Under the Dome
Tasting rooms, other cannabis bills advancing in Colorado legislature.
CBD, the growing wonder drug?
New study indicates the oil used for pain, anxiety and seizures may also prevent relapses in alcoholics and cocaine and other drug addicts.
Another study indicates cannabis-based products could help eczema and other skin ailments.
Another Colorado first
Colorado lawmakers form nation’s first “Cannabis Caucus.”
Dr. Larry Wolk, executive director and chief medical officer of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, told a crowded room of Colorado Leads members that the state “has a pragmatic, objective and evidence-based approach to marijuana legalization.”
Wolk discussed a wide-range of issues surrounding the legal cannabis industry and dispelled a number of myths perpetuated by legalization opponents.
“Access doesn’t necessarily mean an increase in use,” he said. “There is a very low rate of marijuana-related ER and hospital visits (in Colorado). We shouldn’t make more out of it.”
Marijuana laws boosting warehouse business
Integra Realty Resources new Marijuana Real Estate report says demand for grow facilities is changing – and dramatically raising the prices – on warehouse properties.
Social consumption
Denver issues the country’s first license for public cannabis consumption to the Coffee Joint while lawmakers consider legislation to make tasting rooms legal statewide.
Sessions backtracking?
Attorney General says federal law enforcement lacks the resources for “routine cases;” will keep its marijuana prosecutorial focus on gangs and larger conspiracies.
CU looks to public for second mobile lab
University of Colorado researchers turn to crowdfunding to raise money for a second mobile cannabis research lab.
Entrepreneur and Medicine Man Technologies co-founder Andy Williams
Said in support of legislative attempts to ease cannabis industry ownership restrictions.
Debate…
Dan Anglin, President of AmericannaCo, debated Jeff Hunt of Colorado’s Centennial Institute on a variety of topics and questions about Colorado’s cannabis industry. The debate was broadcast live to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week.
The future of drug testing?
Cannabis groups promote new testing app to help garner support for legislation to keep workers from being fired for lawful use.
Pot tax law fixed
Governor signs bill to fix legislative error that was costing special districts millions in revenue.
The Colorado Legislature is back, and with it, of course, comes proposals to tweak marijuana laws. One bill aims to make the state more competitive with California and Oregon by […]
Political leaders of all stripes stood strong this month against Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ surprise announcement that he was rescinding the Obama-era policy that discouraged prosecutors from enforcing federal laws against marijuana in states where it is legal.
The unity among Democrats and Republicans — even one foe of the state referendum that made recreational cannabis legal — is a testament to the success Colorado has had in developing a booming yet responsible and regulated new industry.
Colorado Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Coffman said in an op-ed for the Washington Post that it’s too late to dismantle the industry. And U.S. Sen. Corey Gardner, R-Colorado, vowed to block Trump’s judicial nominees.
Quotable:
“I will be putting a hold on every single nomination from the Department of Justice until Attorney General Jeff Sessions lives up to the commitment he made to me in my pre-confirmation meeting with him. The conversation we had that was specifically about this issue of states’ rights in Colorado. Until he lives up to that commitment, I’ll be holding up all nominations of the Department of Justice. The people of Colorado deserve answers. The people of Colorado deserve to be respected.” – U.S. Sen. Corey Gardner, R-Colo.
Here’s what else Colorado politicians had to say (The Cannabist)
Related headlines:
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) on Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ marijuana policy change: “I will be holding all nominations for the Department of Justice. The people of Colorado deserve answers.” Watch complete Senate session here: http://cs.pn/2Cnyx3j
Colorado Springs may reconsider ban on recreational pot
Some in Colorado Springs are rethinking the city’s ban on recreational marijuana sales as cash flows to neighbors.
http://www.thecannabist.co/2017/12/19/colorado-springs-marijuana-laws/94915/
Dream scholarship?
It may sound like every college student’s dream, but a Boulder potrepreneur is serious about a scholarship to fund cannabis industry studies.
Food for thought
Can the cannabis industry learn from the tech industry’s mistakes? Fast Company takes a look at efforts to diversify the burgeoning legal marijuana.
New labeling requirements and pesticide testing are among the regulatory changes recently finalized by the state Marijuana Enforcement Division. The rules, which also open the door for public-private research projects, are in response to statutory mandates passed in the 2016 legislative session.
“We tried to clean up some of the white noise that is out there,” Mike Hartman, executive director of the Colorado Department of Revenue, said of the labeling changes that are intended to help consumers with information related to public health and safety.