Marijuana. It’s a word we’re all are familiar with, especially if you’ve been living in Colorado for the last five years.

It’s a word that can stir up emotions immediately, regardless of where your convictions lay. It is a word that is rampant in headlines across the U.S., increasingly so every day. It is a word that was introduced into our lexicon innocently enough, only to be kidnapped by the social media of the time and used to vilify and condemn a plant that never meant any harm.

The recall is Advanced Medical Alternatives’ second in eight days — and the 13th recall issued by the city of Denver’s Department of Environmental Health in 13 weeks

Denver marijuana business Advanced Medical Alternatives is voluntarily recalling 27 cartridges of its THC-infused vape pen oil because they contain potentially dangerous pesticides that cannot legally be used on cannabis in Colorado.

COLORADO – 15 Colorado McDonald franchises have announced that they are converting their McDonald’s Play Place areas into marijuana friendly smoking areas. Each facility will consist of 15 smoking pods in which customers can smoke a joint, bong, or pipe without being harassed or bothered by people who are offended by it.

Each pod not only contains the marijuana smoke within it’s small space, but also it repels the smell of the marijuana through a ventilation tube above the pod. So, although the doors are sealed in this previous “Play Place” location, the smell of marijuana will not seep into the main restaurant as people enter and exit the facility.

STONE, Colo., Dec. 10, 2015/ Weed Wire/– Wana Brands, a leading maker of infused products, today announced the addition of new products to its growing line of adult-use (leisure) items.

The brand-new items include Watermelon Sour Gummies, Hot Cocoa, and CBD Wana Cocoa Rolls. Wana Brands will also introduce High CBD WanaCapsXR into the Colorado adult-use market. The prolonged release marijuana pills, which were previously just readily available to the medical market, now provide leisure users medical benefits with little to no psychoactivity for approximately 12 hours.

Wana Brands items are readily available in over 400 of Colorado’s 480 dispensaries, and will be getting in Oregon and Nevada in early 2016.

MassRoots, Inc. (OTCQB:MSRT), one of the largest and fastest growing social networks for cannabis consumers, is pleased to announce that former Coca-Cola Enterprises Executive Terence Fitch has joined MassRoots’ Board of Directors.

3 years ago, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper formalized Amendment 64 into the state’s constitution. As my colleague Kristen Wyatt with the Associated Press wrote last year, “It was a procedural but important step. The governor’s executive order was the first public declaration that Colorado wouldn’t try to block marijuana legalization or ask the federal government, which considers pot illegal, to intervene.”

And here we are three years later, a slightly changed society.

Colorado leads the way in the marijuana business with states, countries and even Universities around the world looking at our program.  A group of Denver University (DU) students traveled to Uruguay as part of an international study program to examine the country’s cannabis culture and how it compares to Colorado.

It was a surprise for the students when they saw a glimpse of a marijuana grow cultivated by the Uruguay government.   “Wow…It was a room that looked like a field of marijuana plants. I’d never seen anything like that.” said Brittany Sandage.

Marijuana businesses have long proclaimed that cannabis is drawing visitors to Colorado. Now they have proof.

A study commissioned by the Colorado Tourism Office and presented to the office’s board of directors on Wednesday shows legal weed as a growing motivator for trips to Colorado — conflicting with the mantra of tourism officials statewide that savvy marketing alone is responsible for record visitation and spending in the last two years.

While the state’s “Come to Life” ad campaign is certainly successful, surveys in October and November of potential summertime visitors who were exposed to the state’s tourism ads revealed that the marijuana laws influenced vacation decisions more than 48 percent of the time.

DENVER — A major marijuana-infused manufacturing facility issued a voluntary recall Tuesday because of potentially unsafe pesticide residues in some product samples.

EPMM Colorado, which does business as EdiPure, said the recall affects 35,000 units of about 23 gummy and hard candy marijuana products.

The recall affects the following products:

A passel of parents protested a pot paraphernalia ordinance Tuesday for Colorado Springs, deeming it unnecessary, duplicative of state law and an attack on medical marijuana patients who are minors.

The law won preliminary City Council approval on a 7-2 vote, with Councilors Helen Collins and Bill Murray dissenting.

"This is seriously an overreach that will result in a police state," Murray said.

The city ordinance largely echoes state law, mandating that minors under age 18 cannot possess the paraphernalia unless they are medical marijuana patients. But the District Attorney's Office doesn't make marijuana-related crimes a priority, so a local law is needed to spur local prosecution, city documents say.