DENVER, CO / January 21, 2015 / Canna Security America (CSA) (OTC: CSAX), the leading comprehensive security solutions provider catering to businesses in the licensed cannabis industry, is pleased to announce that it has hired Mr. Tom Siciliano as its chief operating officer.

The forty-foot-high Willie Nelson statue has yet to appear on the edge of Colorado Boulevard — but that could only be a matter of time.

Because otherwise, the construction crew is putting the finishing touches on what promises to soon become one of metro Denver’s top tourist attractions: The Smokin’ Gun.

Yes, it’s a recreational marijuana store — but not just any recreational marijuana store.

For starters, this store is in Glendale, which means it can stay open until midnight — unlike Denver pot shops just across the street, which must close at 7 p.m.

Here's the latest research on pot and drinking, pot and opiate dependency, pot and IQ, pot and migraines, and pot and obesity.

Scientific discoveries are published almost daily rebuking  the federal government’s contention that cannabis is a highly dangerous substance lacking therapeutic efficacy. But most of these findings are relegated to obscure, peer-reviewed journals and, therefore, often go unnoticed by the major media and the general public. Here are five new cannabis-centric studies that warrant mainstream attention.

Consumers Seldom Combine Marijuana With Alcohol

Colorado cannabis company continues rapid growth

DENVER, January 22, 2016 — LivWell Enlightened Health, Colorado’s leading cannabis retailer, has acquired two iVita Wellness locations and one iVita cannabis cultivation facility in Denver. The acquisition brings the company’s current number of Colorado locations to thirteen, with more planned for 2016. Both locations – LivWell on Pearl and LivWell on Franklin – are operating as LivWell Enlightened Health locations beginning today.  

Colorado regularly hosts big marijuana-themed events, but it remains illegal to sell pot in any location other than a licensed store.

One state lawmaker hopes to change that by creating a new kind of license to allow pot to be lawfully sold (and possibly consumed) on-site at special events only open to people over the age of 21.

“Amendment 64 asked us to regulate marijuana like alcohol,” said bill sponsor Rep. Dominick Moreno (D-Commerce City.) “The bill creates the exact same special use permit process that we already have for alcohol.”

Prohibition propagandists like the Joker to my Batman, Kevin Sabet of Project SAMUEL (Smart Approaches to Marijuana Use… Except Legalization), are desperately crying out to the media for attention to this report from the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that explains how Colorado youth aged 12-17 now exhibit the highest rate of monthly teen marijuana use, now at 12.56%.

That’s one-in-eight teenagers toking at least once per month.

Massachusetts state senator Jason Lewis during his tour of a Denver-area dispensary. A video and more below.

Last month, we reported about a Colorado marijuana fact-finding mission involving officials from Indio, California.

As a part of its marijuana legalization initiative passed in 2012, I-502, Washington state is required to issue periodic reports on how its ‘experiment’ with cannabis is going.

Medical marijuana treatment cut the frequency of migraines in a month by more than half, the researchers reported.

The reduction in migraine frequency was "statistically and clinically significant," according to the researchers.

Migraine attacks can be lessened by medical marijuana, according to a new study conducted by researchers from the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.