Of the many ways marijuana is marketed — smoke it, eat it, vape it — infused topicals are another option joining the many pot products offered to medical and recreational shoppers.

These cannabis-infused lotions, salves, massage oils and balms: Do they really work for relieving pain at its source?

Mary Jane’s Medicinals owner Dahlia Mertens and Denver Post marijuana editor Ricardo Baca discuss topicals on a recent episode of The Cannabist Show. Mertens’ company is based in Telluride in southwest Colorado, and the product line includes a “Heavenly Hash Bath” and infused lip balm in addition to the more standard topicals mentioned above.

Fewer crimes, more revenue as medical marijuana industry stabilizes in Colorado Springs

Data from the city of Colorado Springs, its police department and the Colorado Department of Revenue show interesting trends as the marijuana industry matures amid growing pains that have attracted national attention, including the cash-only nature of the business.

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DENVER, CO  The MaryJane Group (OTC Markets MJMJ) today formally announces the continued growth of its popular Bud+Breakfast brand with the newly leased Hotel San Ayre in Colorado Springs. Joining the company’s two Bud+Breakfast locations in the Denver area, Hotel San Ayre will offer guests seeking a cannabis-themed vacation even more opportunities for education and enjoyment.

As the number of medical marijuana shops and dispensary-related crimes in Colorado Springs has fallen over the past five years, medical pot tax revenue in El Paso County has soared.

Data from the city of Colorado Springs, its police department and the Colorado Department of Revenue show interesting trends as the marijuana industry matures amid growing pains that have attracted national attention, including the cash-only nature of the business.

In June 2010, Colorado Springs had 303 unique addresses or locations associated with medical marijuana licenses. Medical marijuana stores and growers were the targets of burglaries or attempted burglaries 42 times that year.

Now, the city has roughly half as many unique licensed locations and almost nonexistent burglaries.

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DENVER –  Beer? Wine? Or weed?

A campaign is underway to ask Denver voters about allowing marijuana consumption in bars and other places that only allow people over 21.

Activists who campaigned for recreational pot legalization in Colorado have launched a petition drive to allow what they call "limited social marijuana consumption" at bars.

The activists need about 5,000 signatures to get the question on November ballots.

It would allow bars or clubs to allow marijuana use as long as patrons bring their own weed and comply with clean-air laws. That means the pot they consume would have to be edible, or if smoked, consumed on an outside patio the way cigarette smoking is regulated now. Outdoor smoking sites would have to be shielded from public view.

DENVER — The same pro-pot advocates who brought legalized recreational marijuana to Colorado launched Thursday a ballot campaign to allow adult “marijuana bars” in Denver.

Mason Tvert and Brian Vicente, who led the successful 2012 statewide initiative campaign for Amendment 64, announced they have formed the Campaign for Limited Social Use to “allow the use — but not sale — of marijuana at commercial establishments in areas restricted to individuals 21 or older.”

The measure, which would apply only to the city of Denver, needs 4,726 valid signatures to qualify for the November 2015 ballot.

Still looking for plans for the 4th of July weekend? Never mind a bed and breakfast -- How about a “Bud and Breakfast?”

Marijuana-themed inns are sprouting all over Colorado like...well, weeds. Offering "wake and bake breakfast", "4:20 Happy Hour", and cannabis-infused massages, these lodges are just one of the many creative ways entrepreneurs in the Centennial State are capitalizing on the legal recreational marijuana market.

Other places like marijuana adult camps are more like resorts and “have everything down to even a wine and food pairing with a particular strain,” said Nick Colas, chief market strategist at Convergex, a brokerage services provider in New York.