Tag: Marijuana
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GUEST COLUMN: Heed Colorado’s mistakes; don’t ‘reschedule’ pot
By Caroline Jordan When Coloradans voted to legalize recreational cannabis in 2012 with Amendment 64, I was 14 years old. As a freshman in high school, I was among the first generation of teens to experience the reality of legal weed. It put Colorado on the map as the place where Americans came to get…
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EDITORIAL: When our highways are paved with pot
Society once vilified marijuana. Later generations of hipsters laughed off the stigma. Now, mounting evidence has brought things full circle — vindicating the psychoactive drug’s original critics after all. Today’s high-potency pot — legalized for recreational use in Colorado in 2012 and in over two dozen other states since then — is leaving a trail…
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Texas man arrested for allegedly threatening NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani
NEW YORK — A Texas man has been arrested for leaving multiple expletive-laden threats via voicemail and email to kill New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, authorities said Thursday. Jeremy Fistel, 43, was arraigned in Queens Criminal Supreme Court on charges of threatening Mamdani in three expletive-laden calls in June and July and via…
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FBI issues $100,000 reward for allegedly armed protester at Camarillo pot farm raid
LOS ANGELES — The FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of a man believed to have fired a gun at officers during a chaotic immigration sweep at a Camarillo pot farm. The federal law enforcement agency doubled its reward for a man who it said was…
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Meth burn by FBI smokes out Montana animal shelter
Workers at a Montana animal shelter were evacuated and sent to the hospital after smoke from two pounds of methamphetamine incinerated by FBI agents started to fill the building
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TEAMSTERS STRIKE GREEN THUMB INDUSTRIES OVER UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICES
Cannabis Workers Demand Equal Pay and Respect as Company Profits Soar YORK, Pa., Sept. 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Workers at Local 776 in York, Pa., are on an Unfair Labor Practice (ULP) strike against RISE Dispensary, a subsidiary of Green Thumb Industries (GTI), for bargaining in bad faith. The strike comes after members unanimously rejected…
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Former Weld County girls basketball coach convicted of sexually assaulting players
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Weld County jury convicted a former girl’s basketball coach Friday on charges related to sexually assaults on three of his players over the course of a decade. George Sagner, 33, was found guilty of several charges including three counts of sexual assault on a…
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Rocky Mountain scientific survey reveals young adults have highest psychedelic substance use
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A report presented on Tuesday during the Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Safety’s annual scientific meeting showed that young adults have the highest use of psychedelic substances of any age demographic. Nearly 8% of the adults who reported using at least one psychedelic substance in…
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Denver-based documentary aims to raise awareness of ‘cannabis-induced psychosis’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Samuel Yeager began consuming marijuana after he turned 15. At only 23, he was dead — killed in an armed standoff with authorities. Yeager was dropped off alongside Interstate 25 during what his family described as a marijuana-induced psychotic episode before a Douglas County deputy shot…
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Denver teacher accused of giving marijuana brownies to middle schoolers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Denver middle school teacher is facing allegations that she gave marijuana-infused brownies to two boys who won a writing contest in her classroom last year. The teacher, who 9News is not identifying at this time, taught language arts at Kepner Beacon Middle School. She faces two…