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The Cannabist
Denver, Colorado marijuana news, culture, resources

The Cannabist
Denver, Colorado marijuana news, culture, resources
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: Feb 27, 2017, 7:34 am • Updated: Feb 27, 2017, 12:19 pm By Tom McGhee, The Denver Post A guest on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper downplayed the possibility that the Trump administration would take aim at Colorado’s recreational marijuana industry, saying legalization’s inclusion in the state Constitution makes it…
Published: Mar 8, 2018, 9:48 am • Updated: Mar 8, 2018, 9:48 am By Allison Klein, The Washington Post Philando Castile’s death was live-streamed on Facebook by his girlfriend in the moments after Castile was shot by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop in 2016. The world came to know him for that…
Published: Jan 30, 2018, 10:30 am • Updated: Jan 30, 2018, 11:07 am By The Cannabist Staff A couple of Toronto police officers over the weekend apparently auditioned for a role in the next installment of Super Troopers. After police raided a marijuana dispensary Saturday night, the two officers who were in charge of guarding…
Published: Aug 4, 2017, 2:23 pm • Updated: Aug 4, 2017, 2:25 pm By Vincent Chandler, The Cannabist Staff Featured guest: Herban Space founder Cliff Gordon. LOTS TO TALK ABOUT • While Denver works out how to enact its first-of-its-kind voter-approved social marijuana use initiative, some spaces are finding ways to be 420-friendly in the…
Published: Nov 24, 2017, 1:56 pm • Updated: Nov 24, 2017, 6:51 pm By Paul Elias, The Associated Press COPPEROPOLIS, Calif. — The four young men had just started their marijuana harvest in rural Northern California when a dozen sheriff’s deputies swooped in with guns drawn, arrested them and spent the day chopping down 150…