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Slow Going For Colorado Pot Regulations

Marijuana regulation is moving at a snail’s pace in Colorado, where lawmakers held a third hearing on the drug Friday but agreed to only one measure.

2013/03/22

Marijuana Regulation Heads To Colorado Capitol

Marijuana legalization has prompted an enormous amount of debate in the four months since it was approved in Colorado, but only Friday did the drug get consideration from the people who will decide how it should be grown, sold and taxed.

2013/03/15

Andrew Kipling Walton (credit: Douglas County Sheriff)

Man Allegedly Uses Craigslist To Try To Deliver Pot

A 22-year-old man was arrested this week after authorities in Douglas County say he delivered marijuana to an officer who posed as an interested Craigslist user.

2013/03/07

Child-resistant packaging recommended to keep pot edibles out of the hands of children.(credit: CBS)

Doctors Urge Child-Resistant Packaging For Pot Edibles

A warning from the Rocky Mountain Poison Control Center has raised concerns- since Amendment 64 passed the number of calls about overexposure of pot with children and adults has doubled.

2013/03/07

Colorado Creates Special Legislative Pot Committee

Marijuana regulation is such a big job facing the Colorado Legislature that leaders have created a new committee to do nothing but work out laws for the newly legal drug.

2013/03/07

Man Sentenced To Life In Prison For Murder Of Army Vet

A man accused of murdering an Army veteran in July 2011 has been sentenced to life in prison.

2013/03/07

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (credit: CBS)

Senator To Holder: ‘More Serious Things Than Minor Possession Of Marijuana’

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said how the U.S. Justice Department will enforce federal laws about marijuana is still up in the air.

2013/03/06

A view from outside the United Nations building in New York City (credit: Monika Graff/Getty Images)

UN Urges US To Challenge Colorado’s New Legal Pot Law

A United Nations-based drug agency urged the U.S. government on Tuesday to challenge the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington, saying the state laws violate international drug treaties.

2013/03/05

Man Pleads Guilty In Pot Brownies Case

A man admitted he and a friend gave brownies baked with marijuana in them to their unknowing classmates and a professor at the University of Colorado.

2013/03/01

Colorado Task Force Ponders How To Tax Legal Pot

Pot smokers in Colorado were the biggest winners in the vote that legalized the drug. Now state regulators are working out the details of exactly how to tax it, so the benefits are shared statewide in the form of increased revenue.

2013/03/01