Tag: Colorado

Weed Dinner At Hunter S. Thompson’s

Munchies Specials A Gourmet Weed Dinner At Hunter S. Thompson’s House To celebrate marijuana legalization in Colorado, Munchies columnist David Bienenstock recently traveled to Aspen, to attend a legal seminar hosted by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws—America’s oldest and largest group […]

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The Fed rejects marijuana bank

Between Pot and a Hard Place: Fed Rejects Colorado Marijuana Bank by ASSOCIATED PRESS DENVER — Colorado’s attempt to create a bank to service its marijuana industry has suffered another setback by the federal government and could be facing an impossible dilemma. The Federal Reserve — […]

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Cannabis For Children Debate

Cannabis For Kids: The Children Behind The Debate More parents are turning to cannabidiol (CBD) oil, a cannabis extract with little or none of the psychoactive compound THC, to treat their children who have cancer and epilepsy. The oil is currently legal in dozens of states, […]

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Rolling Papers (2015)

The Cannabist (2015) Rolling Papers: A Documentary Film On January 1, 2014, recreational marijuana sales began in Colorado. With all eyes on ground zero of the green rush, The Denver Post became the first major media outlet to embrace it and appointed the world’s first […]

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Chasing the High (documentary)

CPAC Documentaries: Chasing the High the politics of pot WATCH DOCUMENTARY ON YOUTUBE WATCH DOCUMENTARY ON CPAC With marijuana sure to be an issue in the next federal election, this CPAC documentary explores the current debate in Canada over a drug that is illegal but […]

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Nancy Grace marijuana hit piece

Nancy Grace Flashback: ”Marijuana Users Stab, Strangle and Kill Whole Families” Truth Frequency Radio Jan 16, 2015 Truthstream Media Remember this? After Colorado legalized marijuana for recreational use, Nancy Grace found it within herself to claim that people who use it kill whole families. Of […]

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Corporate Takeover of Legal Cannabis

Cannabis Inc. Is the Cannabis industry about to become the new Big Tobacco? Today Washington State becomes the second state to fully legalise marijuana. As the change in law approaches, a new wave of slick entrepreneurs are set to cash in on a post-prohibition boom. “For […]

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Infographic: Legal weed’s consequences

Infographic: Legal weed’s consequences Six months later, how have recreational pot shops affected Colorado? Sam Bollier and Sam Koebrich Viewing this from your mobile? Click here Article source Al Jazeera

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Cannabis: new opportunities for women

Cannabis: A new job frontier for women? Interesting coincidence. The White House Summit on Working Families last week issued some statistics that underscored continuing challenges of gender inequality in the workplace. At around the same time, at the Cannabis Business Summit in Denver, a group of female business […]

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CHAMPS EXPO Grassroots California

Ryan Ruga Connolly from Grassroots California talks to Dopechef about the top caps and apparel coming out of Denver by way of LA, flagship store at 2209 Larimer Street in Denver, Colorado   Topics include: Legal cannabis in Denver, relationship with NORML, Method Man, legalization […]

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American Weed: Mile High Showdown

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire! Find out what happens when a small town must decide whether or not to legalize a budding industry. Rocky Mountain Medicine special episode. Featuring the stories of the Cop, the Patient, and the Grower, in a potentially billion dollar industry. […]

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WEED 2 (CNN Documentary)

Dr. Sanjay Gupta follows up the highly respected ‘Weed – Sanjay Gupta MD’ report with ‘Weed 2 Cannabis Madness’ on CNN For more info on the Weed 2 documentary check out Dr. Gupta’s interview with Vice: THE US GOVERNMENT NOW SUPPLIES CANNABIS EXTRACTS TO EPILEPTIC […]

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President Obama’s thoughts on pot

A recent feature article in the New Yorker on the annals of the presidency titled GOING THE DISTANCE On and off the road with Barack Obama by David Remnick includes a question on the cultural trends toward legalization of marijuana. Below is an article quote with President […]

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Colorado 1st State for Recreational Marijuana

Video from PBS Newshour via Pot TV PBS – On the first of the new year, Colorado residents lined up at specialty shops across the state to legally purchase marijuana for recreational use for the first time. Buyers, age 21 and older, can only purchase […]

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TOMORROW, I’M GOING TO BUY LEGAL WEED

TOMORROW, I’M GOING TO BUY LEGAL WEED By David Bienenstock Elan Nelson, a cannabis industry consultant, looks over Medicine Man’s cannabis inventory in anticipation of a high-volume sales day. Weed has already been legal in Colorado and Washington state for more than a year, only […]

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Denver Council moves to decriminalize Marijuana for Minors

Denver Council Makes Move To Decriminalize Marijuana For Minors December 16, 2013 9:44 PM   (credit: CBS) DENVER (CBS4) – The Denver City Council has made a move to try and make sure minors who are caught with pot aren’t punished too harshly. A law voters passed […]

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Front Porch Toking Approved in Denver

Front Porch Toking Approved in Denver BY RUSS BELVILLE · WED DEC 11, 2013 The Denver City Council had its third and final vote on a city ordinance regulating marijuana consumption and approved the toking of marijuana on private property even if it can be seen by the public. […]

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Colorado approves 25% tax on recreational marijuana

Colorado voters approve 25 percent taxes on recreational marijuana By Keith Coffman DENVER | Wed Nov 6, 2013 1:20am EST (Reuters) – A Colorado measure to impose sales and excise taxes of 25 percent on newly legalized recreational marijuana and earmark the first $40 million in revenue […]

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HIGH COUNTRY The Future of Weed

Vice Magazine Motherboard documentary on cannabis legalization goes to Denver, Colorado, ground zero for the new green rush involving regulation and taxation of legal marijuana

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