”Could Amendment 64 be the reason that the Colorado Medical Marijuana registry saw the first decline in active patient numbers in almost a year? Like a late holiday gift from a strange uncle who only sends sensible socks, the Colorado health department posted the figures for October and November… At the end of September,...
Read more →“Now that recreational marijuana is legal in Colorado, residents are in a bit of a jam: They can’t legally buy marijuana in the state, but they can legally grow up to six plants in their homes. But what if you don’t have a green thumb? Well, that’s where THC University comes in — Colorado’s...
Read more →“According to the Daily Camera, the Hive Co-op ‘is BYOC: bring your own cannabis. There’s a 1-ounce limit, $5 cover charge and 21-years-of-age requirement with a valid ID.’ What explicitly bars, meanwhile, is public consumption, with the actual language as follows: “nothing in this section shall permit consumption that is conducted openly...
Read more →“The online college is designed for students to learn everything about growing marijuana, from different kinds of strains and how to grow them, to the potential legal pitfalls of selling cannabis… The curriculum is broken up into six classes, held twice a week for three months. The courses include reading assignments, live lectures, and an...
Read more →“: “You can’t run a business without a bank account, but the only way to get a bank account now is to lie,” she said. “And that just doesn’t make sense to me. We are not criminals. So why should we have to lie about a business that’s registered with the Secretary of...
Read more →Johnny Green at the Weed Blog
Read more →” “It was one of our opponents’ scare tactics, telling voters that horrible people were going to come to Colorado for scary marijuana,” said Mason Tvert, a director of the Yes On 64 Campaign. “Tourism was never part of the reasoning behind this campaign. We wanted to end the needless arrests of 10,000-plus Coloradans every...
Read more →KILMER: “The scenario where a state or two ends up dominating all of the U.S. market, that requires some really big assumptions,” Kilmer told BI. “I have a hard time imagining that the federal government and other states would let that happen.” Michael Kelley at Business Insider explores the possible after-effects of WA and CO’s legalization.
Read more →“Sean Nook, homebrewer and owner of Black Bottle Brewery, said he has known brewers who have dabbled with incorporating marijuana into their beers, but has never tried it. “Hops and marijuana are in the same family, but totally different. Hops are meant as a flavoring bitter agent and the marijuana buds, I have been...
Read more →“While there are no laws on the books preventing banks from doing business with marijuana firms… banks concerned about the bottom line will nonetheless sever relationships with those operations on their own, just as credit-card companies have… But for people who are part of the green rush, the most intriguing opportunity might lie… with Indian tribal...
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