The locals around the mountain town of Nederland, Colorado, have been raising some of America’s best homegrown cannabis since the '60s. “There are a lot of fragrant tool sheds and storerooms around here,” one local farmer told Leafly during a recent visit. When legalization arrived two years ago, Nederland was ready. The 1,500 residents in this former mining outpost, 8,233 feet high in the Rockies, support two grow supply stores, an uncounted number of commercial grows, two retail cannabis shops, and the state’s first licensed cannabis consumption club.

It's never been done before. A vaporizer system that operates on single-serve pods filled with cannabis. CannaKorp recently announced the launch of CannaCloud™ , which has been described as the Keurig of Cannabis. 

EUGENE, Ore. -- Some potentially bad news for Oregon newspapers that accepts ads from local marijuana dispensaries.

A memo from the US Postal Service to state newspapers warned that if the publications run ads for the marijuana industry they might be violating federal law. 

Officials at a local dispensary said they don't understand why they aren't getting any recognition.

"I think it is ridiculous. Alcohol can advertise all day long, there is tobacco products being advertised and they kill people. No one has ever died from smoking marijuana," said Richard Walling, People's Wellness Center. 

We reached out to one local newspaper Eugene weekly and they said they plan to continue publishing marijuana advertisements. 

Road trip!

With a marijuana legalization measure likely headed to the ballot next fall, the state Senate’s Special Committee on Marijuana is planning a visit to Colorado in January to grapple with what may lay ahead.

Senator Jason M. Lewis, a Winchester Democrat who chairs the committee, says the panel will be meeting with state officials, law enforcement, and industry players, among others.

The delegation, he said, will not be sampling the product: “I don’t think that will be required.”

The committee will take a close look at how Colorado, one of four states that has legalized the drug, handles some tricky public policy questions: regulating home grows, responding to “drugged driving,” and curbing youth consumption.

A Florida-based personal equity management firm with a concentrate on cannabis has announced that it’s branching off.

First Harvest Financial, which has its headquarters in Tampa, is opening workplaces in Chicago and in Boca Raton, to help it assist in more investment in medical marijuana companies across the nation.

“The company’s new offices in Chicago and Boca Raton enhance the company’s reach to connect legal cannabis business seeking development capital to recognized investors,” First Harvest said in a statement released online.

DENVER – A marijuana infused manufacturing facility is voluntarily recalling marijuana products due to the presence of potentially unsafe pesticide residues in products samples, Denver Environmental Health said Tuesday in a press release.

The EdiPure recall affects 7,770 units of 17 different products, including a variety of infused candy products.

Contaminated hash oil was used to produce a variety of EdiPure candies, some of which tested positive for one or more of the following: Myclobutanil, Avermectin, and Imidacloprid – which cannot be legally used on marijuana in Colorado.

DEH said the products were widely distributed to store locations around the state. So far, there have been no reports of illness.

Starting next spring, Oregon will require all marijuana products sold in dispensaries or recreational shops to undergo testing for nearly 60 pesticides.

Until the new rules take effect, the state plans to allow the marijuana industry to continue to operate as it does now, with broad pesticide regulations that allow tainted products to end up on store shelves.

But on Monday the Oregon Health Authority signaled that it is willing to consider tightening up current pesticide rules until new, tougher regulations go into effect next June.

Last year, the website WebMD, a popular source of health advice from medical professionals, and Medscape, a web resource for physicians and health professionals that features peer-reviewed original medical journal articles and other resources for professionals and consumers, conducted a survey on medical marijuana.

LAS CRUCES - A Deming man is suing the U.S. Border Patrol, alleging agents are failing to adhere to a new rule that allow him to carry medical marijuana without risking federal charges.

Raymundo Marrufo, who participates in New Mexico's medical marijuana program, filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court seeking an injunction against the U.S. Border Patrol in connection with questions the agency poses to travelers at border checkpoints.

For the 10th time in three months, a Colorado marijuana company is voluntarily recalling pot products because they contain potentially dangerous pesticides — chemicals that “constitute a threat to the public safety” when applied to cannabis, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper wrote in an executive order in mid-November.