Don’t Fear the Pot Shop – Coming to a Town Near You! I recently read a blog about a guy who was ranting about pot shops coming to his town. Of course, you would expect the typical well-refined anti-cannabis rhetoric spewed by people who don’t understand the first thing about…
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A Grand Junction area trustee has announced that he is resigning less than 48 hours after winning the election. Jesse Loughman says he is giving up the Palisade office so he can keep his five marijuana licenses. He owns Palisade’s only retail and medical marijuana…
LOS ANGELES — Nipton’s new swimming hole is under construction, booze is returning to the restaurant and lottery tickets are being sold again at the ghost town’s general store. But it likely will be some time before those buds of green and gold that tokers really want are lining the…
LOS ANGELES — Could plans to turn an old California ghost town into a marijuana mecca be going up in smoke? Cannabis technology company American Green, which bought Nipton for $ 5 million last year, has sold it to another company for $ 7.7 million, acknowledging it struggled to raise…
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Steamboat Springs police still are not releasing any details related to a March 4 burglary at the Billo marijuana store. Plywood covers a window Monday at the Billo marijuana store in the Curve Plaza commercial center in west Steamboat Springs. (Matt Stensland, Steamboat Today) “I appreciate the…
Published: Dec 19, 2017, 10:29 am • Updated: Dec 19, 2017, 10:29 am By Kimberlee Kruesi, The Associated Press BOISE, Idaho — A small-business owner with hopes of selling oil extracted from cannabis plants in staunchly anti-marijuana Idaho has found himself in conflict with local officials who say such products…
Published: Nov 14, 2017, 2:54 pm • Updated: Nov 14, 2017, 4:06 pm By Matt Stensland, Steamboat Today STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Steamboat Springs marijuana sales are still on track to surpass $ 10 million this year, but for the first time there have been two consecutive months that have only…
Published: Oct 12, 2017, 12:28 pm • Updated: Oct 12, 2017, 12:53 pm By The Associated Press PALISADE, Colo. — Fourteen Potential Colorado marijuana business owners put their names in a lottery for the opportunity to open a retail marijuana store in Palisade. The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel reports the…
Published: Oct 2, 2017, 2:44 pm • Updated: Oct 2, 2017, 3:32 pm By Courtney Tompkins, Long Beach Press-Telegram Officials often boast about doing things the Long Beach way, and Thursday’s lottery drawing for medical marijuana licenses was no different. Shortly after 9 a.m., officials kicked off a process inside…
Published: Sep 27, 2017, 8:45 am • Updated: Sep 27, 2017, 8:45 am By John Fryar, Longmont Times-Call Longmont City Council members, on a split 5-2 vote, gave preliminary approval Tuesday night to an ordinance that would eventually allow up to four businesses to sell marijuana and marijuana products within…