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Cannabis

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A conversation with Cannabis Business Office’s Tristan Watkins

Grayson Acri, Cannabis Reporter • February 17, 2022

Cannabis is an exploding industry in Colorado. Last year, the cannabis market reached over $2.2 billion in sales — that’s more than triple its starting market in 2014. There’s plenty of breakneck-speed...

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Doctors frustrated with new medical cannabis regulations

Hayden Hawley, Cannabis Director • February 17, 2022

The Colorado Board of Health convened for a regular meeting on Wednesday to certify changes to the state’s official policies on medical cannabis, among other agenda items. These changes were created...

A billboard stands advertising Flower Power Botanicals Feb. 6.

Dispensaries work around strict advertising regulations

Lindsay Barker, Cannabis Reporter • February 8, 2022
Cannabis companies are extremely limited in what language and images they can use in advertising. In order to continue attracting customers, businesses have to devise creative alternative marketing strategies to skirt these laws.
A Cheba Hut employee takes a sandwich out of the toaster.

Cheba Hut: Free speech, the restaurant

Hayden Hawley, Cannabis Director • February 7, 2022
In its lifetime, Cheba Hut has grown from a local curiosity to the nation’s foremost weed-themed sub place.
Portrait of Chris Walsh

An alumnus’ path from CSU to CEO is paved with cannabis

Hayden Hawley, Cannabis Director • February 3, 2022

In 1995, a prominent cannabis media figure found his roots in a Colorado State University dorm room. Chris Walsh was in his room in Ingersoll Hall with a few friends.  “Ingersoll was for all the...

(Graphic Illustration by Chloe Leline | The Collegian)

How cannabis compounds prevent coronavirus infection

Hayden Hawley, Cannabis Director • January 27, 2022
The Oregon State University study, not conducted using any human test subjects, found that cannabigerolic acid (CBGA) and cannabidiolic acid (CBDA) bound to the spike proteins of live alpha and beta variant coronaviruses in a laboratory setting.
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Getting pamphlets with concentrate purchases? Here’s why

Lindsay Barker, Cannabis Reporter • January 26, 2022
Colorado dispensaries began handing out four-page paper pamphlets on Jan. 1 as the result of a law aimed at regulating cannabis concentrates and reducing teen accessibility to the product.
Ripple Sleep QuickGummies

Ripple Sleep QuickGummies live up to the name, not much else

Hayden Hawley, Cannabis Director • January 20, 2022

Ripple, a Denver-based producer of edible cannabis products, unveiled their Sleep QuickGummies this month, a THC and cannabinol-infused product meant to help people get a good night’s rest. It’s now...

Photo illustration of a Mouth Peace filter

A holiday gift guide for your stoner friends

Lindsay Barker, Cannabis Reporter • December 9, 2021

Don’t know what to get your weed-loving pal for the holidays? This gift guide has some fun suggestions for the stoner in your life. Selfies pre-rolls Whether for a seasoned stoner or a casual smoker,...

Front entrance of Green Dragon

Green Dragon spreads its wings in Larimer County

Hayden Hawley, Cannabis Director • December 2, 2021
Green Dragon, a Denver-based company, has rapidly expanded across Colorado in the past several years, this being its 16th location in the state. The company also plans to open over 20 Florida dispensaries in the coming year.
(Graphic Illustration by Falyn Sebastian | The Collegian)

Can you smoke weed and work for the City? Yes and no

Lindsay Barker, Cannabis Reporter • December 2, 2021
While cannabis legislation moves forward at a rapid pace, workplace drug testing policies are being revisited. About two years ago, the City of Fort Collins changed its policy from testing every City employee to only testing those in safety-sensitive positions.
Skye Norton works in the Kind Creations glass blowing shop Nov. 9. Norton moved to Colorado and has been blowing glass for the past 20 years. (Milo Gladstein | The Collegian)

Glassblowers in Fort Collins bring art to the cannabis industry

Lindsay Barker • November 11, 2021

Editor's Note: Read the Spanish version of this article here. Glassblowers are essential to the cannabis industry. Without their carefully crafted art, smoking cannabis would just be dull. Glassblowing...

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