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  • Why Some Airports Carry Weed Amnesty Boxes, and Denver Doesn’t

    Jan 27, 2020, 7:35 am By Toke of the Town
    Even when leaving Colorado, most airline passengers know they’re not allowed to bring marijuana onto their flight. But for those who still try or simply forget what’s inside their luggage, some Colorado airports have amnesty boxes for marijuana disposal…
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  • Ask a Stoner: Has Colorado’s Pot Bubble Burst Yet?

    Jan 26, 2020, 7:32 am By Toke of the Town
    Dear Stoner: Has Colorado’s weed bubble popped now that all of these other places allow it? It’s not just a few states anymore. Ryan The post Ask a Stoner: Has Colorado’s Pot Bubble Burst Yet? appeared first on Toke of the Town.
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  • Why Colorado Tokers Love Bazookies

    Jan 25, 2020, 7:14 am By Toke of the Town
    I had eleven family members in town for a week during the holidays, and about half of us smoke pot. Safe to say, I made a lot of dispensary runs for edibles, which are are still exotic foreign goods to out-of-staters. During all of this shopping for candy bars…
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  • Ask a Stoner: How Many Forms of THC Are There?

    Jan 24, 2020, 7:31 am By Toke of the Town
    Dear Stoner: How many forms of THC are there? I feel like I’ve been seeing references with different letters lately. Bango The post Ask a Stoner: How Many Forms of THC Are There? appeared first on Toke of the Town.
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  • Perlmutter Pushes Senate to Consider Marijuana Banking

    Jan 23, 2020, 7:10 am By Toke of the Town
    After the SAFE Banking Act, a measure that would allow banks and financial institutions to serve legal marijuana companies, passed the U.S. House of Representatives on September 25, Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter was confident of the bill’s chances in…
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  • University of Denver Classes Mold Marijuana Industry Professionals

    Jan 22, 2020, 7:27 am By Toke of the Town
    Legal marijuana’s place in college education is still limited, but it’s starting to pay off for some University of Denver graduates. The university’s Sturm College of Law and its media and journalism programs have offered classes centered on legal weed…
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  • Destination Dispensaries Across Colorado

    Jan 21, 2020, 7:49 am By Toke of the Town
    A lack of things to do besides shop at dispensaries hasn’t exactly hurt pot’s popularity, but offering customers grow tours, building themed-dispensaries or opening a pot lounge next door certainly adds to the fun. While new social consumption licenses…
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  • Why Colorado Tokers Love Desert Ruby

    Jan 20, 2020, 7:43 am By Toke of the Town
    The realization hit me like a depressing hailstorm: I’m old. It wasn’t the receding hairline, or the weird looks that college Chads and Beckys gave me after I accidentally bought (and used) student tickets to a Colorado State University basketball game.…
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  • Weed-Infused Brewery Launches Sober Beer for Liquor Stores

    Jan 19, 2020, 7:54 am By Toke of the Town
    With the year of hard seltzer still fresh in our minds and younger generations of consumers moving away from alcohol, craft breweries are scrambling to expand their portfolios. Some are moving to cannabis, while others are making non-alcoholic drinks. One…
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  • Happy Trees: Pot-Friendly Painting Is Here to Stay

    7:49am By Toke of the Town
    Riding to dispensaries and cultivation tours on weed-friendly buses, learning how to cook edibles, and playing in dab-and-disc-golf tournaments have all been activities featured in our weekly Cannabis Calendar, but cannabis-friendly paint classes seem to have…
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  • Should You Be Fired for Smoking Weed Off-Hours? This Bill Says No.

    Fri 7:41am By Toke of the Town
    Amendment 64, the ballot initiative that voters approved in 2012 to legalize recreational weed in Colorado, says that “marijuana should be regulated in a manner similar to alcohol,” but that hasn’t made the plant equal to alcohol in the eyes of many…
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  • Blue Moon Creator Releases Weed-Infused IPA

    Jan 16, 2020, 7:42 am By Toke of the Town
    Colorado cannabis brewery Ceria Brewing Company has added to its lineup of pot-infused barley pops with a new IPA. Founded by Blue Moon creator Keith Villa in 2018, Ceria debuted in Colorado dispensaries with a Belgian-style white ale and followed it up with…
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  • Ask a Stoner: Mixing Strains in Homemade Edibles

    Jan 15, 2020, 8:01 am By Toke of the Town
    Dear Stoner: I’m about to make a bunch of weed butter, but was wondering if extracting from different strains and mixing them together would give me too screwy of a high. Connie The post Ask a Stoner: Mixing Strains in Homemade Edibles appeared first on…
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  • Marijuana Sales in 2019 Break a Record…With a Month to Go

    Jan 14, 2020, 11:42 am By Toke of the Town
    Colorado marijuana dispensaries have set a new sales record for the sixth consecutive year, according to the state Department of Revenue. Commercial pot sales accounted for just over $141 million in November, state data shows. That was good enough to put…
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  • How to Use Cannabis Without Getting Others Sick

    Jan 13, 2020, 7:49 am By Toke of the Town
    We’ve reached peak sniffle season in Colorado, when a third of your office mates sound like their sinuses are more clogged than the toilets at a Chipotle. And even though we’re not supposed to, many of us are still smoking cannabis and tobacco during these…
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  • Dispensary Promises $14 Eighths With “Budget-Friendly Flower”

    Jan 11, 2020, 7:38 am By Toke of the Town
    Colorado has allowed retail marijuana sales for over six years, but pot prices have yet to find their footing. Now, one dispensary chain says that it can guarantee a cheap price point for customers. The Green Solution, Colorado’s largest dispensary chain,…
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  • Ask a Stoner: Am I Too Old for Gravity Bongs?

    Jan 10, 2020, 7:23 am By Toke of the Town
    Dear Stoner: At what point is one too old to use a gravity bong? I rarely smoke, but when I do, I prefer a gravity bong. But apparently that’s juvenile, according to my mother. Andres The post Ask a Stoner: Am I Too Old for Gravity Bongs? appeared first on…
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  • Armed Robbers Hit Another Denver Dispensary

    Jan 9, 2020, 7:41 am By Toke of the Town
    Another Denver marijuana dispensary was recently held up at gunpoint, adding to a list of unsolved pot shop robberies in the city. Ascend Cannabis Company, located at 3555 South Yosemite Street, was robbed at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Friday, January 3, by a…
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  • Marijuana Lab Founder: Vitamin E Occurs Naturally in THC Vapes

    Jan 8, 2020, 7:25 am By Toke of the Town
    Hospitalizations from vaping have slowed significantly since the fall, when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officially linked vitamin E acetate, a vaping additive used to dilute nicotine and marijuana oils, to the vast majority of the illnesses…
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  • Kicco Koffie Wants to Stir Up the World Through CBD Coffee

    Jan 7, 2020, 7:28 am By Toke of the Town
    Kicco Koffie officially launched at the end of 2019, but the new CBD coffee company already wants to add something to its brand: global entrepreneurship. “Our goal was to create a product that could service a need,” says Kicco co-founder Vincent Sarlos.…
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