The city of Denver wants to share its blueprint for legal marijuana this week.

DENVER – Fears that trick-or-treaters here might end up with marijuana-laced candy on Halloween appear to have been overblown: Children's Hospital Colorado reported no instances of accidental pot poisonings from Friday night.

The Denver Police Department last month warned parents to be on the lookout for marijuana candies, in large part because they are virtually identical in appearance to candies available from grocery stores. And some "edibles" makers simply buy commercially available candies and spray or inject them with marijuana oil.

Barring some major backtracking by Canada’s new Liberal government, marijuana could soon be legal across the land.

Getting rid of the laws that criminalize the drug shouldn’t be too challenging, according to one U.S. official, but actually implementing and monitoring the market for it will be a complex exercise.

Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division director Lewis Koski spoke to The West Block‘s Tom Clark this weekend about his state’s experience since it made marijuana legal for recreational purposes back in 2013.

Justin Henderson was a little gun-shy at first. But it was 2008, and the Great Recession had stalled the real estate industry, leaving the Denver-based developer sitting on properties that weren't cash-flowing. When a couple of friends and colleagues started leasing their warehouses to pot growers, Henderson weighed his own options. "It's a tricky thing to tell everybody in your conservative financial life that you're part of the marijuana industry," he said.

Henderson now heads a company he believes is poised to become a mover in the cannabis industry beyond Colorado's borders.

At the after-party for the National Cannabis Summit — an annual conference thick with entrepreneurs and business people, held in the bowels of the Sheraton in downtown Denver — eight of us attendees boogied alongside one of the more engaging speakers, the medical researcher Dr. Suzanne Sisley, who wore throughout the party a towering, purple velvet Mad Hatter’s hat. Remembering that in her speech she had said, “I’ve never tried marijuana in any form,” I wanted to whisper in her ear, “But your millinery tells a different story.”

The CEO of Denver-based Kindman says Proposition BB won’t create the anticipated financial windfall for school construction and education program, and says a ‘no’ vote on the issue would mean more money returned to consumers’ pockets – and more jobs for the local economy

Colorado residents are considering a unique ballot measure on Tuesday, November 3; and the CEO of one of the state’s largest recreational cannabis companies is calling on voters to vote “No” against Proposition BB.

According to Colorado state law, anytime an estimated tax is exceeded that excess amount is targeted for a refund to taxpayers.

This show has invested millions in budding entrepreneurs, and it isn’t “Shark Tank.”

“The Marijuana Show” launched its first 13-episode season online last year, providing a broadcast platform for marijuana companies to pitch their ideas to interested investors. It just wrapped its second season, which ended up with $13 million in total investments from four new investors, who are described as more “dolphin” than shark for their willingness to mentor contestants.

In a motion that could throw federal enforcement of marijuana laws in Colorado into commotion, a lawyer at the center of one of the biggest criminal pot cases in the state’s legal-marijuana era is asking a judge to toss out the case against him.

In the new motion, lawyer David Furtado argues that the federal crimes he is charged with — money laundering and trying to deposit proceeds from an illegal enterprise into a bank — all stem from activity that is legal under state law in Colorado. Because Congress last year passed a law prohibiting the U.S. Department of Justice from spending money to interfere with state medical marijuana laws, Furtado argues that the indictment against him should be dismissed.

Business is booming in Manitou Springs, and its sales tax collections are at record levels.

The city brought in $2.71 million through August, more than the total for all of last year. A noteworthy figure, considering the sales tax revenue collected in 2014 was the city's largest total in at least a decade, according to data provided by its finance department.

And while a string of summer months devoid of major fires and floods and an improving economy have helped contribute to Manitou's success, recreational marijuana sales cannot be ignored.

"We were well on our way to financial health and recovery of our community," Mayor Marc Snyder said. "And the new taxes from recreational marijuana were just a real boost."