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  • Changes Coming to Colorado Marijuana in 2020

    Jan 6, 2020, 8:27 am By Toke of the Town
    The seventh year of recreational marijuana sales in Colorado promises to be an interesting one, with new laws allowing social consumption establishments and weed delivery, as well as new industry rules mandating more product testing while restricting vaping…
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  • In 2020, Try Not to Become a CBDipshit

    Jan 4, 2020, 7:19 am By Toke of the Town
    About six months ago, a Reddit user posted a photo of a sign pretending to peddle fake CBD-infused firewood. The Internet reacted as you’d expect, shaking a collective fist and rabble-rousing over something that was clearly intended as funny commentary…
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  • The Hemp Was Legal in Colorado. Kansas Didn’t Care.

    Jan 3, 2020, 7:17 am By Toke of the Town
    Eric Jensen feels trapped. By now, the 43-year-old thought he’d be able to travel from his home in southeastern Colorado to see his son play college ball in the Midwest. But instead, he can’t cross the border into Kansas. He’s stuck hanging around his…
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  • The Ten Biggest Colorado Marijuana Stories of 2019

    Jan 2, 2020, 12:16 pm By Thomas Mitchell
    Colorado has somehow managed to survive six years of recreational cannabis sales without burning down. But even so, there were plenty of hot, skunky issues to cover in 2019. This year, the Colorado Legislature further established this state as an epicenter of…
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  • Our Five Most Popular Ask a Stoner Questions of 2019

    Dec 31, 2019, 7:37 am By Toke of the Town
    As America’s knowledge about the plant grows, the range of subjects our Stoner handles have expanded. While most of the questions we received in previous years asked such things as how to roll a joint or if it’s possible to boof marijuana (it is, but be…
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  • CBD, CBC, ETC: Navigating the Alphabet Soup of Cannabis

    Dec 30, 2019, 7:46 am By Toke of the Town
    Remember 2012? Peyton Manning had started his first season with the Broncos, and none of us knew jack about CBD. Seven years later, most of us still know jack about CBD, but at least we recognize how ignorant we are about that and other cannabis compounds. The…
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  • Ask a Stoner: How Does Weed Affect Short-Term Memory?

    Dec 27, 2019, 7:35 am By Toke of the Town
    Dear Stoner: I’m getting sick of misplacing my keys, wallet or phone after smoking weed. How badly do blunts hurt my short-term memory? Rhoddy The post Ask a Stoner: How Does Weed Affect Short-Term Memory? appeared first on Toke of the Town.
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  • Why Colorado Tokers Love Hemlock

    Dec 26, 2019, 7:41 am By Toke of the Town
    We all have weird personal connections to certain words that cause us to hate them. I’m not talking about squirming when you hear “moist,” but about opinions that date from childhood, like my dislike for “hemlock.” Even before I knew the word’s…
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  • Merry Loudmas: Let’s Make a Ganjabread House

    Dec 25, 2019, 7:11 am By Toke of the Town
    Building gingerbread houses in elementary school usually involved fastening stale cookies to a milk carton, gluing some gumdrops and mints onto your uneven shack with frosting, and watching Frosty the Snowman for the 23rd time. Wasn’t it the best?…
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  • Denver, Colorado Springs Pot Lounges First to Apply for State Licenses

    Dec 24, 2019, 7:28 am By Toke of the Town
    The Coffee Joint, the first establishment to hold a cannabis consumption license in Denver, is now the second pot lounge business to apply for a state social consumption license. Colorado Springs social lounge Studio A64 successfully applied for a social…
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  • Ask a Stoner: What’s a Better Value, Weed or Wax?

    Dec 23, 2019, 7:39 am By Toke of the Town
    Dear Stoner: My roommate and I are always arguing over whether we should get wax or regular weed. Can you tell me which is a better value between an eighth of bud or a gram of wax? Daph The post Ask a Stoner: What’s a Better Value, Weed or Wax? appeared…
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  • OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder Launches “Mad Tasty” Sparkly Hemp Drink

    Dec 20, 2019, 7:14 am By Toke of the Town
    Songwriter and OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder has joined the throngs of musicians – from Willie Nelson to Nathaniel Rateliff – who are getting into the cannabis, CBD and hemp fields. But instead of launching a strain named after himself, Tedder is…
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  • Dispensary Robbery Ring Continues Spree, Hits Natives Roots

    Dec 19, 2019, 7:36 am By Toke of the Town
    A string of armed robberies at Denver-area marijuana dispensaries over the past two months continued into this week, according to the Denver Police Department, with the latest stickup taking place at one of Colorado’s largest dispensary chains. Armed robbers…
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  • With Federal Rules Looming, Can Hemp Farmers Still Strike Gold?

    7:52am By Toke of the Town
    Many American farmers were handed seeds of opportunity in October, when the United States Department of Agriculture released its much-anticipated regulations for farming hemp. The new federal rules came nearly a year after Congress legalized hemp farming, and…
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  • Colorado Health and Ag Officials Tackle CBD Gray Areas

    7:27am By Toke of the Town
    Driving around the residential streets of Colorado, you might see signs that look like they’re about to announce a garage sale but instead are advertising hemp or CBD oil. Like the homemade one pictured here, on Iliff Avenue in Aurora, hawking 1,444…
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  • Bong a Thon Gets in the Holiday Spirit With Cannamas

    Tue 7:27am By Toke of the Town
    Who said tokers don’t like Christmas? There was plenty of holiday cheer at the annual Bong a Thon’s Cannamas party, held on Friday, December 13, at Studio 420. The bong-rip contest included a potluck (infused goodies welcome). The post Bong a Thon Gets in…
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  • Ask a Stoner: Do Weed Products Get Seasonal?

    Tue 7:13am By Toke of the Town
    Dear Stoner: Does the pot industry get seasonal with it? Christmas edibles, strains and whatnot? Blitzen The post Ask a Stoner: Do Weed Products Get Seasonal? appeared first on Toke of the Town.
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  • Colorado Marijuana Sales Locking Up Another Record Year

    Dec 16, 2019, 12:55 pm By Thomas Mitchell
    Colorado dispensaries will almost certainly break another annual sales record for the fifth straight year since recreational weed stores first opened for business on January 1, 2014. According to data from the state Department of Revenue, Colorado dispensaries…
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  • Why Colorado Tokers Love Citradelic Sunset

    Dec 16, 2019, 7:59 am By Toke of the Town
    Daily commuters deserve more sympathy. Not only will the stress and time-suck of rush hour shave years off your life, but the drive will also rob you of the simple things, like daytime television, regular happy hours and the sun. Remember the sun? Anyone…
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  • Is THC-O the Closest Thing to Weed on Steroids?

    Dec 15, 2019, 7:36 am By Toke of the Town
    As chemists try to attain precise effects, cannabis has been modified into specified chemical structures. Some of these forms of THC, the main compound responsible for marijuana’s intoxicating effects, aren’t even produced naturally in the plant. THC…
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