Marijuana

In November, Denver Environmental Health issued a human-consumption ban on kratom, a plant-based substance that advocates tout as a pain reliever lacking the well-known negative effects of more powerful opioids. Now, the Libertarian Party of Colorado is formally decrying the move, and the organization’s spokesperson reveals that it’s a very personal subject for her. After all, she’s a user of kratom who believes her life would be infinitely worse if she could no longer take it.

CBD and hemp oils have been shown to help a variety of disorders among both humans and animals, including irritating skin disorders.

Colorado Springs Police Department detective M. Adam Hughes thinks residential marijuana grows will hurt Colorado’s rising real estate market.

California has allowed retail sales for three weeks. Is that good or bad for Colorado’s market?

As your anger rises because your favorite Kottonmouth Kings track didn’t make it, twist one up and listen to one of these. The nostalgia will take over before you know it.

One bill to fix the pot-tax gaffe has zero co-sponsors. The other has fifty. One bill was sponsored by Steve Lebsock. The other was not.

Several Colorado state representatives have put their names on a brief supporting the industrial hemp industry in federal appeals court.

Any physician who doesn’t know the difference between THC, CBD and hemp-seed oil isn’t worth talking to about medical marijuana.

Fort Collins-based New West Genetics received certification for its ELITE hemp genetics from the Association of Official Seed Certifying Agencies and Colorado Department of Agriculture.

Cactus Breath typically sticks to the West Coast and doesn’t stray much, but at least one Denver pot shop carries it.

Most of the coverage on the Sweet Leaf investigation has focused on those arrested and the dispensary chain itself. But what about Sweet Leaf’s medical marijuana patients?

A bill in the Colorado Senate calls for a tracking agent to be “applied” to marijuana and hemp plants, which could mean spraying, rubbing,  spreading and many other things.

Strains like Blue Dream will always be popular in dispensaries because of their high yields and toughness against fungus and temperature fluctuation.

The list of licensed recreational pot shops in Colorado was fewer than four pages long when sales began on January 1, 2014, according to the Marijuana Enforcement Division. Today, it’s nearly thirteen pages.

Attorney Rob Corry has now filed a second complaint in regard to the Denver 420 Rally. He’d previously sued the City and County of Denver on behalf of rally co-founder Miguel Lopez, who lost his priority event status and was banned from putting on the event during the next three years for allegedly violating his permit by leaving Civic Center Park trashed. Now, he wants injunctive relief on behalf of another client, Michael Ortiz, who was initially granted a permit for April 20 only to have his application denied by Allegra “Happy” Haynes, Denver’s Parks and Rec director, and given instead to Euflora, a dispensary chain with very different plans for the gathering.

While the USPS has been catching more packages with pot, as much as 90 percent of the marijuana that’s mailed is not detected.

A dispensary analytics firm says tourism plays a major role in the shift in sales numbers, with pot revenue usually peaking in the summer months.

The U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado told members of the state’s congressional delegation that the new memo from Sessions would not change the way that his office approaches cannabis prosecutions in Colorado, according to a spokeswoman for Congresswoman Diana DeGette.

Here are ten strains that’ll help you deal with the mockery these fuck boys in Washington, D.C., have been making of our country.

Corry’s clients and nine other current and former Sweet Leaf employees were arrested during raids at company locations across the Denver metro area by Denver Police Department officers on December 14.

Pot, beer and no driving? We’re game.

In “Mailing Marijuana Out of Colorado: How Likely Are You to Get Caught?,” published circa November 2015, the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area’s Tom Gorman estimated that 90 percent of illegally shipped cannabis packages weren’t being found by postal inspectors. More than two years later, figures from a pair of recent analyses maintain that hundreds more pot-packed parcels are being intercepted than in previous years even as our Ask a Stoner columnist suggests that successfully mailing weed out of state is still a snap if proper precautions are taken.