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Pueblo, Colo. - The Pueblo County Board of County Commissioners has adopted a solid, balanced, $171 million functioning budget that will support the operating costs of Pueblo County for the 2017 calendar year. "It's an interesting challenge this year because we are balancing the excitement of...

The Pueblo County commissioners finalized an agreement with Colorado State University-Pueblo to use marijuana excise tax to help fund impact studies that will be conducted by the school's newly formed Institute of Cannabis Research. During a work session Oct. 31, officials with CSU-Pueblo...

Pueblo, Colo. - The city of Pueblo has decided retail marijuana shops will be allowed within city limits. On Monday, the Pueblo City Council took up the discussion of implementing voter's wishes. Council was presented plans from 2015, and in more than an hour of discussion on regulations and...

Pueblo, CO. The majority of voters in Pueblo say they want retail marijuana shops within city limits. Now city leaders have the task of setting guidelines to help get the shops set up appropriately. Ballot issue 2B asked voters to approve retail marijuana shops within city limits. The...

Marijuana advocates got a mixed bag of results on election night. Well, actually, they were mostly good except for one that could spoil the rest: Donald Trump's victory and the possibility his administration would move to put an end to the country's now well-established cannabis industry...

Pueblo could be home to what would be called The National Marijuana Museum. Following the defeat of Propositions 200 and 300 and a lengthy campaign against them and other anti-marijuana industry ballot issues, a citizen-organized group has announced plans to build The National Marijuana Museum...

Jim Parco grew up in Pueblo. He remembers when the county had a thriving steel industry, and he witnessed the devastation of losing it. Pueblo never really recovered, and it remained one of the most economically depressed counties in the state for decades. When Colorado legalized recreational...

Pueblo, Colo. — A southern Colorado community has voted to keep a burgeoning marijuana industry in a vote seen as an indication of whether communities with pot shops consider them good neighbors. Voters in the city and county of Pueblo rejected measures to close some 100 recreational...

To put it bluntly: Preliminary results indicate that voters defeated Propositions 200 and 300, keeping the commercial marijuana industry in Pueblo County alive and legal. If the large margins hold up in today's vote counting, the victory for retail marijuana supporters will put an end - at...

Regardless of the fate of Questions 200 and 300 in today's election, Colorado State University-Pueblo's fledgling Institute of Cannabis Research will be taking on important and relevant work. Remember, marijuana will remain legal in Colorado even if Pueblo voters pass one or both of the ballot...

Colorado's Steel City is now surrounded by the state's "Napa Valley of Weed." At least 22 stores, 92 grow sites and 31 manufacturing facilities are licensed in the county, Colorado Department of Revenue records show. And Pueblo County was the state's highest producer of retail marijuana plants...

Pueblo, Colo. - One southern Colorado community will decide on Tuesday whether to keep recreational marijuana shops. Pueblo County Commissioners looked at a handful of projects funded by marijuana tax money on Wednesday morning. Future projects that depend on tax money from marijuana won't...

Three marijuana ballot measures will determine if Pueblo continues as a national hotspot for pot production and sales, or whether it tells the rest of the country to avoid the headache. Only Pueblo and Pueblo County residents can make these decisions, but other Coloradans miss the grand old...

Growing Pueblo's Future continued to urge citizens Monday to vote against Proposition 200, a ballot measure that would ban the sale and production of commercial marijuana in Pueblo County. The group gathered at Angelo's Pizza for a press conference and small rally where local business owners...

Pueblo - It's one of the most heated issues on the Pueblo Ballot. Issue 200 asks voters whether or not to continue to allow retail marijuana sales in the county. Some say it's a black eye for the community, others an economic boost, but the final word on the issue is being left up to Pueblo...

A few years ago, the building at 745 Industrial Blvd. in Pueblo West was just another vacant warehouse, one of many victims of the Great Recession. "It was empty for years," said owner Rob Lucero. "No one wanted these buildings, but then a guy who wanted to start a marijuana grow came along. I...

There's little independent data to guide voters as the sparring continues over the retail marijuana industry's claim of 1,300 local jobs, and how many of them might go away if only medical marijuana sales are allowed. Local, state and federal governments say they do not know how many marijuana...

When you legalize marijuana, you not only solve a country's (in this case America's) health problems, you also boost its economy, create jobs, hike wages, weed out illegal cannabis trade, raise revenue, reduce crime rates, help the homeless, sponsor drug-addiction counseling, build schools, and...

Growing Pueblo's Future on Monday withdrew a campaign finance complaint filed last week by a group member against Citizens for a Healthy Pueblo. The complaint was filed with the Colorado Secretary of State's office last Wednesday alleging that Growing Pueblo's Future was violating state...

Pueblo was the site of plenty of potshots on October 5, when an anti-marijuana group refused to attend what was supposed to be a peaceful discussion on Proposition 200, which would ban the recreational cannabis industry in Pueblo County. Instead, Citizens for a Healthy Pueblo hosted their own...