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…
It’s no secret that public support for marijuana legalization is on the rise, but there’s common ground where even prohibitionists can sometimes meet recreational pot supporters: the medical benefits of the plant. So far, 23 states have passed legislative measures to legalize medical marijuana, and 16 have legalized its non-psychoactive…
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…
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…
The Colorado Department of Agriculture is hoping to help bring hemp into the limelight with a new program that’s a first for the country. Under its brand-new seed certification program, created in conjunction with the Colorado Seed Growers Association (CSGA) and Colorado State University, the CDA aims to give the…
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…
The Colorado Department of Transportation doesn’t want you to smoke weed and drive, as we report in this week’s cover story, “Weed Limit,” but thinking about where you can stop off to buy weed is apparently just fine. In fact, there are now small signs along I-70 and I-25 that…
Melanie Brinegar woke up one morning in July 2014, took her daily dose of medicine and then headed to work. She never got there. Police pulled her over for an expired license plate, then noticed an empty dispensary bottle in the back of her car. Brinegar, an employee of RiverRock…
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…
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…
Marijuana legalization has been in full motion for a while now, and dispensaries are finally starting to gather and comprehend retail data like other big-money industries. Cannabis industry data collection firm BDS Analytics recently released its first study on Colorado and Washington marijuana dispensaries, surveying the purchase rates of marijuana…
Medical marijuana’s CBD craze has shown no signs of slowing down, with high-CBD strains and pure-CBD oils in almost every dispensary in Colorado — but where are the CBD edibles? A Denver area couple says they’re ready to fill that void, and they don’t need a dispensary — or even…
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…
Facebook has been shutting down the pages of marijuana businesses around the country recently, and Colorado’s cannabis outfits are no exception. Earlier this month High Times reported that three of New Jersey’s five state-licensed medical marijuana dispensaries found their Facebook pages deleted, and the shutdowns quickly spread to other legal marijuana states,…
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…
Colorado has been the trendsetter in legal recreational marijuana for more than two years, and as debates about the plant’s economic and social effects rage around the country, people frequently look to this state’s capital for data that supports their arguments. But until recently, Denver hasn’t been able to provide…
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…
The forecast for Denver’s marijuana industry is hazier than usual this winter as the City and County of Denver considers extending a moratorium on pot businesses for another two years, leaving entrepreneurs and owners holding their collective breath. The original marijuana moratorium, approved before the first legal sales on January…
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…
We’ve covered some of the weirdest ways to ingest cannabis in the past, but Foria may have one-upped anything we’ve written about with its new pot-infused vaginal suppository, which is set to hit California dispensary shelves today and Colorado’s very soon. The same company that you brought pot-infused sex lube,…
There has been no shortage of scribes offering their versions of Colorado’s journey to legalizing cannabis, but few have presented it as the fascinating, epic comedy that it really is. Now Frisco bartender/author Johnny Welsh seems to have hit that target in his new book, Weedgalized in Colorado: True Tales from…
Booze and cigars are synonymous with wedding celebrations, so why not pot? That’s what the coordinators of the Cannabis Wedding Expo are asking as they prepare to show you how to legally infuse ganja into your reception this Sunday at Point Gallery. Couples, business owners and anyone else over the…
