With cannabis legalization spreading, local governments are left with little direction on how to change current policies to reflect the new legal reality. Many questions remain, but...
Monday night Denver’s city council passed its regulations for retail cannabis dispensaries in the city. The regulations determine where dispensaries can be located and set the application...
Protesters gathered in Denver’s Civic Center Park Monday to slam Proposition AA, the statewide recreational marijuana tax proposal that will be decided by Colorado voters in November....
Monday, Colorado became the first state in the nation to finalize marijuana regulations for the recreational industry. The regulations have set all the rules for the industry except...
Speaking today before the US Senate Judiciary Committee, Deputy Attorney General James Cole reaffirmed that the Justice Department is unlikely to challenge statewide marijuana legalization efforts, provided...
Yesterday, the Denver City Council approved a 3.5% additional sales tax on retail cannabis. The tax will be in addition to the 15% state sales tax, and...
A new poll by Quinnipiac University found that public opinion of marijuana legalization hasn’t changed much in Colorado since voters approved Amendment 64. Of the 1,184 Colorado...
The Denver City Council is holding a meeting this afternoon to discuss the regulation of recreational marijuana in the city. Among the issues the council will address...
At a Denver City Council hearing held on Monday to discuss implementing a 5% marijuana sales tax, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey held the floor to claim that medical...
As Colorado prepares to unleash legal retail marijuana, many people are growing nervous about what is to come. Some folks are still convinced that the sky will...
Colorado’s Department of Revenue released “emergency rules” earlier this month for the recreational marijuana industry, but the rules are being fine-tuned by 5 working groups over the...
Members of the Colorado Department of Revenue were taken to school recently, learning a very important lesson about marijuana plants, and their plans for seed to sale...
In an excellent article on the Denver Post, Vincent Carrol explains that officials are waiting to pounce on the marijuana industry like a cash cow, and points...
The city council in Longmont, Colorado voted 4-2 (with one council member absent) to ban recreational marijuana businesses and 6-0 to ban private cannabis clubs. Opponents of...
In a public ceremony at the state capitol in Denver Tuesday, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) signed into law four bills that will establish a legal, regulated marijuana...
Brandon Baker of Nunn, Colorado is filing a lawsuit against the soon-to-be-signed stoned driving bill. Baker claims, and we at Weedist have seen, that the limits set...
Washington has already begun training new police dogs that do not alert police to marijuana, and Colorado is now getting on board. It’s crucial for these two...
As reported in the Denver Post yesterday, Colorado is now the first state in the United States to have a legal hemp operation. Farmer Ryan Loflin is...
Gaining support With House Bill 1318 and Senate Concurrent Resolution 3 Colorado lawmakers sought to blackmail voters into approving exorbitant taxes on cannabis. The Colorado legislature recently approved House...
