Colorado Cannabis News

Colorado’s new medical cannabis rules, which take effect starting January 1, include stricter cannabis purchase limits for patients and a ban on marketing medical cannabis to people under age 21.

Colorado voters rejected a proposal to raise cannabis taxes in the state as part of a plan to create an independent education agency.

Colorado cultivators grew 1.8 million pounds of cannabis last year, a 24% increase from 2019.

Crain Communications announced this week it is acquiring the cannabis industry news site Green Market Report.

Global Hemp Group Inc has acquired 664 acres of land in Hayden, Colorado to build affordable housing with hemp-based materials over the next 25 years.

Pueblo County, Colorado is awarding more than $2 million in cannabis excise sales tax scholarships to local institutions, including $1 million to Pueblo Community College.

The Community College of Denver has launched a cannabis business degree program that offers students an opportunity to earn an Associate of Applied Science.

A Colorado criminal justice report showed a 68% decline in cannabis-related arrests since legalization, but arrest rates for Black people are still more than double those of white people.

A medical cannabis patient is suing Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) over the medical cannabis reform package signed by the governor last month.

A new bill signed by Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday limits the amount of concentrate adult medical cannabis patients can buy in one day and places new rules on patients who are younger than 21-years-old.

The initiative would raise the state’s cannabis excise tax to fill the pandemic-related education funding gap.

Adult-use cannabis legalization in the U.S. has generated nearly $8 billion in tax revenue for the states that have passed the reforms.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has signed legislation into law to double personal cannabis possession limits and expand criminal justice reforms in the state.

A Colorado bill is seeking to reduce the amount of concentrates that medical cannabis patients ages 18-20 can purchase in an effort to prevent the diversion of such products to Colorado’s youth.

Two people were indicted by the Department of Justice last week for their involvement in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme involving fake cattle trades and a Colorado cannabis business.

Colorado cannabis regulators have banned hemp-derived and synthetic forms of THC, including Delta-8 and Delta-10 THC, from being sold in licensed dispensaries.

The city of Denver is set to license new cannabis businesses for the first time since 2016 but new applicants must meet the city’s social equity requirements, and some neighborhoods will be excluded as they are already oversaturated with cannabis businesses.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill allowing K-12 schools to store and administer non-smokable medical cannabis products to student patients.

As New Mexico prepares for its adult-use cannabis program, experts predict it could disrupt parts of the Colorado cannabis industry that benefited from New Mexico residents who came to purchase regulated cannabis products.

Denver officials approved new rules this week establishing cannabis delivery and consumption lounges in the city. The programs are expected to be fully implemented by July.

The City Council in Denver, Colorado is poised to approve regulations establishing cannabis delivery, retail social equity licensing, and new social consumption options in the city.

Colorado is holding auctions for several cannabis-themed license plates as a fundraiser to benefit the Colorado Disability Funding Committee; auctioned plates include SATIVA, GANJA, ISIT420, TEGRIDY, and more.

Steve Fox, the lead drafter of Colorado’s historic legalization initiative approved by voters in 2012, has died at age 53.