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.
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Baca: Jeff Sessions is just plain wrong about weed
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.

Colorado marijuana shops sold more than $1 billion of cannabis in first 10 months of 2016
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
Nobody expected Election Day to yield such overwhelmingly positive results for legal cannabis.

Denver social pot measure too close to call
Colorado’s legal marijuana system isn’t without its paradoxes. Near the top of that list is public consumption, or “social use,” as it¶¶Ňőap come to be known — and Initiative 300...

Initiative 300: Everything you need to know about Denver’s social cannabis use measure
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
Willie Nelson sat down with editor of the Cannabist, Ricardo Baca.

With “Mary +Jane,” weed is finally a laughing matter on TV
As new states, territories and entire nations legalize cannabis — and as the conversation surrounding legal weed becomes more normalized — the more marijuana settles into the mainstream experience.

Jack Splitt, the teenager who changed Colorado medical pot law, dies
Jack Splitt, whose fight with cerebral palsy opened Colorado school doors to medical marijuana treatments, died Wednesday. He was 15.

750 parties later, Lipgloss rethinks its Denver club nights
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
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.