New Colorado marijuana business licenses reserved for low-income demographics will launch next year. However, questions remain about who exactly qualifies for the licenses and how those licenses should be regulated. […]
Colorado Leads members last week met with U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, who introduced the STATES Act with Massachusetts Democrat U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren. The bill would amend the Controlled Substances […]
Marketwatch takes a deep dive into the mixed results of cannabis equity programs, the hurdles facing people of color trying to break into the cannabis industry and some prominent figures […]
Guaranteed to be the top-clicked story in the newsletter We were going to ignore this . . . but just couldn’t. Cannabis and sex. Read More » Getting what you […]
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams says cannabis is three times stronger now than in the 1990s. “This ain’t your mother’s marijuana,” he said a week ago. Arguing against […]
There are now more than 211,000 cannabis jobs across the United States (296,000 if indirect jobs are included). More than 64,000 of those jobs were added in 2018. That’s […]
Colorado medical licenses decline as recreational sales increase. Last year, 66 percent of the total pounds of marijuana flowers and 86 percent of the total units of edibles were for […]
The Pew Charitable Trusts looks at the inherent difficulties in projecting tax revenues in states with legal cannabis. The report includes some interesting graphics comparing Colorado to other states. […]
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis Polis outlined his plan for making hemp an agricultural mainstay in Colorado. Currently, 62,000 acres are allotted for hemp farming, which Polis wants to increase by […]
Harvard University’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found a chemical in cannabis that has demonstrated “significant therapy potential” in treatment of pancreatic cancer. The study is the first to show not only a […]