Colorado

While much has been reported about cannabis oversupply in Oregon, Colorado has also seen (lesser) price declines. As Oregon saw a 64% decline in wholesale prices from October 2016 to March 2019, Colorado experienced a 60% drop from January 2015 to April 2019. The downward slides in wholesale...

By J.J. McCoy, Senior Managing Editor, New Frontier Data For the first time in five years of Colorado's coexisting, legalized adult-use and medical cannabis markets, recreational sales more than doubled medical sales in 2018, according to state regulators' figures. Colorado rolled out its...

  A huge blizzard continues its destructive path today (March 14) across the nation's heartland, after a brutal hit in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska on Wednesday. Heavy snowfall, record-breaking winds and whiteout conditions became dangerous and deadly. The storm was even hard to handle...

Investors of General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) seem to have preferred locking in profit after the company delivered a 5 percent drop in sales for August. The company claimed the sales number was in line with the industry trend. Earlier, Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) reported a similar drop of 8.4...

On Wednesday, September 16, Colorado's marijuana enthusiasts will enjoy a one-day tax holiday in which the state's 10 percent tax on cannabis products will be repealed. The prospect of buying tax-free pot has the state's drug users gearing up for a shopping spree and has prompted...

Although Colorado was one of the first states to legalize recreational marijuana, the state is still struggling with laws that prevent people from smoking it in public places. However, as marijuana tourism grows throughout the state, hotels and bars are considering a new law that would allow...

A grant from Warren Buffett's Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation has helped dramatically reduce teenage pregnancies in the state of Colorado. According to The New York Times, a donation from Buffett has allowed the state to provide thousands of women with free intrauterine devices, which serve as...

Now that Colorado is in its second year with a legalized marijuana trade, the industry is on the rise as new products, growers and dispensaries flourish. With this market growth has come a surprising downward trend in marijuana prices, according to a new survey by Convergex. Pot Prices...

Colorado stands as a shining example of just how beneficial the marijuana industry can be for state governments. The state's recreational marijuana sales were taxed at a staggering 28 percent, resulting in nearly $60 million worth of tax dollars this year. While that figure is below initial...

Editor's note on July 28, 2015: Dr. Marlon Fuller is no longer affiliated with BudgetWeed.com. BudgetWeed.com is a Charlotte, North Carolina-based cannabis industry product and service locater. The website, according to its founder and CEO Dr. Marlon Fuller is “a fusion between Yelp and...

Colorado Approved The Largest State Funded MJ Resarch Grant Ever A new grant system in Colorado is handing out up to $9 million in funding for medical marijuana research. This will be the largest state funded research product on the plant, and Dr. Larry Wolk, executive director and chief...

New Study Links Casual Marijuana Use To Brain Abnormalities A study conducted at Northwestern University links casual, recreational marijuana use to abnormalities in key regions of the brain. The study, published in The Journal of Neuroscience, focused on 20 causal smokers and 20 non-smokers...

There are a lot of explanations for the stoner term, “420.” Some people say it represents 4:20 p.m., the time immediately after classes when a group of California high school students in the 1970s used to gather to get high. Whatever its origins, 420 has entered the U.S. lexicon as a reference...