The city of Thornton has only allowed one dispensary for each of the city’s four geographical quadrants, setting the stage for open recreational dispensaries as early as late summer. Although Thornton city officials say none of the stores are close to finishing construction, the locations and licensees are set, and they’re all familiar brands to consumers used to buying cannabis in Denver or Aurora.

Colorado is used to seeing marijuana sales tax dollars spike in April thanks to the 4/20 holiday on April 20, but that wasn’t the case this year, according to sales tax data from the Colorado Department of Revenue.

EatDenver, a nonprofit group of independent restaurants, held a panel discussion June 14 for chefs and restaurateurs who wanted to learn about to learn about cooking and serving around legal marijuana consumption. Here are ten tips served up at that event.

Most users consider marijuana addiction a myth, but Colorado State University’s psychology department takes it seriously…so seriously that it’s focusing on marijuana in its new master’s program on addiction counseling.

Over a hundred people crammed into a hearing room in the Webb building for nearly three hours on June 13, to give Denver officials a final round of feedback on the proposed social-consumption regulations to implement Initiative 300, which Denver voters approved last November.

Colorado’s new laws address a wide array of issues in commercial marijuana, industrial hemp and the grey and black markets, but Governor Hickenlooper hasn’t given every bill his official go-ahead. Here’s a breakdown of each marijuana related bill Hickenlooper has seen, the actions he’s taken with them and when they’ll become effective.

Patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder can now apply for medical marijuana in Colorado, after Governor John Hickenlooper signed SB17 into law on June 5. That means this state has finally caught up with 22 other states and U.S. territories that allow medical marijuana for the treatment of PTSD.

The Colorado Department of Agriculture, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and the Occupational Safety and Health Association are teaming up to host a health-and-safety course for marijuana employees this summer, as the industry continues to grow and add more workers. No, this isn’t anything like Steven Seagal training…

When Colorado legalized cannabis, people had a lot of questions. More than three years after recreational dispensaries first opened their doors in this state, researchers are starting to answer some of those questions. While many marijuana studies focus on the general public, most of the people surveyed for a just-released report by the Cannabis Consumers Coalition were regular users who consume cannabis at least once a day.

Colorado has been a 4/20 destination for more than a decade, and the allure of tax dollars helped spur a legalization movement that now brings tens of millions of consumer dollars into the state every April. Data from the Colorado Department of Revenue shows that Colorado made $2.49 million from…

A Denver-based medical marijuana edibles manufacturer has recalled almost 1,000 products from dispensary shelves because of potentially harmful marijuana, according to an announcement from the Denver Department of Environmental Health. Approximately 980 Mountain Medicine products are subject to a recall because they were made with marijuana flower from Good Meds,…

The new occupants of an old church at 400 South Logan Street have been raising eyebrows since Google Maps starting listing the address as the “International Church of Cannabis.” Practioners of Elevationism, Steve Berke and Lee Molloy plan a three-day grand-opening leading to 4/20.

Since Colorado became the first state to legalize recreational cannabis in 2012 — with the first legal sales on January 1, 2014 — lawmakers have been fine-tuning its systems, taking on residential plant counts, marijuana delivery services, hemp water rights and more in 2017’s legislative season.