The Colorado Board of Health is considering adding post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of ailments eligible for treatment with medical marijuana.

Steven Seth McBride speaks during a hearing regarding medical marijuana before the Colorado Board of Health on Wednesday.

After listening to over twenty veterans, victims of abuse and family members of those afflicted with the disorder – all of whom favored PTSD being added to the list – the board voted 6 to 2 against adding PTSD to the list of accepted debilitating conditions.

Boulder marijuana company says it has a new breakthrough for medical marijuana patients.

× Marijuana time-release pill gives med patients ‘cannabis alternative’

Boulder marijuana company says it has a new breakthrough for medical marijuana patients.

BOULDER, Colo. — A Boulder marijuana company has produced a breakthrough marijuana capsule that looks and acts more like traditional pharmaceuticals.

The company, Wana Brands, has produced capsules called Wana Caps, that it says are an alternative to smoking or edible marijuana.

Denver is scheduled to air its first marijuana commercial on Monday, July 20, and the nation’s budding pot industry couldn’t be happier, despite recent high-profile drug busts.

With recreational marijuana use legalized in four states and the District of Columbia, and ten other states considering it, the newly minted industry is slowly being accepted by the general public.

In Order to Better Define the Therapeutic Mechanism of Action Using Biochemical, Cell, and Genetic Approaches

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO--(Marketwired - Jul 17, 2015) -  Cannabis Science, Inc. (OTC PINK: CBIS), and a key member of its scientific advisory board, Harold C. Smith, Ph.D., Professor in Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Oncology and the Center for RNA Biology at the University of Rochester, School of Dentistry and Medicine, have prepared the blueprint for establishing basic science exploration and explanation for medicinal benefits associated with cannabinoid products. The goal will be evaluate, through scientific proven methods, cellular responses to cannabinoids that can be correlated and eventually directly ascribed as the 'drug-targets'.

For two months one man posted Craigslist advertisements seeking “high net worth investors to strategically partner with one of the largest MMJ chains in Colorado.”

A new study from the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Social Work identified an interesting trend in marijuana usage and disapproval of the drug among young adults.

DENVER — A Denver woman has been acquitted of driving stoned, even though she tested nearly four times above the state’s legal limit for marijuana.

Melanie Brinegar’s blood came back at 19 nanograms, the state’s legal limit is 5 nanograms. “5 nanograms is not logical, it`s not fair to medical patients,” said Brinegar.

The 29-year-old was pulled over in June of 2014 for an expired license plate tag. “He (police officer) smelled marijuana, I told him I`m a medical marijuana patient,” said Brinegar.

In fact, Brinegar moved to Colorado two years ago from Indiana so that she could legally access medical marijuana.

“I’m constantly in pain if I don’t use cannabis,” said Brinegar.

A Boulder company that manufactures cannabis-infused edibles has voluntarily initiated a state-wide recall on one of its products because of “a lack of temperature control during the manufacturing and distribution processes,” according to Denver’s Department of Environmental Health.

No illnesses have been attributed to the recall, the city confirmed.

The marijuana company, the Growing Kitchen, is recalling a breath spray product known as MaryMint Tincture after a Denver health inspector saw the product on the shelf of one of the city’s marijuana stores. The Growing Kitchen is asking stores and customers to destroy any remaining products, a number the edibles company estimates at around 60 packages.

The first televised advertisement in Denver for legal marijuana is scheduled to air on local ABC affiliate KMGH, the Cannabist reported Wednesday. The advertisement for Neos, a company that extracts cannabis oil and sells it in loaded vaporizer pens, is slated to run July 20 at 10:35 p.m., prior to "Jimmy Kimmel Live." The 15-second ad was expected to be the first of several marijuana-related ads to run on KMGH, and it would likely be the first ever advertisement for pot on TV.

PUEBLO COUNTY - As Colorado's marijuana industry grows at an incredible rate, so is the use of electricity to power the increasing number of grow facilities.  All this, as state deadlines for higher renewable energy requirements draw near, in just a few years. And Pueblo County is home to dozens of these grow operations, with no sign of business slowing down.

"Their electricity usage characteristically tends to be high density in nature," said Bret Jones, Black Hills Energy Sr. Program Manager, External Affairs.

A lot of lights, air conditioning and de-humidifiers are staples of an indoor marijuana grow. And in the past year and a half, Jones has seen the number of such facilities grow in the Pueblo County region.