Published: Jul 19, 2017, 5:05 pm • Updated: Jul 19, 2017, 5:53 pm By Bob Salsberg, The Associated Press BOSTON — Massachusetts lawmakers signed off Wednesday on a compromise bill that makes changes to the voter-approved law that legalized adult use of recreational marijuana and expressed confidence the revamped measure could withstand any legal challenge. […]
Published: Nov 3, 2017, 8:49 am • Updated: Nov 3, 2017, 8:49 am By The Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska — State revenue generated by Alaska’s legal marijuana industry continues to grow. The state says it collected more than $720,000 in excise taxes from cultivators in September, the most recent month for which data is available. […]
A former East High School math teacher who allegedly gave marijuana to students at a house party has been formally charged with four counts each of marijuana distribution to a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Rachel Leigh Farley (Photo provided by Denver Police Department) Rachel Leigh Farley is scheduled to appear […]
Published: Mar 9, 2018, 11:21 am • Updated: Mar 9, 2018, 11:21 am By Karen Antonacci, The Daily Camera Special districts that affect Boulder County residents can now collect marijuana tax revenues again after Gov. John Hickenlooper signed a bill that corrects an error enacted in July. Last year, the Colorado General Assembly passed Senate […]
Published: Mar 6, 2018, 1:29 pm • Updated: Mar 6, 2018, 1:29 pm By The Associated Press PINE BLUFF, Ark. — A medical marijuana firm originally from northeast Arkansas has chosen to build its cultivation plant in the Pine Bluff area. Natural State Wellness Enterprises had its choice of either Jackson or Jefferson counties because […]
Published: Oct 4, 2017, 6:59 am • Updated: Oct 4, 2017, 8:51 am By Monte Whaley, The Denver Post Two decades after Drug Abuse Resistance Education was declared dead, it and similar drug- and alcohol-prevention programs are back in Colorado classrooms. But the finger-wagging, “Just Say No” messaging that turned DARE into a policy pariah […]
Published: Feb 16, 2018, 10:27 am • Updated: Feb 16, 2018, 10:27 am By The Associated Press OTTAWA, Ontario — Canadians will have to wait until at least early August or later to legally purchase recreational marijuana. As recently as last week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government was insisting it was on track for legalization […]
Published: Nov 9, 2017, 7:50 pm • Updated: Nov 9, 2017, 7:50 pm By The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin would join a majority of other states in allowing the farming of industrial hemp under a bill sent to Gov. Scott Walker. The Wisconsin Assembly passed the bill unanimously Thursday. It cleared the Senate […]
Published: Sep 19, 2017, 8:49 am • Updated: Sep 19, 2017, 2:30 pm By The Associated Press BALTIMORE — A university’s pharmacy school has cancelled classes on growing medical marijuana. The Baltimore Sun reported Monday that the University of Maryland appears to be concerned about how the Trump Administration will enforce federal marijuana laws. Medical […]
An agricultural biotechnology company has launched a hemp grow operation in a newly renovated greenhouse space on the grounds of the historic Lafayette Florist. Lafayette-based Front Range Biosciences rented the 12,000-square-foot greenhouse — which had been used to grow flowers since the 1970s — and is growing industrial hemp clones to be sold to other […]