Toke of the Town https://www.tokeofthetown.com Marijuana and Cannibis News Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:27:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.tokeofthetown.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/cropped-200px-TOKE-32x32.png Toke of the Town https://www.tokeofthetown.com 32 32 Changes Coming to Colorado Marijuana in 2020 https://www.westword.com/marijuana/changes-coming-to-colorado-marijuana-in-2020-11596730#new_tab Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:27:17 +0000 https://www.tokeofthetown.com/?p=55428 The seventh year of recreational marijuana sales in Colorado promises to be an interesting one, with new laws allowing social consumption establishments and weed delivery, as well as new industry rules mandating more product testing while restricting vaping ingredients. Here are the six biggest rule changes that will take effect on Colorado’s marijuana landscape in [...]

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]]> In 2020, Try Not to Become a CBDipshit https://www.westword.com/marijuana/in-2020-try-not-to-become-a-cbdipshit-11562126#new_tab Sat, 04 Jan 2020 12:19:45 +0000 https://www.tokeofthetown.com/?p=55413 About six months ago, a Reddit user posted a photo of a sign pretending to peddle fake CBD-infused firewood. The Internet reacted as you’d expect, shaking a collective fist and rabble-rousing over something that was clearly intended as funny commentary concerning exactly what the Reddit readers thought they were mad about: CBD is being used [...]

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]]> The Hemp Was Legal in Colorado. Kansas Didn’t Care. https://www.westword.com/marijuana/the-hemp-was-legal-in-colorado-but-kansas-still-busted-the-jensens-11587952#new_tab Fri, 03 Jan 2020 12:17:52 +0000 https://www.tokeofthetown.com/?p=55409 Eric Jensen feels trapped. By now, the 43-year-old thought he’d be able to travel from his home in southeastern Colorado to see his son play college ball in the Midwest. But instead, he can’t cross the border into Kansas. He’s stuck hanging around his home town, where most of the residents have turned their backs [...]

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]]> The Ten Biggest Colorado Marijuana Stories of 2019 https://www.westword.com/marijuana/biggest-colorado-marijuana-stories-of-2019-11578081#new_tab Thu, 02 Jan 2020 17:16:51 +0000 https://www.tokeofthetown.com/?p=55405 Colorado has somehow managed to survive six years of recreational cannabis sales without burning down. But even so, there were plenty of hot, skunky issues to cover in 2019. This year, the Colorado Legislature further established this state as an epicenter of cannabis, passing laws that expanded medical marijuana access and legalized social use businesses, [...]

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]]> Our Five Most Popular Ask a Stoner Questions of 2019 https://www.westword.com/marijuana/our-five-most-popular-ask-a-stoner-questions-of-2019-11579384#new_tab Tue, 31 Dec 2019 12:37:20 +0000 https://www.tokeofthetown.com/?p=55389 As America’s knowledge about the plant grows, the range of subjects our Stoner handles have expanded. While most of the questions we received in previous years asked such things as how to roll a joint or if it’s possible to boof marijuana (it is, but be careful), 2019 queries ventured into slightly more intellectual subjects, [...]

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]]> CBD, CBC, ETC: Navigating the Alphabet Soup of Cannabis https://www.westword.com/marijuana/navigating-weed-and-hemps-alphabet-soup-of-cbd-cbn-and-more-11575503#new_tab Mon, 30 Dec 2019 12:46:25 +0000 https://www.tokeofthetown.com/?p=55393 Remember 2012? Peyton Manning had started his first season with the Broncos, and none of us knew jack about CBD. Seven years later, most of us still know jack about CBD, but at least we recognize how ignorant we are about that and other cannabis compounds. The letters CBC, CBG and CBN probably look like [...]

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]]> Ask a Stoner: How Does Weed Affect Short-Term Memory? https://www.tokeofthetown.com/2019/12/ask-a-stoner-how-does-weed-affect-short-term-memory.php/ Fri, 27 Dec 2019 12:35:21 +0000 https://www.tokeofthetown.com/?p=55386 Dear Stoner: I’m getting sick of misplacing my keys, wallet or phone after smoking weed. How badly do blunts hurt my short-term memory? Rhoddy

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]]> Why Colorado Tokers Love Hemlock https://www.westword.com/marijuana/hemlock-why-colorado-tokers-love-this-strain-11574096#new_tab Thu, 26 Dec 2019 12:41:45 +0000 https://www.tokeofthetown.com/?p=55380 We all have weird personal connections to certain words that cause us to hate them. I’m not talking about squirming when you hear “moist,” but about opinions that date from childhood, like my dislike for “hemlock.” Even before I knew the word’s definition, hemlock sounded like some fatal coughing disease from the 1600s, or a [...]

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]]> Merry Loudmas: Let’s Make a Ganjabread House https://www.westword.com/marijuana/how-to-make-a-weed-infused-gingerbread-house-11577592#new_tab Wed, 25 Dec 2019 12:11:58 +0000 https://www.tokeofthetown.com/?p=55366 Building gingerbread houses in elementary school usually involved fastening stale cookies to a milk carton, gluing some gumdrops and mints onto your uneven shack with frosting, and watching Frosty the Snowman for the 23rd time. Wasn’t it the best? Forgetting the fun, childlike traditions of the holidays is a quick way to become a Grinch. In an effort to [...]

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]]> Denver, Colorado Springs Pot Lounges First to Apply for State Licenses https://www.westword.com/marijuana/denver-colorado-springs-pot-lounges-first-to-apply-for-state-licenses-11581712#new_tab Tue, 24 Dec 2019 12:28:22 +0000 https://www.tokeofthetown.com/?p=55398 The Coffee Joint, the first establishment to hold a cannabis consumption license in Denver, is now the second pot lounge business to apply for a state social consumption license. Colorado Springs social lounge Studio A64 successfully applied for a social consumption license at the state Marijuana Enforcement Division office three hours before Coffee Joint owners [...]

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