Marijuana

The NoCo Hemp Expo is coming back to Loveland on April 6 and 7, and it’s organizer expects it to be bigger than ever.

Most extractions used to make infused products, such as cannabutter and butane hash oil, extract terpenes as well as such cannabinoids as CBD and THC, so the majority of them smell like pot from the moment they’re made to the moment you poop ’em out.

“You know what ladies? We need to invest. We need investment money that comes from women.”

Readers give a failing grade to a recent report card that says legal cannabis has hurt Colorado.

Of the 93,095 active patients on the Colorado Medical Marijuana Registry, 86,317 listed severe pain as a qualifying condition.

Medical marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access just released its annual report card on all states with some medical marijuana access.

Now that more places are considering legalizing cannabis, some of Colorado’s early pot players are moving on to new jobs.

So many potential jurors were challenged that the city’s case against the church ended in a mistrial on February 28.

Draw the blinds, lower the lights and clean out that bong, because we’re getting baked tonight.

Guaranteed to blow your mind — anytime.

After years of making little ground in Colorado, social cannabis consumption is finally starting to see some progression.

If passed, the proposal would create the first statewide licensing program for cannabis consumption.

Last year, then-eleven-year-old Colorado resident and medical marijuana patient Alexis Bortell joined other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against pot-hating Attorney General Jeff Sessions over federal scheduling of cannabis. Yesterday, February 26, a judge with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York dismissed the suit, but Bortell, now twelve, wasn’t distressed. Shortly after the news went public, a post appeared on her Facebook page reading, “We were ready. Smile. We know #SCOTUS [Supreme Court of the United States] is where we are probably going.”

If it’s pure hash oil and there’s no vaping liquid in there, then you can dab or eat that oil all you want. But don’t give up just yet.

In an interview with Westword, Borman talks about “puffragettes,” today’s challenges in the industry and much more.

The cannabis calendar is filling as February moves to March 2018.

After Denver Environmental Health prohibited sales of kratom for human consumption in the wake of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration alert late last year, advocates for the plant-based pain reliever spoke out, with many saying the product had helped them kick addictions to powerful opioids, including heroin. These testimonials are echoed by Roxanne Gullikson, facility director for Portland, Maine’s Greener Pastures Holisticare, a residential treatment center opening next month that will use kratom in combination with marijuana as part of a formal and comprehensive addiction treatment regimen. To her, Denver’s ban is both unjustified and potentially damaging.

The president and general counsel for Weedmaps predicts that 2018 will be a big year for the cannabis industry.

Two conservative organizations are joining forces to burst Colorado’s pot bubble while warning other states of what they believe has been a big mistake.

The dispensary chain’s Thornton location could be open within the next couple months, according to Thornton city officials.

Dwayne Benjamin will open Tetra 9 on February 22, 2018.