DENVER – Fears that trick-or-treaters here might end up with marijuana-laced candy on Halloween appear to have been overblown: Children's Hospital Colorado reported no instances of accidental pot poisonings from Friday night.

The Denver Police Department last month warned parents to be on the lookout for marijuana candies, in large part because they are virtually identical in appearance to candies available from grocery stores. And some "edibles" makers simply buy commercially available candies and spray or inject them with marijuana oil.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. —The New Mexico medical cannabis advisory board will meet Friday in Santa Fe to consider adding ADHD to list of aliments approved for medical marijuana use.

Medical marijuana is approved to treat several diseases in New Mexico. The advisory board meets only twice a year.

People with ADHD, a brain disease, lack the receptors that give them the ability to concentrate. Without those receptors, they struggle to focus.

KOAT medical expert Dr. Barry Ramo said he can see why some might think medical marijuana could help, but the solution might not be that simple.

‘Cultivated By Hand – Perfected By The Sun’

Harborside Health Centers break ground on new advertising campaign for outdoor cannabis

OAKLAND, Calif., Oct. 29, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Outdoor cannabis is getting a boost with Harborside’s innovative marketing campaign promoting “SunGrown” products. Harborside Health Centers—based in Oakland and San Jose, Calif., and Portland, Ore.—are known for their outstanding patient care, lab-tested medicine, wellness culture and beautiful interiors. Now their design team is elevating the cannabis industry by curating thoughtful advertising campaigns for the harvest season to encourage environmentally sound cultivation. The SunGrown campaign runs from the end of October through November.

Harvest season in Northern California is a remarkable time of year. The leaves are a rainbow of autumn colors, the air is cool and crisp, summer comes to San Francisco and the psychedelic excess of festival season gives way to a mellow reconnecting with the bounty of the land. It also marks the beginning of trim season and the annual emergence of a unique cannabis subculture, a sort of underground aspect, of the pot world.

WINCHESTER, Ky. - Tucked away off a narrow country road in Clark County, in the middle of a farm, 27 acres of hemp grew all summer. Now, the plants will be harvested and processed.

Kentucky, hailed as a leader by industrial hemp advocates, has grown the hemp. Now the state is working on growing the industry.

"In two years, we've come a long way," said Agriculture Commissioner James Comer, who is now running for Congress. "We've proven first of all that it's not a drug, which was very important for the opposition to realize. And we've proven it's economically viable, or there wouldn't be 22 companies that have made an investment in the state. ... What we're doing now is working with the companies that want to go to the next step to commercialize the product. "

Let's face it, 2016 is going to be a monumental year when it comes to the election process. In 2016 we'll be electing a new president, potentially changing the make-up of Congress, and more than a half-dozen states may be deciding on the medicinal or recreational approval of marijuana.

Voters are about to weigh in on marijuana
Marijuana has been a hot-button issue for consumers this decade, with three national polls (Gallup, General Social Survey, and Pew Research) all showing that a slim majority of respondents have a favorable opinion of the currently federally-illicit drug. Focusing solely on medicinal marijuana, the perception of favorability shoots even higher.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — As a member of the International Cannabinoid Research Society, a collector of antique marijuana apothecary jars, the founder of an industrial hemp business and “a pot smoker consistently for 47 years,” Don Wirtshafter, an Ohio lawyer, has fought for decades to make marijuana legal, calling it “my life’s work.”

But when Ohio voters go to the polls Tuesday to consider a constitutional amendment to allow marijuana for both medical and personal use, Mr. Wirtshafter will vote against it.

Justin Henderson was a little gun-shy at first. But it was 2008, and the Great Recession had stalled the real estate industry, leaving the Denver-based developer sitting on properties that weren't cash-flowing. When a couple of friends and colleagues started leasing their warehouses to pot growers, Henderson weighed his own options. "It's a tricky thing to tell everybody in your conservative financial life that you're part of the marijuana industry," he said.

Henderson now heads a company he believes is poised to become a mover in the cannabis industry beyond Colorado's borders.

Tech billionaire Sean Parker is expected to fund a possible California ballot proposal to legalize marijuana.

Many groups are trying to get initiatives legalizing marijuana on California’s November 2016 ballot, but one scheduled to be announced Monday will have something none of the others do: the money to run an effective campaign.

The Chronicle has learned that billionaire tech investor Sean Parker, the former Facebook president, is willing to spend millions to help pass the proposed Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act, according to a source close to the ballot effort.