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  • Why the Denver Botanic Gardens Doesn’t Grow Hemp

    Oct 4, 2018, 9:53 am By Toke of the Town
    The Denver Botanic Gardens spans 24 acres, with seventeen gardens showcasing plants that thrive in Colorado’s arid climate — and that’s only counting the main location on York Street. The Denver Botanic Gardens also runs Chatfield Farms, a 700-acre…
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  • Most of Colorado Still Bans Grows, But State Still Harvested 554,233 Pounds Through June

    Oct 4, 2018, 7:52 am By Toke of the Town
    Although cannabis and Colorado are inextricably linked in the minds of many outsiders, most of the state still bans pot businesses, according to new data from the state Marijuana Enforcement Division. Even so, over 550,000 pounds of cannabis were harvested…
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  • Why This Colorado Law Firm Is Upset Over DEA’s Rescheduling of CBD Medication

    Oct 3, 2018, 3:50 pm By Toke of the Town
    The Drug Enforcement Administration appeared to take a large step forward on Thursday, September 27, when it confirmed that it would reclassify Epidiolex as a Schedule V substance. The move follows Food and Drug Administration approval and classifies the…
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  • Cannabis Growing Tips With Lucy Sky’s Head Grower

    Oct 3, 2018, 2:47 pm By Thomas Mitchell
    No matter the plant’s legal status, Colorado has never been short of growers of cannabis — so out-of-staters looking to get into the business need to know what they’re doing. And Mike Meyer (without the “s,” so don’t confuse him with Austin Powers…
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  • Cannabis Business Compound Stakes a Claim in Rural Colorado

    Sep 24, 2018, 7:29 am By Toke of the Town
    Moffat was a major cattle shipping center along the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad in the early 1900s, but over the past century the population of this town in southern Colorado dwindled, until it now holds barely 100 residents, according to U.S. Census…
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  • Ask a Stoner: Why Does Weed Make Me a Movie Snob?

    Sep 22, 2018, 8:13 am By Toke of the Town
    Dear Stoner: Why do I turn into such a movie snob when I get high? It’s like I’m way more critical when I watch TV after smoking. Confused The post Ask a Stoner: Why Does Weed Make Me a Movie Snob? appeared first on Toke of the Town.
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  • What’s it Like to Own a Dispensary? We Asked Reagan Yeomans.

    Sep 21, 2018, 3:29 pm By Toke of the Town
    Colorado’s cannabis industry has come a long way since medical marijuana dispensaries started popping up a decade ago. The industry exploded with the start of legal recreational sales on January 1, 2014, and a boom in capital funding soon ushered in a more…
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  • Inside the Nastiest Colorado Marijuana Industry Lawsuits Ever

    Sep 21, 2018, 9:08 am By Toke of the Town
    The Marijuana Industry Group has helped the Colorado cannabis business develop into an awesome revenue machine that generates sales measured in the billions. But behind the scenes, MIG is embroiled in dueling Denver District Court lawsuits that pit the…
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  • Colorado Could Learn Something From San Francisco’s Pot Lounges

    Sep 21, 2018, 7:11 am By Toke of the Town
    Denver may be a leader in regulating recreational cannabis sales, but it’s hard to say the same about recreational cannabis consumption. Despite allowing medical marijuana dispensaries in town for over a decade and retail pot shops for nearly five years,…
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  • Why Colorado Tokers Love Fruity Pebbles OG

    Sep 20, 2018, 1:08 pm By Thomas Mitchell
    I recently heard Ving Rhames say in a radio interview that Quentin Tarantino “loves breakfast cereal.” Rather than go down the rabbit hole of wondering what fucked-up combination of booze and breakfast Tarantino has in the morning, I started craving some…
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  • Colorado Dispensaries Break Records With July Sales

    8:46am By Toke of the Town
    Colorado marijuana sales continued their summer uptick in July with record-breaking sales, according to the Colorado Department of Revenue. The state’s dispensaries collected over $138.5 million, the highest monthly sales figure so far, just beating August…
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  • Lawsuit: Advantage Rental Car Employee at DIA Demanded $50, Rented Car Full of Pot

    7:44am By Toke of the Town
    A Miami man flew to Denver International Airport on a quest to buy a specific BMW, but he didn’t find a car. Instead, a lawsuit alleges, he was extorted for $50 by an Advantage Rent A Car employee and given a rental car with forty pounds of marijuana in the…
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  • Ask a Stoner: I’m Sick of Using the Terms “Indica” and “Sativa”

    Tue 6:20pm By Toke of the Town
    Dear Stoner: Are the terms “indica” and “sativa” even worth listening to anymore? I feel like some sativas make me sleepy and some indicas keep me wide awake. Pain Patient The post Ask a Stoner: I’m Sick of Using the Terms “Indica” and…
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  • Behind the CBD Scene With Boulder Botanical & Bioscience

    Tue 4:42pm By Toke of the Town
    The vast possibilities of hemp are emerging as the legal barriers to hemp-based products begin to disappear, and among those possibilities is manufacturing products not for consumers, but for other companies. While many businesses involved with hemp and CBD…
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  • Why Colorado Tokers Love Sour Amnesia

    Sep 12, 2018, 2:57 pm By Toke of the Town
    If cannabis has all this medical value, why do strain breeders continue to label it with names that sound like a disease? I don’t know about you, but I’d never want to come down with a case of Sour Amnesia — which sounds a lot like what most grumpy old…
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  • Cannabis Industry Reps Join in Colleague’s Cancer Fight

    Sep 11, 2018, 12:50 pm By Thomas Mitchell
    Cannabis has become a popular alternative treatment for cancer, but with one of its own fighting for his life, the legal pot industry has geared up to fight the disease on a different level. A member of that industry for five years, Jason Margolies was…
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  • Ranking Marijuana Industry Jobs by Paycheck

    Sep 11, 2018, 12:48 pm By Thomas Mitchell
    The legal marijuana industry is booming, according to a new report from one of commercial pot’s largest job recruiters. But which jobs are paying the most? In a recent analysis of the marijuana industry’s job and salary rates, Vangst, the self-proclaimed…
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  • Twelve Weed Strains That Could Help Cure Your Hangover

    Aug 31, 2018, 1:53 pm By Toke of the Town
    There’s nothing wrong with letting loose at the bar sometimes, but too many drinks tonight can lead to sharp headaches and a pukey stomach tomorrow. Especially in Colorado, where three IPAs can suck the moisture right out of you. Like the nurturing yin to…
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  • Why It’s So Hard to Figure Out the Real Dangers of Stoned Driving

    Aug 31, 2018, 1:47 pm By Thomas Mitchell
    Recent Colorado Department of Transportation figures show that stoned-driving fatalities went down from 2016 to 2017 for those over the legal intoxication limit but up in fatal crashes involving drivers who tested positive for any marijuana in their system,…
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  • R.I.P.: Five Dispensary Chains That Have Disappeared

    Aug 31, 2018, 7:47 am By Toke of the Town
    Talk to any cannabis business owners in Colorado today, and they’ll have something to say about consolidation. Some of them are doing the consolidating, while others are doing their best to not be eaten. They’re putting up a good fight: According to a…
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