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Times stokes cloud of controversy over Breck pot vote

Breckenridge, the quaint Victorian mountain town at the base of the state’s most popular ski area, suddenly is known around the nation as the...

Sticky bud, green energy get nod from Colorado ski-country voters

Things just got a whole lot greener in Colorado’s high country. Voters in Breckenridge overwhelmingly backed the decriminalization of small amounts of marijuana and paraphernalia...

Greeley mayor intent on giving city pot revenue to Fort Collins

Nine years ago, the citizens of Colorado voted to make medical marijuana legal. The federal government for years ignored state laws by continuing to...

Forest Service warns Coloradans: Beware of camping Latinos

In a presentation on recent discoveries of major marijuana-cultivation operations in Colorado, the U.S. Forest Service said it suspected an international cartel was behind...

News Nuggets: 12 August 2009

Dug up fresh, daily. WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? Gubernatorial candidate Scott McInnis didn't give leftover campaign money from his aborted senate run to charity....

Marijuana advocates converge on Boulder to “liberate the leaf”

Today is April 20th, or 4/20, the so-called High Holiday organized to advance legalization of marijuana in the U.S. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) hosted a forum at the University of Colorado Boulder this weekend and is following with the annual "smoke out" on Norlin Quadrangle at 4:20 p.m. today, which is expected to draw thousands.

Calling fines ‘too harsh,’ Colorado town cuts marijuana penalties in half

Marijuana smokers in Federal Heights — town motto: Reaching Great Heights — will face lighter penalties when they reach a little higher, The Denver Post reports Monday. The town's City Council last week cut the maximum fine for pot smokers caught with an ounce or less of the herb from $1,000 to $500 and did away with the possibility of jail time.

Two more states go ‘green’ as Mass., Mich. ease marijuana laws

In results that underline a national trend, Massachusetts and Michigan voters approved easing marijuana laws on Tuesday.

‘Marijuana boot camp’ planned to keep post-election activism high

In an effort to keep citizens politically involved after the election, activists supporting marijuana legalization will be holding an all-day symposium to train attendees on how to organize pro-legalization efforts in their areas.

Reporter Speaks on DEA Organized Crime Claims

Earlier in April, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration claimed in a TV news broadcast that campaigns to legalize marijuana in Denver and throughout the...
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