Colorado Companies Dominate Cannabis Business Awards

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.

Five Stoner Stocking Stuffers for Loved Ones

Since we’re in Colorado, why not include something infused with cannabis in your loved one’s stocking this year? There’s plenty of pot goodies and accessories available at dispensaries and online for both regular and occasional users.

Why Colorado Tokers Love Berry White

In the weed world, Berry White (the strain, not the legendary baritone) has been given the Puff Daddy treatment, with Blue Widow, Blue Venom and White Berry serving as alter-egos.

Pot Profiling by License Plate Still Happening in Kansas, Victim Says

Since shortly after the 2012 passage of Amendment 64, which permitted limited recreational marijuana sales in Colorado, we’ve reported about alleged pot profiling. Over the years, multiple drivers have said they were pulled over for little or no reason while driving a car with Colorado license plates by state troopers in bordering states on the lookout for cannabis, with Kansas among the most frequently mentioned problem jurisdictions. Now, just over a year since a federal court ordered that pot profiling in Kansas end, a Denver-area resident tells us she’s recently been stopped three times in the state by law enforcers who apparently became interested in her the second she saw that her plate represented a legal-pot state.

Inside the War on Kratom in Denver and Beyond

Denver Environmental Health’s recently announced prohibition on the sale of kratom for human consumption is making news and stirring controversy from coast to coast. Among those concerned is David Kroll, a onetime cancer researcher and Colorado pharmacologist now working in North Carolina as a freelance health journalist for Forbes, among other outlets. Kroll is also a nationally recognized expert on kratom, as well as the historical roots of the governmental and financial forces currently lined up against it, and in his view, “banning it is going to hurt more people than it’s going to save. That’s my scientific prediction.”

Why Colorado Tokers Love Bubba Fett

Born in Boulder’s Green Dream Cannabis cultivation, Bubba Fett is an indica-dominant hybrid with Pre-’98 Bubba Kush and Stardawg genetics. Not to be confused with Boba Fett or Bubba Fett OG, two indica-dominant hybrids with completely different lineages, Bubba Fett is currently a Colorado-only strain.

If Kratom Sales Are Banned, Advocate Says, Users May Go Back to Heroin

On November 20, Denver Environmental Health banned kratom for human consumption in the wake of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration alert issued a week or so earlier. This decision set off a firestorm of criticism from kratom advocates, who see this action as demonizing a plant-based substance that relieves pain without the well-known negative effects of more powerful opioids. Seconding these views is Nicholas Moodley, who started his own Denver-based kratom business, Kratom Cafe USA, after using the product to kick an opioid habit that seemed on the verge of overwhelming him.