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Live coverage from 4/20 in Colorado, from the block to the Capitol

April 20, 2018 at 10:44 a.m.

Here鈥檚 how people are celebrating and commemorating April 20, 2018, the unofficial annual marijuana holiday, across Colorado -- and all the way to Capitol Hill. From the Mile High 420...

Isaac Dietrich, CEO of MassRoots, works at his office in Denver, CO on January 22, 2015. (Photo By Craig F. Walker / The Denver Post)

Marijuana tech firm MassRoots reports net loss of $44 million in 2017

April 17, 2018 at 5:50 p.m.

More than $22 million of those losses were the value of stock-based compensation to former employees, board members and business consultants.The post MassRoots reports net loss of $44 million in...

New Colorado border-town marijuana dispensary concerns Utah Highway Patrol

April 9, 2018 at 1:28 p.m.

Utah officials are wary after the first marijuana shop opened in the tiny town of Dinosaur, Colorado, just a few miles from the state line.

California cannabis company receives historic $1 million insurance payout following fire

April 5, 2018 at 10:54 a.m.

A Southern California cannabis cultivator received a payout of well over $1 million from an unnamed insurance carrier in Great Britain, for crop damages that the grower suffered during the...

Some of the cast of "Mary Janes: Women In Weed" at the film's Denver premiere.

Colorado’s “Women of Weed” steal the spotlight in new documentary

March 7, 2018 at 10:14 a.m.

The pioneers shaping Colorado's $1.5 billion cannabis industry are ready for their closeup. Nearly half of the 33 entrepreneurs featured in new documentary, "Mary Janes: The Women of Weed", are...

Meredith Wharton, 25, works at The Coffee Joint in Denver, Friday, Feb. 9, 2018. The business' owners made an initial public pitch to the city Friday to be among the first legal marijuana clubs. The business only serves snacks and coffee currently, but its owners want to create a space where people can vape or use edible marijuana.

How Denver rolls out social use marijuana licenses will guide Las Vegas laws in 2019

March 6, 2018 at 2:05 p.m.

"We need to figure out what impact these lounges will have on our community. We want to use Denver as a threshold to monitor what happens."

Non-U.S. citizens advised to stay away from jobs in Colorado marijuana industry

February 17, 2018 at 10:38 a.m.

The situation isn't just a dilemma for immigrants, but also for the cannabis companies that would like to hire them.

A welcome sign greets customers at the Coffee Joint in Denver on Feb. 9, 2018.

City of Denver attorney recommends licensing of first legal marijuana club

February 15, 2018 at 6:03 p.m.

The city's top licensing regulator has the final say on issuing the permit, however.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., is one of the co-authors of an amendment to the federal spending bill that protects state medical marijuana laws.

Feds working on new marijuana banking guidance, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin tells Congress

February 15, 2018 at 1:08 p.m.

"I can tell you that it's at the top of the list and we're working on it as we speak," Mnuchin told Oregon Rep. Earl Blumenauer.

Nic Ruhl, 27, of Golden lights up as the haze from the 420 smokeout in Denver.

Marijuana’s 4/20 holiday tied to rise in fatal car crashes

February 13, 2018 at 6:57 a.m.

Researchers analyzed U.S. government data on fatal traffic accidents from 1992 through 2016. They compared driver deaths on that date with deaths on a day the week before and the...

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