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New look marijuana products threaten Colorado kids
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A Colorado committee recently considered how to regulate a new generation of marijuana-based products that illustrate just how far commercialization has extended since the comparatively innocent days before the legalization of recreational marijuana. The official state work group considered what to do about radically new ways to deliver intense amounts of THC, the main psychoactive…
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FEEDBACK | Let’s help our struggling neighbors — and keep kids off of pot
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‘Caring for Denver’ is a vote for mental health As your readers may know, Denver will be voting in November on a proposal to raise Denver’s sales tax approximately 25 cents per $100. The money raised will go toward funding for detox programs, suicide prevention services, community preventative measures, and other services. If passed in…
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Colo.’s draft rules on cannabis inhalers, suppositories draw lively debate
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Colorado’s first step toward regulating some of the newest ways to ingest marijuana and cannabis got off to a lively start Monday when a working group of state regulators, industry professionals and community activists met in Golden to debate just how that would work. The group included regulators from the Colorado Department of Public Health…
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Enough! Continued marijuana commercialization threatens Colorado kids
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Since Colorado voters in 2012 approved Amendment 64 to legalize recreational marijuana, the industry has continually tried to expand marijuana commercialization through the legislative process. It’s understandable that some in the industry want more opportunities to make money from marijuana. But at some point we as a state have to stand up for kids and…
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Open late: Denver OKs expanded hours for retail marijuana shops
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Denver officials gave retail marijuana dispensaries the OK to operate for an extra three hours in the evening — a measure that would bring hours for city retail cannabis shop hours in line with neighboring communities. The City Council approved the bill 11-2 during a regular meeting April 24, which allows medical and/or recreational marijuana dispensaries to…
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Denver Council argues over extending marijuana store hours
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Instead of a sought-after additional five hours of business, Denver’s recreational marijuana dispensaries seem likely to be allowed three extra hours, and city coffers could see between $664,000 to $1.3 million in extra revenue if all those dispensaries decided to take advantage of the extra hours that may soon be allowed under a City and…
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Denver pot stores cite safer roads, extra city revenue with more hours
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Denver’s marijuana dispensaries are seeking longer hours to have a level playing field with other city businesses and competitors in neighboring communities. City Council listened to mostly supportive arguments for extending the closing hours from 7 p.m. to midnight at a recent Special Issues Committee hearing. Currently, Denver’s hours of operation for both medical and…
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The Hot Sheet – Trump story gets YUUUGGGE, a mixed baggie of weed data, the cost of being ‘faithless,’ Oh, golly – another candidate for guv and … MORE!
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VOL. 01 NO. 211 | DECEMBER 22, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 DENVER – Same story, different year. With the start of the Colorado legislative session just 20 days off, media speculation and a tad bit of media bias is beginning to sprout through the freshly fallen snow; media bias in the sense of which bills,…
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? Billboard touts Denver pot consumption initiative
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Backers of Initiated Ordinance 300 (I-300), a City and County of Denver measure on the Nov. 8 general election ballot that would allow marijuana consumption in some private establishments, unveiled a billboard Monday to promote voter approval of the measure. The billboard, located at 489 Lincoln St., reads “Now that adult use is legal… Permit it in some…
