Colorado

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Denver
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Hospital makes history: Cannabis oil helps baby's seizures

Two-month-old Amylea Nunez made history at a Colorado hospital last week when she became the first patient there to receive cannabis oil as part of her treatment.

(Yes, cannabis — as in marijuana, pot or hemp.)

You see, little Amylea has spent the majority of her life inside a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU.) This is because of seizures that began a day after she was brought home from her December delivery in New Mexico. While doctors at Children’s Hospital in Aurora have been attempting to treat her rare form of epilepsy, the medications are causing damage to her liver.

Sun
14
Feb

A strip club and a Smokin Gun: New Colorado pot shop stirring up intrigue

 

GLENDALE — Colorado’s newest pot shop has some wondering whether strippers and weed are too closely aligned on a busy highway just east of downtown Denver.

The Smokin Gun Apothecary opened on a site formerly occupied by the Denver area’s best known strip club, Shotgun Willie’s. The strip club hasn’t gone away — it’s moved just across the parking lot, testing ethical and potentially legal issues about the state’s growing legal recreational pot industry.

Beyond banning the sale of pot and alcohol in the same shop, Colorado has no regulation regarding marijuana and other adult businesses. Zoning rules require shops to be away from schools or anywhere children congregate.

Sun
14
Feb

Washington’s Zoots brand expands to Colorado

Db3, a popular cannabis edibles manufacturer in Washington state, is expanding its Zoots brand to Colorado.

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Through a partnership with Bronner Corp., based in Denver, Db3 will sell its line of ZootRocks, ZootBlasts, ZootBites and Zootdrops – along with a new medical High Strength line in the Rocky Mountain state.

Fri
12
Feb

Colorado Will Soon Be Home to Certified Organic Cannabis

How one hemp farm in Longmont, Colorado earned the USDA's blessing.
Fri
12
Feb

Canopy Boulder delays inaugural San Francisco class after too few companies apply

Spring class in Boulder is 'strongest yet,' founder says

Boulder-based cannabis accelerator Canopy Boulder is delaying the start of its inaugural San Francisco class after too few businesses applied.

Canopy co-founder Patrick Rea said there were not enough applicants to support classes in both Boulder and San Francisco for the spring program, which starts Feb. 29, now only in Boulder.

Classes are typically made up of 10 early-stage ancillary service companies.

Fri
12
Feb

Colorado's newest marijuana shop tied to strip club

GLENDALE, Colorado (AP) — Colorado's newest marijuana shop has some wondering whether strippers and weed are too closely aligned.

The Smokin Gun Apothecary is opening next to the Denver area's best-known strip club, Shotgun Willie's, with just a parking lot between them. Both businesses have the same owner, who envisions pot shoppers getting discounted drinks at the strip club.

The development raises ethical and potentially legal issues about the state's growing legal recreational pot industry, one of the first in the United States.

Fri
12
Feb

Denver judge tosses consumer lawsuit filed over pesticides on pot

 

Denver judge says consumers who sued weren't actually harmed from smoking pot they say was treated with pesticides

 

A Denver judge Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against the state’s largest marijuana grower over its alleged use of pesticides saying the consumers behind the case were not actually harmed.

Denver District Judge J. Eric Eliff said the consumers — one of them a medical-card holder with a brain tumor — couldn’t sue because they bought the pot and used it without repercussion.

Fri
12
Feb

Report: Marijuana-related DUI citations in Colorado dropped slightly in 2015

Medical marijuana plants grow at Rocky Mountain Miracles Friday, April 4, 2014. According to state and federal authorities, Colorado grows the most potent marijuana in the country, and possibly the world.

In an effort to provide some context to the debate about whether roads are more dangerous since the legalization of marijuana, Colorado State Patrol said in a report Thursday that the number of citations issued for impaired driving with the drug fell slightly since the agency started tracking the numbers two years ago.

In 2015, troopers handed out 4,546 citations for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, with 347 of them - or 7.6 percent - involving only marijuana. The latter number equates to seven tickets fewer than in 2014.

Fri
12
Feb

Generation Health recalls K-Puff, other vape oils for pesticide concerns

 

Denver marijuana shop Generation Health has voluntarily recalled more than 2,600 vape pens and concentrates over the presence of potentially dangerous pesticides, according to the city of Denver’s Department of Environmental Health.

The recall is the city’s 20th pesticide-based marijuana recall since Sept. 8, when it announced its first recall involving cannabis extracts manufactured by Mahatma Concentrates.

All 2,665 of the newly recalled vape pens and oils are labeled as Generation Health, according to the city. The contaminated plants were grown by Generation Health’s cultivation, which does business as Patient’s Plus, and the recalled products were manufactured by the shop’s infusions company CC Foods.

Thu
11
Feb

Colorado's Legal Marijuana Industry Is Worth $1 Billion

Legal pot sales jumped by more than 42% in Colorado last year, pushing the Centennial State’s revenue from marijuana taxes and fees to a new high.

Colorado saw $996.2 million in legal sales of medical and recreational pot in 2015, according to the Denver Post‘s calculations of tax data reported this week (and throughout 2015) by the state’s Department of Revenue. In 2014, the state’s legal pot vendors sold roughly $699 million of the drug.

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