The library’s Archives and Special Collections division started an initiative in 2015 to collect and document media coverage, oral histories, business and political materials, scholarly opinions and other content pertaining to the marijuana and industrial hemp movements in Colorado.
Some of this might seem a little remedial to those with experience, but believe it or not, a lot of people actually ask us about this stuff.
In honor of Amendment 64’s fifth anniversary, here are some our favorite, most viewed and most interesting stories about pot since it was made legal.
Making caramel is much easier than you might think, and adding marijuana to the equation doesn’t change the process much.
Dispensaries might get all the attention, but hemp farmers are getting the acreage – 23,343 acres to be exact, according to a new study. And the state growing the most? Colorado, by far.
Are commercial cannabis grows using urine to fertilize their plants? Probably not, but your neighbor might be.
Celebrities getting into Colorado’s legal cannabis game is nothing new, with Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, Wiz Khalifa and Tommy Chong all slapping their names on some form of pot product. Now, you can add Whoopi Goldberg to that list.
Not only does Frankenberry ramp the ghoulish effects up a notch as you puff a joint and watch Michael Myers get back up for the tenth time, but it also takes you back to mornings before school, eating a bowl of the strawberry-marshmallow cereal — and so does the strain’s cakey, berry flavor.
One of Colorado’s largest hash manufacturers has added another product to its lineup. O.penVape, known for its pre-filled vaporizers cartridges, has rolled out the ISH pens, a new line of distillate products geared toward novice cannabis consumers.
The best cannabis events in metro Denver for the last week of October 2017, as well as more in November.
President Donald Trump has a plan to stop the opioid epidemic, and (surprise!) it doesn’t involve cannabis, which could be a far safer alternative for dealing with pain.
We know the many benefits cannabis has in regards to physical health, but could it have the same effect on anxiety?
One of the country’s most well-known think tanks is calling out United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his repressive attitude towards cannabis, particularly medical marijuana. The Brookings Institution released an op-ed Wednesday, October 25, criticizing his “biases on the issue, a division of opinion between him and the president he serves, and a federal government effort to stand in the way of the free conduct of research” in regards to growing medical marijuana for research purposes.
Medical and recreational cannabis flower and concentrates from Little Brown House and its sister dispensary, Reefer Madness, are being voluntarily recalled after Denver Department of Environmental Health investigations determined that the products carried potentially unsafe levels of banned pesticides. DEH investigators found evidence of residual levels of myclobutanil, a chemical…
Growing and processing industrial hemp has become a big business as barriers break down in states with legalized cannabis. Now one Boulder laboratory is starting a study with a university agriculture program to learn more about desirable hemp genetics, much as that program has studied grapes for the wine industry…
A $5.5 million study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, will monitor 2,500 sets of twins aged 23 to 29 in Colorado and Minnesota over a five-year span to see how marijuana has affected them.
A reader wants to know about the difference between hemp oil and CBD oil. Our Stoner has the answer.
The owner of a Denver dispensary chain wants to be the new organizer of a 4/20 festival at Civic Center Park so bad that he’s camping outside city buildings. Pepe Breton, co-founder of Euflora, wasn’t very happy with how the last 420 Rally shaped out, so he’ll be sitting outside of…
More Americans than ever support cannabis legalization, according to a new Gallup poll.
The effects of legalized cannabis on Colorado are still heavily disputed, but Dr. Larry Wolk, the state’s top health official, says that we’ve been pretty responsible with this legal pot thing.
LSD is an indica-dominant hybrid hailing from Barney’s Farm, a world-famous strain breeder based in Amsterdam. Barney’s took Skunk #1 and Mazar I Sharif, a rare indica hybrid from Afghanistan, and created an intense, mind-bending experience similar to that of Girl Scout Cookies or other potent hybrids — but with a much more calming and relaxing effect.
As cannabis industry experts and commercialization opponents continue to warn about the big tobacco takeover of legal pot, at least we know one local operation doesn’t want any part of Philip Morris. “We don’t want to be Jim Beam; we’re Leopold,” explains Joe Patierno, general manager of Kush Concentrates.
