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Marijuana grows — legal or not — are far from business as usual for Colorado electric companies

A gathering of Colorado utilities officials centered around the massive power draw of indoor marijuana cultivation and issues with illegal grows.

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Marijuana sales fund $9.2 million in school pot prevention, health care programs

New school nurses and other mental health professionals for Colorado schools are coming through a $9.2 million grant parceled out among 42 school districts and charter schools by the Colorado Department of Education.

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Efforts to curtail marijuana-impaired driving collide with evolving attitudes, medicinal use

Promoting cannabis as a safer alternative to alcohol was a tenet of the marijuana legalization movements in Colorado and other states. Early data indicate that attitude continues when people get behind the wheel.

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Denver Post launches series examining effects of marijuana legalization in Colorado

Four years after Colorado voters passed Amendment 64 legalizing the sale of recreational marijuana, The Denver Post is taking a deeper look into the impact the drug has had on the state. First up: the presence of marijuana in fatal crashes across the state.

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The Sessions Letters: Read the U.S. attorney general’s missives to the first four states to legalize marijuana

In April, the governors of the first four states to legalize recreational marijuana asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to “engage with us before embarking on any changes to regulatory and enforcement systems.” Sessions responded at the end of July with four separate letters.

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Special forces soldier sues Fountain SWAT after legal pot grow raid

A former special forces infantryman, who won the Bronze Star and uses marijuana to treat PTSD after tours to Iraq and Bosnia, has sued the Fountain police SWAT team after officers raided his legal marijuana greenhouse

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Pair arrested in El Paso County illegal pot grow

Two suspects have been arrested in connection with a large-scale illegal marijuana grow in El Paso County.

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Marijuana grows leaving more Colorado homes filled with mold

No one really knows how many homes in Colorado are being used to grow weed, but authorities say they’re seeing more houses that have been left with thousands of dollars in damage from often-illegal marijuana grow operations.

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Inside a wild week in weed for Colorado Springs

Secret meetings with the feds, head shop busts and ‘gateway drug to homicides’ talk put Colorado’s second-largest city in the national spotlight.

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Feds visit Colorado to research marijuana regulation, black market, enforcement

Colorado officials who oversee the state’s marijuana agencies are sharing details about a fact-finding visit earlier this week by federal law enforcement and drug policy administrators.

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