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The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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Barker: Cannabis can benefit mental health, should not be stigmatized

Barker: Cannabis can benefit mental health, should not be stigmatized

Lindsay Barker, Cannabis Reporter March 2, 2022
I have a hyperactive, anxiety-prone brain and a mood disorder, and consuming cannabis makes these things more tolerable. It helps me organize my thoughts and actually focus on the task at hand. 
Dry soil cracks at a corn field at Fritzler Farm Park in La Salle, Colorado Sept. 18, 2019.

Fields and floods: Grassland research on precipitation extremes

Noah Pasley, News Editor March 2, 2022

Colorado State University researchers will soon launch a project that will study the effects of extreme drought on grasslands particular to northeastern Colorado. The team, led by biology department...

Fort Collins City Hall is located at 300 Laporte Avenue Nov. 8, 2020.

Larimer County’s Climate Smart initiative needs community feedback

Isabel Brown, News Reporter February 24, 2022

Editor’s Note: Read the Spanish version of this article here. As the effects of climate change become more and more apparent, Larimer County has formed the Climate Smart Larimer County initiative...

(Graphic Illustration by Dylan Tuskinski | The Collegian)

NFTs mine their way into the cannabis industry

Grayson Acri, Cannabis Reporter February 24, 2022

In the name of transparency, the author of this article has holdings in $GUSD, $ETH, $MATIC and $ATOM cryptocurrencies. A new partnership between cryptocurrency and cannabis has been budding.  Cannabis...

Courtesy of Tristan Watkins

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...

A photo illustration of someone smoking marijuana concentrate out of their dab rig.

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.
A photo illustration of the new pamphlet handed out when purchasing marijuana concentrate

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.
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