Author: David Olinger
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BEST OF COPO 2018 | Pot goes to school: With marijuana legal in Colorado, student encounters are rising
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BruceStanfield (iStock/Getty Images) Colorado Politics is taking a look back at some of our most significant and compelling stories of 2018. This story originally was published May 8. Colorado’s cultural acceptance of marijuana by adults is seeping into public school classrooms. The result is more marijuana-related suspensions of students, more police visits to schools for…
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COVER STORY | Colorado’s big marijuana players are going global
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The joint chiefs of the company are 33-year-old twins. They first went into business as brothers who bought and flipped houses, until the real estate bubble burst into the Great Recession. One then left for the Marines, inspired by an older brother sent to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Another brother graduated from Colorado Christian…
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Metro Denver a national hub of illegal marijuana, but records vary by government agency
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In four years, Denver has become a pot shopping capital of the United States. Regulators have approved 162 recreational marijuana licenses in the city alone and a total of 286 in the metro area – nearly three-fifths of recreational licenses in the state. It has also grown into an epicenter of illegal marijuana cultivation, often…
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Colorado traffic deaths involving marijuana rise again
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The number of highway deaths involving Colorado drivers who had marijuana in their system grew again in 2017, a new state study shows. At the same time, traffic fatalities in which drivers had enough marijuana in their bloodstream to be deemed legally impaired dropped sharply, from 52 in 2016 to 35 last year. The reason…
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Marijuana lobbying gains potency in Colorado
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The marijuana industry in Colorado has grown quickly into a potent lobbying force at the state Capitol. Marijuana businesses, law firms, consultants and trade organizations spent at least $720,000 on lobbyists during the 2018 legislative session that ran through May 9, according to an analysis by Colorado Politics. That was more than oil and gas…
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COVER STORY: Pot goes to school: With marijuana legal in Colorado, student encounters are rising
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COVER STORY: Pot goes to school: With marijuana legal in Colorado, student encounters are rising Colorado’s cultural acceptance of marijuana by adults is seeping into public school classrooms. The result is more marijuana-related suspensions of students, more police visits to schools for marijuana incidents, and a greater acceptance of the drug by students who live…
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Black market marijuana busts nearly quadruple under Colorado’s recreational marijuana legalization
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Four years after legal recreational marijuana went on sale in Colorado, Gov. John Hickenlooper says the black market for marijuana in the state is shrinking and predicted that it “will be largely gone” in a few years. But new statistics show that arrests for the production of black market pot increased by 380 percent in…
