Published: Sep 6, 2017, 5:09 pm • Updated: Sep 7, 2017, 8:07 am By Jesse Paul, The Denver Post An Elbert County man was sentenced Tuesday to 144 years in prison for killing his former marijuana business partner and then setting a wildfire about 100 miles from the slaying to try to cover up his […]
Published: Nov 1, 2017, 6:35 pm • Updated: Nov 1, 2017, 6:35 pm By Alicia Wallace, The Cannabist Staff Colorado aims to establish a state law enforcement unit dedicated to investigating and, ideally, eradicating illegal marijuana grow operations that have cropped up throughout the state. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper’s $30.5 billion budget proposal for the […]
Published: Jan 1, 2018, 8:26 am • Updated: Jan 1, 2018, 8:26 am By Paul Elias, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Licensed businesses around California can begin legally growing and selling marijuana for recreational use Monday, and a hodgepodge of enforcement agencies will be trying to make sure they adhere to a slew of new […]
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Published: Dec 1, 2017, 4:20 pm • Updated: Dec 1, 2017, 4:32 pm By Bruce Kennedy, The Cannabist Staff The cultural revolution of the 1960s witnessed a unique marriage of marijuana and art. Experimentation with LSD, peyote and other drugs were huge influences on the psychedelic art and music of the time, but marijuana motifs […]
Published: Sep 5, 2017, 8:42 am • Updated: Sep 5, 2017, 8:42 am By The Associated Press SEATTLE — Analysis by a group of Washington state marijuana experts has found that youth use of marijuana, and cannabis-abuse treatment did not increase after the state’s legalization of marijuana for adults. The Seattle Times reported Friday that […]
Licensed marijuana “tasting rooms” could be operating in Colorado by this time next year if Gov. John Hickenlooper signs a first-of-its-kind bill that state lawmakers sent to his desk Thursday. The bill allows adults at current recreational marijuana retailers to consume small amounts through edibles or by vaping — as they might a flight of […]
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — The Peoria County sheriff is asking the public for more help combating a deadly outbreak of severe bleeding due to synthetic marijuana. Peoria County Sheriff Brian Asbell pleaded at a Tuesday news conference, “Please, please, anyone with information please contact us.” Illinois Department of Public Health statistics show Peoria County and […]
Published: Mar 6, 2017, 3:19 pm • Updated: Mar 6, 2017, 3:19 pm By The Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Two Missouri men caught driving a rental car with 55 pounds of marijuana in Wyoming last year have been sentenced to five years of probation. The Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported Monday that Dominique Davis of […]
Published: Aug 16, 2017, 3:27 pm • Updated: Aug 16, 2017, 3:27 pm By Polly Washburn, The Cannabist Staff Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ letter to Alaska’s governor took a similar tone to his letters to other legal recreational marijuana states, questioning whether the The Last Frontier state’s regulations were adequately protecting its youth and other […]