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What a beautiful afternoon. My name is Bud and I just moved to Colorado a few months back. I grow indoors legally and love my rootsorganics in soil. My favorite strains are GDP, stardawg, OGs and all things chemmy. I am eager to get some locally sourced seeds in Colorado to start expanding my...

United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions has been squatting over state-legalized cannabis industries across the country, pinching out a grumpy loaf of reefer madness every so often. Reported to have said that he thought members of the Ku Klux Klan "were okay until I found out they smoked...

Teen drug use has decreased in Colorado since marijuana was legalized for recreational use in 2014, according to a recently published national survey. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health reports that a little over 9 percent of Colorado teens between the ages of 12 and 17 used marijuana on...

Hemp, marijuana's non-psychoactive counterpart, can be turned into a large variety of products. And in 2016, Colorado farmers produced half of the hemp grown in the United States. Even after more states started growing the crop in 2017, Colorado still planted over three times more of it than any...

It's been a little more than five years since Colorado's voters approved Constitutional Amendment 64, which legalized recreational marijuana in the state. Sales commenced four years ago this January. Although the amendment passed by a comfortable 10-point margin, the debate in Colorado has...

At the two malls in town you can buy key chains and Christmas ornaments shaped like marijuana leaves. Along a downtown shopping corridor, paintings of cannabis plants grace storefront windows. Even Kmart stocks its shelves with T-shirts and mugs decorated with the signature green leaf and...

A new federal study shows that marijuana use among teens in Colorado has fallen below levels seen prior to the implementation of Amendment 64, the measure that legalized limited recreational cannabis sales in the state. Given the report's origins, attorney and activist Brian Vicente, who...

Few industries are growing as quickly and consistently as legal marijuana, which is a big reason investors haven't been able to get enough of marijuana stocks in recent years. According to investment firm Cowen & Co., the legal U.S. cannabis market is expected to reach $50 billion in annual...

Monday was the five-year anniversary of Colorado voters passing Amendment 64, which legalized recreational marijuana in the state. Since then, Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Nevada have all implemented their own recreational laws, and California, Maine and Massachusetts are in the process of...

November 4th marks five years since Colorado and Washington were the first states in the nation to legalize marijuana. Amendment 64 passed in Colorado in November 2012, legalizing marijuana for adults over the age of 21. Gov. John Hickenlooper formalized it as part of the state constitution...

If there existed a lucrative industry, with proven success, that helps people get better and could save money for the NHS, shouldn't we be talking about it? After attending a cannabis conference in Denver, Colorado, it struck me that here was a real solution to some of the difficulties our...

As one of the states pioneering the recreational cannabis movement, there is now one more reason (including the Rocky Mountains) to head to the so-called Mile High City in Colorado. Recreational marijuana was legalized in 2014, but pot tourism has only just started to take-off as a...

Dispensaries might get all the attention, but hemp farmers are getting the acreage — 23,343 acres to be exact, according to a new study by Vote Hemp, an organization dedicated to advancing the industrial hemp industry. And which state is leading the pack? Colorado, by far. Vote Hemp just...

Hemp: It's a green, leafy plant that, with the exception of its rocky past, would seem to have very little in common with coal, Northwest Colorado's largest commodity. "Hemp Coal" is a registered trademark of the AXIM Biotechnologies company, "a business involved in the research and...

So far, all the states that have legalized marijuana have done so through grassroots petitions and ballot initiatives meant to bypass risk-averse lawmakers in state houses. California, Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, Alaska, Oregon, and the District of Columbia have all followed Colorado and...

By the time the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, ensuring women the right to vote, Colorado women had already been voting for over 25 years. Colorado voters were the first to grant women suffrage (Wyoming was the first territory, but by a legislative act). Colorado...

Of all the solutions that have been proposed for stopping the opioid epidemic, no health officials have suggested simply replacing opioids with another drug. But a new study indicates that very phenomenon may be decreasing painkiller overdoses in Colorado. Legalizing marijuana, it turns out...

Opioid-related deaths fell by more than 6 percent in Colorado in the two years after the state started selling recreational marijuana, according to new research published in November's edition of the American Journal of Public Health. The researchers who conducted the study found the...

Marijuana legalization in Colorado led to a "reversal" of opiate overdose deaths in that state, according to new research published in the American Journal of Public Health. "After Colorado's legalization of recreational cannabis sale and use, opioid-related deaths decreased more than 6% in...

Local law enforcement and community leaders gathered in Grand Traverse County on Tuesday as a statewide petition drive tries to get recreational marijuana legalization on the November 2018 ballot. The Traverse Narcotics Team brought in a speaker from Colorado, where it's already legal...