Article by Alicia Wallace, The Denver Post Halfway through 2016, Colorado’s employment growth is meeting expectations and the economy continues to outperform the nation: Employment is growing faster here, housing is hotter and incomes are higher, according to a report released Thursday by the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business. And Colorado’s fledgling marijuana industry — which, in the grand ...

Article by Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun Kevin Biernacki of The Grove dispensary has been a marijuana grower for nearly two decades. The 48-year-old Clark High graduate learned the tricks of the trade while living in Humboldt County, Calif., a place where he said a third of the area’s working adults are involved in the industry. Now, Biernacki oversees what ...

Article by John Ingold, The Denver Post. In April, the DEA told lawmakers in a letter that it was reviewing information on rescheduling and “hopes to release its determination in the first half of 2016.” That hope ended when June did, and a DEA spokesman in Washington, D.C., told The Denver Post late last week that there is no update on the ...

Article by Tess Owen, Vice News The scene in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon resembled something from a bad horror movie. Dozens of people were seen convulsing, lying on the sidewalk, doubled over fire hydrants, and stuck frozen and contorted in strange positions. One bystander described it as “Zombieland.” The small-scale zombie apocalypse was reportedly caused by the drug ...

Article by Davide Mastracci, Vice News Italy is about to begin a national debate about legalizing marijuana, and one senior official is promising that, should the country forge ahead in regulating and taxing pot, it could be a blow to the Islamic State and the mafia at the same time. Legislation will be introduced in the Italian parliament next week ...

Article by Dennis Romero, LA Weekly Generally, one of the biggest opponents of marijuana legalization in California is the law enforcement profession — but that’s not without at least one big exception. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), which describes itself as “a group of police, judges, prosecutors and other criminal justice professionals advocating for marijuana legalization,” this week endorsed Proposition ...

Article by Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post There’s a body of research showing that painkiller abuse and overdose are lower in states with medical marijuana laws. These studies have generally assumed that when medical marijuana is available, pain patients are increasingly choosing pot over powerful and deadly prescription narcotics. But that’s always been just an assumption. Now a new study, released ...

Article by Chris Weigantm, Huffington Post The end of the federal government’s War On Weed is approaching fast. No matter how the details work out, that much seems pretty clear at this point. What began roughly 100 years ago as a racist legislative overreaction to Latino workers’ preferred method of relaxing — and was then ramped up (under Richard Nixon) ...

Article by Robbie Gonzalez, Wired News People who would rather ingest marijuana than smoke it have plenty of options. You can buy weed-infused pasta sauce, chewing gum, beef jerky… even vegan caviar. The edibles market is big. And this November, voters in California and several other states will decide whether to legalize the recreational use of pot—which means it’s poised ...

Article by Erik Shilling, Atlas Obscura Some marijuana growers in California are finally going to prison. Or, at least, a former one, after the Coalinga, California City Council voted recently to approve selling the city’s vacant jail to a cultivator of marijuana oil—for the low price of $4.1 million, according to the Fresno Bee. The cultivating company, known as Ocean Grown Extracts, ...