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  • Why Colorado Tokers Love Do-Si-Dos

    Mar 30, 2018, 11:28 am By Toke of the Town
    Add this year’s Girl Scout cookies season to a long list of blown opportunities for me. I walked by more than a dozens stands of Thin Mints, Tagalongs and Do-si-dos outside of grocery stores, breweries and even pot shops, but I kept abstaining, confident…
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  • Will Cannabis Employees Finally Be Allowed to Get Free Samples?

    Mar 30, 2018, 8:30 am By Toke of the Town
    When buying cannabis from a dispensary, asking the employees what they think of the product is common practice. But to be able to answer those questions honestly, the employees must sample the product first — and none of those samples are free. Because of…
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  • Blue Moon Founder Wants to Create THC-Infused Craft Beer

    Mar 29, 2018, 1:32 pm By Toke of the Town
    Keith Villa was working at Coors Brewing in 1995 when he created an unfiltered, Belgian-style beer that became the inspiration for the Blue Moon Brewing Company, which got its start as a special division in Golden and soon spread to locations at Coors Field…
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  • Wealthy Cannabis Consumers Would Rather Smoke at Home

    Mar 29, 2018, 12:28 pm By Toke of the Town
    After years of sitting on the sidelines, Colorado’s state lawmakers and local regulators are finally starting to address the issue of social cannabis consumption. Denver’s first licensed cannabis consumption lounge opened its doors earlier this month,…
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  • Colorado Pot Revenue Shows No Signs of Slowing in 2018

    Mar 28, 2018, 8:32 am By Toke of the Town
    Colorado’s cannabis industry has new competition from California and other states, but that hasn’t seemed to affect sales here. According to the Colorado Department of Revenue, dispensaries collected nearly $118 million in January 2018, up more than $10…
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  • Hulking Hemp: Using Cannabis to Elevate Your Nutrition

    Mar 27, 2018, 1:27 pm By Toke of the Town
    Heather DeRose realized she had to take a hard look at her lifestyle and eating habits after college. She was forty pounds overweight and routinely felt sick after eating. A doctor told her she was allergic to eggs, dairy and wheat, which she found on the…
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  • Final Budget Bill Fails to Include Protection for Recreational Marijuana

    Mar 27, 2018, 12:27 pm By Toke of the Town
    Back in February, Cory Gardner and Michael Bennet were among the eighteen senators who urged the Senate Committee on Appropriations to “respect states’ laws regarding the regulation of marijuana.” But this week, those laws didn’t get any respect. In…
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  • Study: Too Many Cannabis Industry Employees Get High at Work

    Mar 22, 2018, 7:01 am By Toke of the Town
    A new study of Colorado’s legal cannabis industry found that most of its employees were high on their jobs, but also concluded that a sizable portion of those employees were high at their jobs. Conducted by the Colorado State University Department of…
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  • Why Colorado Tokers Love Granola Funk

    Mar 21, 2018, 11:01 am By Toke of the Town
    Granola Funk isn’t a jam band that opens for Phish or Umphrey’s McGee, but it might be in the same ballpark. The potent hybrid’s name could easily double as a new genre of yuppie psychedelic music taking over the Front Range, and its characteristics are…
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  • Blast From the Past: Ten Hilarious Anti-Marijuana Commercials

    Mar 16, 2018, 11:57 am By Toke of the Town
    America’s history of being wrong-headed about cannabis is well-documented on a variety of platforms, but the funniest way to examine it today is on YouTube. Host to a wide range of entertaining lunacy, YouTube’s rabbit holes can lead down some weird…
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  • Trump Tax Cuts Will Lead to Pot Industry Hiring Rush, Study Predicts

    Mar 15, 2018, 1:57 pm By Toke of the Town
    When President Donald Trump implemented the sweeping 2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, most of America wasn’t concerned with how it’d affect the legal cannabis industry. But a recent study from New Frontier Data, an analytics firm serving the legal cannabis…
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  • Why Colorado Tokers Love Hercules

    Mar 15, 2018, 11:57 am By Toke of the Town
    For most generations, Hercules (or Heracles, if you want to get technical) denotes strength and resiliency. But for mine, he was a cartoon taking orders from a minotaur voiced by Danny DeVito, or a loud kid who made childhood obesity funny in The Nutty…
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  • Ask a Stoner: Can I Make Cannabutter With My Instant Pot?

    Mar 14, 2018, 8:34 am By Toke of the Town
    Dear Stoner: My pot-hating roommate just got an Instapot, and she won’t shut up about it. How can I make weed butter in this thing? El Barto The post Ask a Stoner: Can I Make Cannabutter With My Instant Pot? appeared first on Toke of the Town.
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  • Denver Dispensaries Collected Over Half a Billion Dollars in 2017

    Mar 13, 2018, 1:33 pm By Toke of the Town
    Denver accounted for a major portion of the $1.5 billion worth of legal cannabis sold in Colorado in 2017. Over a third of the state’s total sales were made in the Mile High City, according to the Colorado Department of Revenue. The DOR breaks down…
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  • Drug Free America Believes Legal Weed Exploits the Opioid Epidemic

    Mar 12, 2018, 12:52 pm By Toke of the Town
    Advocates often say that legal marijuana has the potential to combat America’s opioid crisis, but anti-pot groups are claiming just the opposite. In a recent letter sent to legislators in states with forms of legal marijuana, drug-prevention organization…
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