The new initiative, “High Costs,” was funded by revenue from the city’s sales tax on retail cannabis and was created with the help of a city-organized youth commission and youth surveying and focus groups
Lightshade has partnered with Amazing Grace Community Church in Thornton to fully fund the church’s food pantry.
According to a DPD announcement, the raids were conducted because Sweet Leaf stores were allegedly selling unlawful amounts of cannabis to customers, a term known as “looping.”
Blue Dream became the top-selling strain in Colorado dispensaries in February 2014, and it kept that title for over 39 months.But its favored status is slipping.
The legal-marijuana industry in the United States is projected to reach nearly $10 billion in sales in 2017, a 33 percent rise over 2016, according to Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics. While much of that growth can be attributed to a new retail market in Nevada and more states legalizing medical marijuana, Colorado is still the biggest player in the industry.
Sweet Leaf, one of Colorado’s largest cannabis businesses, closed multiple locations across the Denver metro area after the Denver Police Department issued both search and arrest warrants on Thursday, December 14, according to the DPD and the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses.
Although the International Church of Cannabis doesn’t practice Christianity, it’s still more than happy to help ring in Christmas. The Elevationist church will host a pop-up holiday market Friday, December 14.
Even in our fourth year of retail sales, Colorado’s cannabis industry and its citizens saw changes aplenty to rights and regulations.
The health agency of the United Nations has officially recommended that cannabidiol (CBD) not be internationally scheduled as a controlled substance.
The Colorado Department of Revenue will now display legal cannabis sales revenue data on its website dating back to 2014, when retail cannabis sales began. Previously, the DOR only included monthly tax and license revenue reports.
Legal cannabis and homeless are two hot-button issues in Denver, and the two came to a head Monday, December 11, during a Denver City Council meeting. Experts from Colorado homeless centers and research institutions explained to council members that for the most part, the data just isn’t there to prove a connection between legal cannabis and homeless.
The Coffee Joint, a a planned coffee shop and pot lounge at 1136 Yuma Court, just off Interstate 25 and West Eleventh Avenue, submitted its application on Friday, December 8, according to Denver Excise and Licenses Department director of public affairs Daniel Rowland.
Industry executives and advocates from across the country came to the birthplace of retail cannabis to see who’d be recognized for their influence, and Colorado was well represented. Twelve of the business that went home with trophies are based in Colorado, while a handful of individual winners are from here, too.
To better mirror consumption trends, the study uses subjects who just dabbed hash…but not on campus.
The City of Denver should be more transparent in the way it spends our tax dollars, specifically money from legal cannabis revenue, according to Denver Auditor Timothy O’Brien.
The in-house edibles brand for one of Colorado’s largest dispensary chains has issued a voluntary recall for a flavor its infused sodas.
Forty teams of medical marijuana growers put themselves to the test in the Grow Off, a competition that gives commercial marijuana cultivations the same genetics and then tests the harvest for potency, terpenes and yield.
Michael Ortiz, who last week snagged the permit for a 4/20 event at Civic Center Park in April 2018, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the owner of the Euflora dispensary chain through his lawyer.
One of Denver’s longstanding dispensary brands has expanded. Good Chemistry, known for its East Colfax Avenue pot shop since 2009, has opened a new location on South Broadway.
Given the lack of impairment research, marijuana’s effects on drivers aren’t as documented as the effects of alcohol, but according to a new poll, Americans already know what to worry about: our addiction to cell phones.
United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions continues to make frightening remarks for state-legalized pot industries across the country, slipping in a few jabs about cannabis use during his most recent press conference.
It’s taken nearly four years, but Thornton’s first cannabis dispensary is officially open.
