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Alicia Wallace
Alicia Wallace is a former Denver Post business reporter who specialized in covering the cannabis industry.
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Federally legal hemp, a fruitful endeavor in Colorado, gets jolt from Republican Mitch McConnell
Colorado’s burgeoning hemp industry got a jolt Monday when Republican Mitch McConnell, the Senate’s Majority Leader, gave his full-throated support of shoring up federal laws around hemp.

Terrell Davis champions minority advancement in cannabis industry
Colorado's cannabis industry is overwhelmingly white.

Colorado’s New Belgium Brewery launches its own hemp beer line
New Belgium Brewery debuts The Hemperor HPA on April 2. The hemp pale ale blends hemp and hops for an earthy take on the traditional IPA and smells like, "a...

Jeff Sessions’ latest memo pushes prosecutors to seek the death penalty against big drug dealers. That could include legal marijuana business owners.
U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions' latest memo, pushing federal prosecutors to use the death penalty against large-scale drug traffickers, talks mostly about opioids. But it is possible -- though perhaps not...

CBD could soon be prescribed in Colorado pharmacies
A new bill would give GW Pharma a lane to sell Epidiolex in Colorado, but hemp growers worry it paves a "superhighway" to monopoly.

These Boulder entrepreneurs brought chai tea to the mainstream. Now, they hope to do the same with CBD.
Natural Products Expo West, the industry’s largest trade show, served as the coming out party for CBD and brands like Weller Snacks, makers of hemp extract-enriched coconut bites.

CBD debuts at world’s largest natural products trade show, heralded as “next big thing”
Cannabidiol stepped into the spotlight at Natural Products Expo West, where hemp industry experts said the U.S. CBD market could hit $1.9 billion by 2022.

Local drug enforcement agents conducting search warrants throughout metro Denver
Local drug enforcement agents and officers from the North Metro and West Metro Drug Task Forces are conducting search warrants throughout metro Denver Thursday morning.

Colorado cannabis firms could get publicly traded, out-of-state investors under proposed bill
A bill is advancing through the Colorado legislature that would open the doors for out-of-state individuals and publicly traded companies to invest or have ownership interest in state-licensed cannabis businesses.

Bill licensing marijuana “tasting rooms” introduced in Colorado legislature
"This bill will help make sure people aren't consuming more than they should and are doing it in an environment no different than what you would see at a winery...