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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Opinion: Denver needs a steady funding stream to build tiny homes for homeless residents
The City Council has endorsed the concept of tiny-home villages, which have a good track record. What it needs is the money to scale up.
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
Marijuana legalization in Colorado is 10 years old. Here’s the story of how it happened.
An oral history of Colorado’s unprecedented approval of Amendment 64, told by the people who fought for — and against — it
Proposition 122: Colorado voters will decide whether to legalize the possession and use of magic mushrooms
The measure would allow for the creation of natural medicine healing centers where people could use psychedelic mushrooms. There are some unexpected critics.
Did marijuana legalization lead to increased use in Colorado? A new study has a novel answer.
The study, by a former University of Colorado graduate student, looked at data on twins to answer a longstanding question
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 […]
Welcome to Kush, Colorado, the new Napa Valley of weed if one entrepreneur has his way
MOFFAT — Erick Reichwald pulls his truck and camping trailer into the freshly graveled alley and hops out. “Where’s my lot again?” he asks Mike Biggio. Biggio, the co-owner of Moffat’s Area 420 cannabis business park — the largest commercial marijuana operation in the country — points his newest resident to a 1-acre parcel of […]
What’d I Miss?: The high price of a cash-only marijuana industry
Myra has missed 30 years of her life, due to a coma, but has found a new friendship with her young neighbor, Ossie. Together, they both are searching for their place in this world. < Previous | Start from the beginning | Next >
Robberies, deaths renew calls for Congress to pass legislation letting cannabis businesses access banking
By Gene Johnson, The Associated Press SEATTLE — A surge in robberies at licensed cannabis shops — including a pistol-whipping, gunshots and killings in Washington state last month — is helping fuel a renewed push for federal banking reforms that would make the cash-dependent stores a less appealing target. “It makes absolutely no sense that […]