’t have anywhere to smoke their weed socially.

Pesticides, like THC, are more concentrated in marijuana extracts than flower.

“We’re not yet at the point that we can publicly share the details of what we are negotiating.”

Leftover marijuana plant matter can’t be disposed like most twigs and leaves.

Only medical marijuana dispensaries are currently allowed in Lakewood.

The East Coast rapper partnered with a Colorado cannabis grower to produce a OG-heavy strain, Super Thug.

“I’m not open to the public, and that is the big issue I have.”

Dispensaries are riding a hot streak during the pandemic.

Weeks after deciding to ban marijuana hospitality establishments in Trinidad, the town’s city council chose to revisit the decision.

In a 2020 survey, 0 percent of Denver cannabis business owners identified as Asian.