Fort Collins residents are no strangers to waking up with scratchy throats from poor air quality. Fort Collins was recently ranked the 17th-worst city in terms of high ozone days, according to a new report from the American Lung Association, bypassing its 2020 placement of 19th-worst.
“The primary sources contributing to ground-level ozone pollution are oil and gas and transportation,” Lea Schneider, Larimer County environmental health planner, wrote in an email to The Collegian.
Jeffrey Pierce, a professor at Colorado State University's department of atmospheric science, explained that nitrogen oxide from car pollution mixes with volatile organic compounds leaked from the oil and gas industry in Colorado on hot days, creating the ozone we experience in Fort Collins.
One of the best parts about consuming cannabis is the fun gadgets and accessories that go along with it. I have a collection of different tools I like to use to make smoking easier, healthier and more...
Colorado State University recently partnered with stakeholders and scientists from seven other schools in a $15 million research project. This project centers on bridging the gap between growing urban...
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Colorado voters will decide whether or not to raise recreational cannabis taxes by 5% this November.
This would be in addition to...
Verde Natural is a Colorado-based cultivation company with roots in Humboldt County, California, that produces award-winning cannabis and grows it in a very unique way: with living soil.
What exactly...
Fort Collins is a city of growth and opportunity but has yet to take advantage of the cannabis delivery and cannabis hospitality laws signed by Gov. Jared Polis in 2019.
Social consumption spaces...
VETCBD, a California manufacturer of cannabidiol products for animals, announced a new scholarship for veterinary and veterinary technician students.
VETCBD has been making cannabidiol products for...
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and state Attorney General Phil Weiser wrote letters to United States congressional leaders urging them to legalize cannabis at the federal level quickly and cautiously.
Researchers at Colorado State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital are conducting a study on the efficacy of cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive component in cannabis, on osteoarthritis in dogs.
For a first-time cannabis user, all of the products available may seem overwhelming. There seems to be a smoke shop around every corner in Fort Collins, and each one is filled with different pipes,...
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