Hi, it's us, Colorado. We were pioneers on the legal weed frontier, and subsequently got labeled the 'Mile High State.' Oh, we were already called that? Never mind.
Merle Haggard once sang "we don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee" and in years past it appears that the Okie from Muskogee changed his tune and took a few hits. A recreational strain developed by Merle himself will be coming to the Colorado cannabis market soon...
Colorado has become first again in the cannabis industry as state agriculture officials will show off the first domestic certified hemp seeds.
In 2014, Congress authorized hemp production and since then the Colorado Department of Agriculture has been working on producing hemp seeds that will produce plants that have a very low trace of THC that would classify the plant to be hemp and not marijuana
If you're considering getting into 'the biz' (I know I've thought about it), here are some dispensary names I wish were a thing. (Just contact me for rights.)
Uh oh, I opened the Urban Dictionary can of worms! While these five are (surprisingly) cleaner than other 'Colorado' terms I found, they're still pretty funny.
There are many career opportunities throughout the state of Colorado, and this Thursday you'll be able to check out a job fair that could potentially lead you to a career in the booming Colorado marijuana industry!
An entire Colorado town is being told not to drink, cook, or bathe using local water due to evidence that it's contaminated with THC, the psychoactive element of marijuana.