Marijuana - The Durango Herald

Council to vote on how marijuana shop buffer zones are measured

Planning commission voted against staff recommendation

DATE: Jul 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Nevada adopts emergency rules to combat pot bottleneck

CARSON CITY, Nev. – Nevada moved Thursday to reduce supply problems at recreational marijuana stores that have faced overwhelming demand for newly legal pot and the possibility of their shel...

DATE: Jul 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Colorado’s Low Unemployment, Legal Pot Push Employers To Reconsider Drug Tests

In 2013, The Denver Post named Ricardo Baca its first editor for marijuana coverage, making him the staff expert on pot. That meant sometimes counseling new hires on how to pass the newspape...

DATE: Jul 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Durango City Council floats tax increase on marijuana

Councilors ask for more information; issue could land on November ballot

DATE: Jul 6, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Nevada launches sales of legal recreational marijuana

LAS VEGAS – Nevada became the fifth state in the U.S. with stores selling marijuana for recreational purposes, opening a market early Saturday that is eventually expected to outpace any othe...

DATE: Jul 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Man sentenced to 24 years for home-invasion murder

4 participated in robbery that killed student

DATE: Jun 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Nevada pot sites stock, check bud before legal sales fire up

Recreational marijuana sales start there today

DATE: Jun 30, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Colorado announces largest pot bust since marijuana was legalized

DENVER – Colorado officials announced Wednesday that they have busted a mammoth marijuana trafficking ring that pretended to be growing weed for sick people but was instead illegally shippin...

DATE: Jun 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Attorney general announces indictment of largest marijuana drug ring in state history

Distributed thousands of pounds of illegal pot across state lines

DATE: Jun 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

As pot comes out of black market, regulators face scrutiny

DENVER – Take a black-market business that relies on cash. Move the business out of the shadows by giving it government oversight. Hire new regulators to keep watch on the business, all with...

DATE: Jun 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Uncertainty as Nevada aims to launch recreational pot soon

RENO, Nev. – Nevada voters legalized recreational marijuana in November, and officials are trying to put rules in place to start selling it on July 1. It would be the shortest tur...

DATE: Jun 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Business

Former pot officer, entrepreneur charged in trafficking ring

CENTENNIAL – A former Colorado marijuana enforcement officer and a marijuana entrepreneur are among those accused of being involved with a large trafficking ring that shipped pot out of stat...

DATE: Jun 13, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday