Published: Feb 8, 2018, 12:20 pm • Updated: Feb 8, 2018, 1:18 pm By The Associated Press DENVER — Prosecutors say a Colorado man has been sentenced to one year and a day in federal prison after investigators found 123 marijuana plants at his home. According to a statement issued Thursday by U.S. Attorney Bob […]
Published: Dec 15, 2017, 3:42 pm • Updated: Dec 18, 2017, 6:35 am By Alicia Wallace and Alex Pasquariello, The Cannabist Staff The 13 people arrested Thursday in a yearlong investigation into suspected illegal marijuana sales at Sweet Leaf Marijuana Centers were budtenders, The Cannabist’s preliminary review of arrest affidavits released Friday found. The criminal […]
Published: Sep 29, 2017, 8:07 am • Updated: Sep 29, 2017, 9:30 am By The Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — In about three months, recreational marijuana sales will kick off in California, yet no one knows exactly how the pot economy will work. It could take until late November for the state to issue […]
Published: Oct 13, 2017, 5:00 pm • Updated: Oct 13, 2017, 7:11 pm By The Cannabist Staff Featured guest: Stacey Mulvey, founder of Marijuasana yoga classes. LOTS TO TALK ABOUT • While Denver is getting its first-in-the-nation program implemented to allow social use of cannabis at businesses, some supporters of voter-approved Initiative 300 are not […]
Published: Sep 18, 2017, 2:12 pm • Updated: Sep 18, 2017, 2:12 pm By Melinda Deslatte, The Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana State University has completed its contract with the company that will grow medical marijuana for the school and said Monday the drug is expected to reach patients by the middle of […]
Published: Jan 29, 2018, 12:00 pm • Updated: Jan 29, 2018, 12:00 pm By Nick Miroff, The Washington Post The use of illegal narcotics in the United States has varied over the years, but by many accounts – including the president’s – the nation has never been so high on drugs. Seizures of methamphetamine and […]
Published: Feb 5, 2018, 5:57 pm • Updated: Feb 5, 2018, 6:07 pm By Bruce Kennedy and Alex Pasquariello, The Cannabist Staff It’s been a month since U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Cole Memo, Obama-era Department of Justice guidance on enforcement of federal law in states that legalized marijuana in some form. Sessions’ […]
Published: Mar 8, 2017, 4:18 pm • Updated: Mar 8, 2017, 5:05 pm By Megan Schrader, The Denver Post They call themselves refugees, and Colorado — with its permissive rules for growing marijuana in homes and world-renowned industrial strains of low-THC, high-CBD oils — is their haven. For hours Monday, some of Colorado’s sickest medical […]
Published: Jan 24, 2018, 4:40 pm • Updated: Jan 24, 2018, 4:40 pm By Becky Bohrer, The Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska — A state laboratory is auditing two marijuana testing facilities in Alaska amid concerns with discrepancies in potency-testing results between the sites. Erika McConnell, director of the Alcohol and Marijuana Control Office, told the […]
Shareholders of a penny stock Minneapolis oil and gas company are now shareholders of a penny stock CBD cosmetics business. A Minnesota oil and gas firm, which in a former life was a producer of snow skates in Colorado, will once again overhaul its corporate structure — this time to become a producer of personal […]