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Medical Marijuana Mailers Could Be Illegal
DENVER (CBS4) – Starting on Friday Colorado’s medical marijuana industry will be more closely regulated as grow operations will begin having random inspections. And CBS4 has learned of a new...
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Opponents Say Legalizing Pot Opens Up Pandora’s Box For Children
DENVER (CBS4) – Colorado voters chose to legalize marijuana for adults, but now experts are split on how a social acceptance of pot is affecting Colorado’s children. Recreational marijuana is still...
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Explosions Highlight Dangers Of Making Hash Oil
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Nicholas Broms was trying to squeeze a better high from marijuana when his Oregon condo caught on fire. An explosion knocked out a wall, blew out his sliding glass door and torched...
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Police Round Up Drug Dealing Suspects In ‘Operation Tattletale’
Police arrest a suspect Thursday morning on the 4700 block of North Quitman in Denver. (credit: CBS) DENVER (CBS4) – Drugs, gangs, guns and stolen cars are part of a massive suspect roundup going on...
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New Drug Is Legal But Might Not Be Safe
CBS4’s Brian Maass speaks with a street seller of kratom. (credit: CBS) DENVER (CBS4) – After recent crackdowns on Spice, a new drug called kratom is filling the void left on store shelves as the next...
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Colorado Pot Raids Show Industry Still Risky
(credit: CBS) DENVER (AP) — There’s money to be made in legal weed. But you better have a strong stomach for risk. That’s the message Colorado’s nascent pot industry is taking from federal marijuana...
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Pot Groups Wage Weed-Friendly Bets To Highlight Reform In Super Bowl States
DENVER (CBS) – The Colorado and Washington chapters of the marijuana reform organization NORML have agreed to a cannabis-based bet to highlight the upcoming Super Bowl, which features respective teams...
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Nurse In Frisco Accused Of Stealing Powerful Painkiller Posts Bond
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. (AP) – A nurse working in a Colorado mountain community has been charged with two felony counts of possession of a controlled substance and one of theft from a hospital after an...
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Hundreds Of Pounds Of Drugs Taken Back On ‘Drug Take Back Day’
By Melissa Garcia GLENDALE, Colo. (CBS4) – Law enforcement officers across the Denver metro area collected hundreds of pounds of prescription drugs on Drug Take Back Day. The day is a nationwide effort...
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DEA Plans To Ban Kratom, Calls Drug ‘Imminent Threat’
By Mark Ackerman DENVER (CBS4)– The Drug Enforcement Agency is expected to ban a drug that’s been growing in popularity in Colorado on Friday. The DEA will classify kratom as a Schedule I drug on par...
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DEA: Kratom Ban ‘Not A Matter Of If, But When’
By Mark Ackerman WASHINGTON, DC (CBS4) – Amid protests and pressure from Congress, the Drug Enforcement Agency has not yet labeled the drug kratom a Schedule I drug. Kratom comes from a tropical tree...
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Kratom Back On Store Shelves Despite ‘Dangerous’ DEA Designation
By Kelly Werthmann DENVER (CBS4)– The Drug Enforcement Agency is asking for public input on medical uses and effects of kratom, just weeks after the agency said it intended on making the substance...
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Veterinarian Accused Of Implanting Heroin In Puppies Pleads Not Guilty
NEW YORK (AP) — A veterinarian pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. charges that he turned puppies into drug couriers for a Colombian trafficking ring by stitching packets of liquid heroin into their...
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Federal Agents Raid Homes, Bust Several Large Illegal Marijuana Grows
AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – The Drug Enforcement Agency raided homes suspected of illegal marijuana grow operations on Wednesday around the city and county as the agency reports more cases of black market...
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Officials: 15,000+ Marijuana Plants Seized At Week-Long Raids
AURORA, Colo. (CBS4) – Investigators tell CBS4 they conducted a total of 26 warrants in Aurora and Arapahoe County in the last week. In those raids, investigators say they seized more than 15,000...
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Black Market Marijuana Drug Raids Take Place Across Denver Area
ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Law enforcement agents are targeting as many as 50 locations across the Denver metro area Thursday, where illegal marijuana grow operations may be present. The raids are...
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