Edibles sales are exploding. Legal cannabis sales hit $5.4 billion in 2015 according to ArcView Market Research, and dispensary owners say edibles sales might make up as much as half of that. In Colorado alone, the state's Department of Revenue said edibles sales jumped from more than 3.3 million infused edible units (sold from Jan-Sept of 2014) to more than 5.6 million over the same timeframe in 2015. A big chunk of those sales came from incredibles. Yes, their brand is spelled in all lowercase letters (thanks, Pixar).

Legal marijuana is giving Colorado a stinky conundrum. Visitors can buy the drug, but they can't use it in public. Or in a rental car. Or in most hotel rooms.

The result is something marijuana advocates and opponents feared — people toking up on sidewalks, in city parks and in alleys behind bars and restaurants — despite laws against doing so. And they're getting dinged with public marijuana consumption tickets.

From the capital city of Denver to mountain resorts like Aspen and Breckenridge, police wrote nearly 800 citations in for the new crime of public consumption in 2014, the first year recreational sales began.

Even where not mandated, a food safety plan will help you protect your company, your customers, and yourself from food safety liability.

A fully budded marijuana plant ready for trimming is seen at the Botanacare marijuana store ahead of their grand opening on New Year's day in Northglenn, Colorado December 31, 2013. Reuters/Rick Wilking/File Photo

Marijuana consumption by Colorado high school students has dipped slightly since the state first permitted recreational cannabis use by adults, a new survey showed on Monday, contrary to concerns that legalization would increase pot use by teens.

The biannual poll by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment also showed the percentage of high school students indulging in marijuana in Colorado was smaller than the national average among teens.

If you’ve ever dreamt of saying the words, ‘I just applied for Willie Nelson’s weed company,’ your dreams are about to become a reality. Willie Nelson is hiring new employees for Willie’s Reserve, his “premium cannabis lifestyle brand” that features his own special, hand-picked brand of pot. The official website says the purpose of the company is paying “tribute to a tradition of sharing, caring and toking.”

The company isn’t just a start-up — it’s a growing empire. Willie’s Reserve is even scoring big investments from major companies, like New York-based private equity firm, Tuatara Capital. 

Devin Butts walked the tiled halls of the Pueblo Mall early one Friday morning in April, amazed at what he saw. The mall, the main shopping center for the city of Pueblo in southern Colorado, was larger than anything the 25-year-old was used to while living on the streets of quiet prairie towns in north central Texas. He wandered through T-shirt stores and schlocky gift shops, past American flag-adorned beer bongs and marijuana-emblazoned “Rocky Mountain High” shirts, not noticing how employees warily eyed his baggy jeans and the tattoos peeking out from the sleeves and collar of his Bob Marley T-shirt. Or maybe he’d learned from experience to ignore the looks.

Colorado pot skeptics have been cleared to start work on the most sweeping effort yet to attack legalization of the drug.

A ballot measure cleared for petitioning Thursday by the Colorado Supreme Court would set new potency and packaging limits on recreational marijuana.

Under the proposal, packaging would have to include warnings that marijuana carries a risk of “permanent loss of brain abilities.” The measure also includes a new potency limit, meaning that popular forms of marijuana such as vape pens and some edibles would be illegal.

Supporters of the measure say that most marijuana sold today is too strong and that current warning labels are inadequate.

New Jersey could raise at least $300 million a year by regulating and taxing legal pot, according to a recent report by New Jersey Policy Perspective and New Jersey United for Marijuana Reform.

Sen. Nicholas Scutari is an enthusiastic proponent of the full legalization of recreational marijuana in New Jersey, even more so after a recent fact-finding tour of Colorado, where pot has already been legal for more than two years.

All jokes aside about what Scutari was doing out in Colorado — he says he did not partake — the senator was so inspired by the trip that he says he now plans to restructure an earlier legalization proposal in hopes of sparking more Statehouse interest.

gro.io Launches World’s First Smart and Connected Home Hydroponics Platform

Today, after three years in development, gro.io launched the world’s first app- controlled, intelligent hydroponic system.

gro.io’s automated growing platform combines a powerful computer with sensors, valves and pumps, making it easy for everyone to grow hydroponically.

“While both attitudes and laws around marijuana are changing rapidly, most people still view growing their own as a difficult and time-consuming process,” said gro.io Founder Doug Slemmer. “We’re going to change this. Our smart, fully integrated hydroponic system minimizes the time, complexity and knowledge required to grow just about anything.”

For instance, Good to Know's latest effort sketches out the risks of cannabis use by pregnant and breastfeeding women.

But the CDPHE-blessed item that recently caught our eye appears under the umbrella category "Marijuana 101" — specifically, the slang terms for marijuana that parents should know before talking with their kids.