Residents of a small farming community in eastern Colorado have been warned to avoid drinking the town’s water after THC, the psychoactive agent in marijuana, was found in one of its feeder wells, authorities said on Thursday.

A public works employee in Hugo, a town of about 800 people 90 miles southeast of Denver, detected the chemical and health officials believe it is “marijuana THC-related,” the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook posting.

“At this time, investigators are assessing the situation with state and federal authorities,” the sheriff’s office said. “Bathroom usage is still safe, but until more information is known to us, out of an abundance of caution, avoid drinking Town of Hugo water.”

State Board of Medicine says doctors recommended large plant counts.

In the largest disciplinary action taken against medical marijuana doctors to date in Colorado, the state Medical Board on Tuesday suspended the licenses of four doctors for allegedly recommending excessive plant counts to more than 1,500 patients.

All of the recommendations involved approvals for patients to grow or possess at least 75 plants. The standard plant count for medical marijuana patients is six plants, and state health officials have long threatened to crack down on doctors who they believe recommend higher amounts without sufficient justification.

MERRY JANE presents "Trailblazing Cannabis" highlighting women thriving in the legal marijuana industry.

To foster growth and inclusion in the cannabis industry, MERRY JANE teamed up with Wonder Women Tech to present a panel featuring five women pioneering careers in the legal cannabis space.

The conversation, moderated by MERRY JANE's News Editor Sasha Horne, was held as part of the Wonder Women Tech Conference.

(Photo: Terrell Young/MERRY JANE)

When legal pot shops first opened up in America, there wasn’t a ton of thought given to retail design and aesthetics. Understandably so: Compared to the old pot-buying experience—stealthily purchasing a dime bag on the street corner or in the basement of your friendly neighborhood drug dealer—any store could look fancy and inviting.

I’m in Canada, and I’m having a conversation about weed. So far, everything’s tracking. But this isn’t just a casual convo — HelloMD is a startup focused on health, community and access to information, and they’re based in the U.S. (with people in SF and Colorado). And while the core business began as a way to use telemedicine to connect doctors with patients for medicinal marijuana prescriptions, HelloMD founder Pamela Hadfield tells me it’s since become something more.

Sales of legal marijuana in Colorado are more potent than ever.

According to the Colorado Department of Revenue as of May 2016 revenue from recreational and medicinal marijuana sales totaled $486 million.

In April, sales hit an all-time high of $117 million but lost a little buzz, settling back down to $98.6 million May.

There were $588 million in recreational sales last year. Five months into 2016, $308 million has been spent on non-medicinal marijuana.

In 2015, a record 71.3 million tourists visited the state, although only 8% reported visiting a dispensary, according to Colorado tourism surveys from Strategic Marketing and Research Insight.

As if Willy Wonka wasn’t already trippy.

Local cannabis chocolatier BlueKudu is pouring $1.5 million into a 20,000-square-foot production facility that will include a big new kitchen and a greenhouse for growing marijuana in house.

BlueKudu founder and owner Andrew Schrot, 34, started making chocolate edibles out of a commercial kitchen in Five Points in 2012. Last summer he purchased a warehouse at 4805 Kingston St. in northeast Denver for $975,000, according to property records. The company hopes to move in by fall.

A different kind of retreat set to take place in Colorado's Rocky Mountains this fall will meld the relaxing effect of yoga with another well-known stress relief provider – marijuana.

The 420 Yoga Retreat set to take place in Colorado's Rocky Mountains this fall will not be your typical meditative getaway. The retreat will invite its participants to combine the relaxing effect of yoga with another well-known stress relief provider - the intake of cannabis.

The event is scheduled for the weekend of Sept. 30 to Oct. 2 at the Aspen Canyon Ranch - which made the news early in March for opening as "America's first cannabis resort." Guests can smoke marijuana publicly at the mountain ranch, up in the Rockies about 1.5 hours away from downtown Denver, CO.

When young entrepreneur Steven Helfer put together a Facebook page about “dabbing” (smoking marijuana concentrate) featuring funny pictures, videos of people smoking and other pot-related content, he didn’t expect to get 110,000 “Likes.” And he didn’t expect to use it as a marketing platform to help launch a multi-million dollar business.

This may not be the city that cannabis built, but Colorado’s most famous cash crop could soon be the driving force behind construction of a $7 million, 40,000-square-foot civic center in this tiny community wedged between Lakewood and Denver.

Edgewater is exploring using sales tax revenue from marijuana sales to cover more than half the cost — $4 million — of building a facility that will house a new city hall, police station, fitness center and library.

It’s a project that likely wouldn’t move forward — at least not for years — absent the tax remittances made by the city’s half-dozen pot shops. The city expects to collect north of $1.2 million in sales tax revenues from pot in 2016.