Ricardo Baca

Marijuana Editor

Ricardo Baca

Ricardo Baca is the editor of The Cannabist. After 12 years as The Denver Post's music critic and a couple more as the paper's entertainment editor, he was tapped to become The Post's first ever marijuana editor and create The Cannabist in late-2013. Baca also founded music blog Reverb and co-founded music festival The UMS.

Baca: Jeff Sessions is just plain wrong about weed

April 14, 2017 at 3:14 p.m.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions remains stuck in the past. His arguments about cannabis spring from a politically motivated drug war. Current science debunks his warnings.

Holly Kinnel straightens out the display case at the The Clinic

Colorado marijuana shops sold more than $1 billion of cannabis in first 10 months of 2016

December 13, 2016 at 9:05 a.m.

In the first 10 months of 2016, Colorado marijuana shops reached a significant milestone they had barely missed in all of 2015: $1 billion in legal, regulated cannabis sales.

Baca: Pot legalization steams ahead

November 11, 2016 at 2:13 p.m.

Nobody expected Election Day to yield such overwhelmingly positive results for legal cannabis.

Recreational marijuana is sold at High Country Healing in Silverthorne on Jan. 1, 2014.

Denver social pot measure too close to call

November 8, 2016 at 10:13 p.m.

Colorado鈥檚 legal marijuana system isn鈥檛 without its paradoxes. Near the top of that list is public consumption, or 鈥渟ocial use,鈥� as it抖阴ap come to be known 鈥� and Initiative 300...

A man exhales marijuana smoke at Ibake, a pot club in Englewood. A measure on the Nov. 8 ballot would, if it passes, allow businesses in Denver to apply for permits to let customers bring and consume their own marijuana.

Initiative 300: Everything you need to know about Denver’s social cannabis use measure

November 13, 2016 at 1:03 p.m.

As Denver voters prepare to vote on Initiative 300, we break down the social pot use measure. What's it do? Arguments for and against. Who supports, who doesn't?

Willie Nelson: The Outlaw Country legend reflects on his personal cannabis history

November 17, 2021 at 1:28 p.m.

Willie Nelson sat down with editor of the Cannabist, Ricardo Baca.

This image released by MTV shows Scout Durwood, left, and Jessica Rothe in a scene from "Mary + Jane," a comedy about two gal pals who run a marijuana delivery service in Los Angeles. The series premieres on Sept. 5. (Katrina Marcinowski/MTV via AP)

With “Mary +Jane,” weed is finally a laughing matter on TV

September 1, 2016 at 9:33 p.m.

As new states, territories and entire nations legalize cannabis 鈥� and as the conversation surrounding legal weed becomes more normalized 鈥� the more marijuana settles into the mainstream experience.

Jack Splitt, 15, (Center), and his mother Stacey Linn, are their home in Lakewood after Jack's first day of the school year. Jack, a student at Wheat Ridge High School who has cerebral palsy, is allowed to wear to school a skin patch delivering a cannabis-derived treatment. Jack's Law, House Bill 1373, permit parents or another designated caregiver to administer a non-smokable cannabis treatment on school grounds to a student who is a registered medical marijuana patient.

Jack Splitt, the teenager who changed Colorado medical pot law, dies

October 2, 2016 at 4:37 p.m.

Jack Splitt, whose fight with cerebral palsy opened Colorado school doors to medical marijuana treatments, died Wednesday. He was 15.

A party at Lipgloss, which will change from a weekly to a monthly dance party in the coming weeks.

750 parties later, Lipgloss rethinks its Denver club nights

August 18, 2016 at 11:40 a.m.

While most DJ nights come and go, Lipgloss somehow became a Denver institution, an important part of the city's independent fabric as well as a nationally recognized force.

750 parties later, Lipgloss rethinks the Denver club night

November 17, 2021 at 1:28 p.m.

A talk with Lipgloss founder Michael Trundle on the future of Lipgloss, including its move from a weekly to a monthly party, and club culture at large.

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