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Colorado Senate gives final approval to historic marijuana bills [08-05-13] The Colorado Senate gave final approval to two new bills to implement marijuana legalization, inching the state legislature closer to becoming the fir...
Colorado pot collectives test limits of Amendment 64 [05-05-13] An untold number of recreational pot collectives have formed in Colorado since Amendment 64's passage in November, hoping to meet consumer demand...
Colorado House gives initial approval to marijuana tax measure [29-04-13] Colorado lawmakers tried to find the Goldilocks level for recreational marijuana taxes — an amount neither too high to discourage voters from approv...
Colorado lawmakers discussing marijuana-legalization repeal effort [26-04-13] A proposal that could lead to the repeal of marijuana legalization in Colorado has gained momentum at the state Capitol. The repeal would be linked to...
Marijuana legalization in Colorado may not pay for itself, study finds [26-04-13] Legal marijuana in Colorado may not bring in enough money to cover the societal costs of legalization, a study from a Colorado State University think ...
Colorado legislature unveils long-awaited marijuana regulation bills [19-04-13] Lawmakers introduced a long-awaited bill of proposed regulations for recreational marijuana, moving Colorado one step closer to a legal pot marketplac...
Denver's 4/20 pot parties a "coming out for cannabis" [15-04-13] Tens of thousands of people will attend Saturday's "4/20" rally in Denver, creating perhaps the largest collectively produced cloud of ...
Colorado lawmakers may let pot growers and sellers operate separately [09-04-13] Colorado lawmakers stood the state's current model for marijuana businesses on its head, endorsing a proposal that would allow recreational pot s...
Scathing audit throws Colorado recreational marijuana rules into chaos [28-03-13] Colorado's under-construction plan for regulating recreational marijuana nearly came unglued when lawmakers questioned whether the agency that wo...
Audit: Serious flaws in Colorado's regulation of medical marijuana [26-03-13] State regulators charged with watching over Colorado's medical marijuana industry have fallen short on everything from tracking inventory and man...
Medical marijuana dispensaries: High-tech tracking system unfulfilled [24-03-13] The technology was supposed to efficiently track medical marijuana from seed to sale — the catch-phrase that came to define Colorado's efforts to...
Colorado lawmakers question proposed marijuana business rules [21-03-13] Colorado lawmakers yanked and tugged at the threads of the state's proposals for regulating recreational marijuana, as one legislator hinted to h...
Marijuana regulation heads to Colorado Capitol [15-03-13] An ad-hoc committee of 10 House and Senate members started work reviewing 165 pages of recommended regulations from a task force that worked for more ...
Group forms to oppose Colorado marijuana stores [15-03-13] A citizens' group opposed to a large-scale recreational marijuana industry in Colorado has hired two powerhouse lobbyists in preparation for the ...
Seattle downplays likelihood of sending pot to Copenhagen [14-03-13] A Seattle city official has poured cold water on Co enhagen's idea of importing cannabis from the US. One of the elements of the city's prop...
Crack down on cannabis, world body tells U.S. [14-03-13] The United States must not turn a blind eye to the recreational use of cannabis in states that liberalize drug laws, the International Narcotics Con...
Holder says little about states’ pot laws; supporters buoyed [06-03-13] U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder declined to reveal the Obama administration’s long-awaited policy on legal recreational marijuana in Colorado and Wa...
Colorado medical-marijuana businesses have declined by 40 percent [03-03-13] In the summer of 2010, after legislators passed a law legitimizing dispensaries, there were 1,117 medical-marijuana businesses in Colorado. By the end...
Colorado pot task force recommends special sales and excise taxes [28-02-13] What Colorado will look like with legal marijuana became significantly clearer when the state task force proposing rules for that new world finished i...
Colorado task force ponders how to tax legal pot [28-02-13] The Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force regulators are working out the details of exactly how to tax legalized marijuana, so the benefits are share...
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A study in the August edition of The Journal of School Health finds that the generations old theory of a “gateway drug” effect is in fact accurate for some drug users, but shifts the blame for those addicts’ escalating substance abuse away from marijuana and onto the most pervasive and socially accepted drug in American life: alcohol.

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