Almost 17% of regulated marijuana business owners in Colorado identify as minorities, according to new data by the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division, but one Black entrepreneur contests that there’s much more work to be done.

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With substances like marijuana increasingly playing a role in impaired driving crashes, a string of law enforcement officials and their allies on Tuesday urged lawmakers to expand the tools available to rein in drugged motorists.

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A 36-year-old Boston man will do time for illegal marijuana dealing and falsifying his taxes after failing to pay more than $150,000 in income taxes.

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New research showing cannabis compounds could blunt the virus that causes COVID-19 can really toke one's breath away.

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In 2016, Massachusetts became the first state east of the Mississippi River to legalize adult-use cannabis. Five years later, we have fallen asleep at the wheel when it comes to updating the state’s ineffective OUI laws against drugged driving.

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DENVER -- Inside a small garage near Golden is another potential budding American success story.

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"We’re creating an entirely new class of cannabis professional. Something that doesn’t exist in the industry today, to be a voice for true quality." Derek Gilman

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"I don’t see any reason why we wouldn’t have our annuals by now. We’ve filled out all the forms. We’ve done everything.

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At least one lender has opened the door to buying, refinancing and pulling cash out if your income comes from the marijuana industry

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Elevating your dishes means something different when you incorporate this very special ingredient on Thanksgiving.

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Stoned driving legislation has been a steady companion of sports betting bills on the Massachusetts Legislature’s back burner, where the flame is barely lit.

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Colorado will impose stricter rules for the purchase of medical marijuana starting Jan. 1 following several months of deliberation over how to execute a new state law meant largely to limit young people's access to and abuse of high-potency THC products.

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Gov. Charlie Baker, frustrated by lawmakers' inaction more than five years after the legalization of recreational pot, is making a second attempt to cut down on stoned driving.

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Medical marijuana, used to treat everything from chronic pain to Parkinson’s Disease to PTSD, is still not covered by medical insurance, a cost some say is prohibitively expensive to patients who rely on the drug.

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A group of religious and civic leaders plans to voice their opposition next week  to a proposed marijuana warehouse and courier service in Grove Hall, a neighborhood made up predominantly of people of color.

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A Boston-area pot company that with much aplomb hired former state Rep. Marie St. Fleur and onetime Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Amy McNamee to run its operation apparently has had a spectacular falling out with the pair, who are now suing on allegations that the weed investors didn't pay them.

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Some businesses have trimmed their hours, changed the way they serve customers, or hiked wages and sweetened benefits to entice applicants as the pandemic-influenced job market reshapes itself.

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Go light up the ballot box then head to Native Roots to get this fire deal.

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Thousands of spectators will line Boylston Street in Boston on Monday for the running of the Boston Marathon, just like I did on a sunny afternoon in 2013.

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Farmers who say they have been boxed out of the lucrative cannabis industry due to the high costs of entry were confronted by police as they protested a so-called “Cannabis Farmers Market” event at a Worcester dispensary over the weekend.

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Broomfield has suspended a lottery it was scheduled to hold this month to award three retail marijuana licenses after the county received "considerable feedback" about who was applying and whether they were playing by the rules.

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"It's a huge public health risk," says an official dedicated to the environmental cleanup of illicit marijuana operations throughout the state.

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If you’ve ever heard Justin Bieber’s song “PEACHES,” you know he gets his peaches out in Georgia, and his weed from California.

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Twenty six applicants are jostling for one of three spots in a city that until now has banned all cannabis sales.

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Aurora appeared to extinguish the idea this week of being among the first cities in Colorado to allow people to smoke weed in lounges, tasting rooms and buses.

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