The “scoping review” was ordered by the state legislature in 2021 over concerns about how high-potency cannabis could be impacting public health in Colorado
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A new study on marijuana legalization in Colorado answers the question: Has legal pot made other drug problems worse?
A study by researchers at the University of Colorado and the University of Minnesota uses long-term data on twins to assess the impacts of cannabis legalization
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What have we learned about the arguments for and against legalized marijuana in the past 10 years?
As we look back on a decade since Colorado’s landmark vote on legalized cannabis, we assess how arguments from both sides of the debate have borne out
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Colorado’s cannabis industry is enduring its first sustained downturn since recreational weed sales began
Colorado’s legal marijuana industry is weathering its first sustained downturn since dispensaries began selling recreational weed in 2014. Dispensaries are closing. New ventures, like delivery services and social clubs, are struggling. Tax revenues are plummeting. And across the industry, layoffs are sending marijuana workers packing. Colorado’s green boom is beginning to bust as more states […]
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Opinion: 10 years in, Marijuana legalization hasn’t changed the youth usage rate
This year we celebrate the 10-year-anniversary since Colorado took the courageous leap of legalizing marijuana. As Colorado’s cannabis marketplace has matured and thrived over the past decade, we know for certain: It is working and thriving. Adults and patients have access to safe products, incarceration rates for cannabis-related crimes have decreased, hundreds of millions of […]
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Colorado just released a big report on how cannabis legalization is going. Here’s what it found.
More than seven years since Colorado became the first state to allow cannabis to be sold at stores for recreational use, pot arrests are down, marijuana-impaired driving cases are up and school expulsions are both up and down. Those numbers — and a whole lot more — come from a new report released Monday by […]
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Denver City Council passes marijuana delivery, cannabis lounges
Marijuana deliveries and cannabis lounges will be allowed in Denver under changes to the city’s cannabis laws that leaders pushed forward this week. The City Council voted for the changes Monday, and they will now head to Mayor Michael Hancock, KDVR-TV reported. If signed into law, several of the changes would take effect immediately, but delivery […]
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Should states set pot policy by its potency? Some, including a Colorado lawmaker, say yes
By Jennifer Peltz, The Associated Press As marijuana legalization spreads across U.S. states, so does a debate over whether to set pot policy by potency. Under a law signed last month, New York will tax recreational marijuana based on its amount of THC, the main intoxicating chemical in cannabis. Illinois imposed a potency-related tax when […]
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Coloradans convicted of marijuana possession could easily get their record sealed under new bill
Colorado lawmakers are on track to give more people convicted of marijuana possession offenses the opportunity to easily seal their criminal record, by requiring courts to seal convictions for possession up to two ounces for people who haven’t committed a crime since. House Bill 1090 would also expand Colorado’s recreational marijuana possession limit to two […]
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Colorado’s marijuana industry flexed its big muscles and now an effort to limit pot potency is unraveling
State Rep. Yadira Caraveo says her proposal to limit the potency of marijuana sold recreationally in Colorado was just in its beginning stages. But when draft legislation was recently leaked and prominent figures in the state’s cannabis industry created an uproar, the measure started unraveling. Now, Caraveo, a Thornton Democrat and pediatrician, is backing off […]