https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/ Pages on colorado-medical-cannabis.org, newest updates first. Update times come from each page's commit history. Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:42:00 +0000 https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/producer-review/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/producer-review/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:42:00 +0000 We believe Colorado marijuana regulators have violated specific public-trust and official-misconduct statutes, detailed here for industry input before submission to authorities. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:50:00 +0000 Stories we publish before they're finished, because the things they cover aren't finished either. Every claim marked by what supports it, updated as facts land. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/ Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:50:00 +0000 Colorado rewrote its marijuana testing rules effective January 2026, is rewriting them again, and watched a statutory rewrite die. We're mapping the maze from the primary documents, matrix by matrix. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-rescheduling/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-rescheduling/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:53:00 +0000 On April 28, 2026, marijuana under state medical licenses moved from federal Schedule I to Schedule III. What that actually changes for a Colorado patient, what it leaves undecided (including the legal status of the jar in your hand), and the bigger rescheduling decision still in progress. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/enforcement/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/enforcement/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:53:00 +0000 Everyone at Colorado's cannabis testing forum agrees sample cheating happens. Industry itself asked the state to revoke licenses for it, and the state agreed revocation belongs on the table. The fines on record run $15,000 to $23,750, and the year produced no enforcement proposal. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/where-are-the-reports/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/where-are-the-reports/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:53:00 +0000 Colorado committed, in writing, to publish its shelf-testing results on a schedule: a summary about 30 days after the program ended, a detailed report about 90 days after. Both deadlines passed without a document. Going forward, this site will ask its members to file records requests when public data goes missing without a stated reason. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/who-made-that-decision/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/who-made-that-decision/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:53:00 +0000 Colorado's shelf-testing program consolidated its promised reporting into a single end-of-program document. Asked directly who made that decision, nobody at the public forum could name an author, the chair moved on, and no recording since has supplied an answer. This site will ask its members to request the paper trail. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/patient-guides/flower-potency/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/patient-guides/flower-potency/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:53:00 +0000 A batch of flower does not have one THC number; it has a range, by biology. Why the percent on the jar is the least reliable thing printed there, and what actually predicts the experience: the ratio, the terpenes, the freshness. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/aroma-map/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/aroma-map/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:19:00 +0000 A 112-term aroma vocabulary for cannabis flower, arranged as a tasting map, built the way wine and whisky trained their tasters, and grown by the reviews our readers send. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/patient-guides/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/patient-guides/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:19:00 +0000 Practical cannabis information with visible evidence labels, linked sources, and a firm boundary against personalized medical advice. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/about/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/about/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:56:00 +0000 A public editorial layer for Colorado medical cannabis patients, caregivers, and people considering cannabis for a medical condition. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/ Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:56:00 +0000 Patient information and clear reporting on the Colorado rules that shape access and choice, read from primary sources. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/patient-guides/cannabis-for-pain-field-notes/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/patient-guides/cannabis-for-pain-field-notes/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:53:00 +0000 An informal guide from our staff reviewer's five years using cannabis for spinal stenosis. The mistakes, the dosing lessons, and what nobody at the counter tells you. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/flower-blind-spot/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/flower-blind-spot/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:48:00 +0000 Two independent datasets say flower has the worst label record of any cannabis product. A full year after Colorado launched off-the-shelf surveillance testing, flower has never been tested once. Why the blind spot happened, what it costs, and how to read the results when they finally land. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/patient-guides/entourage-effect/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/patient-guides/entourage-effect/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:48:00 +0000 Where the term came from, what the research actually shows, why that research keeps missing the plant, and the buffering effect one patient keeps noticing in fresh, high-terpene flower. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2025-09-12/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2025-09-12/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:48:00 +0000 The forum finalized shelf-surveillance for an October launch (test types, collection SOPs, the industry bulletin) and split hard over how fast and how fully results should reach the public. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-09-04/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-09-04/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:48:00 +0000 The Science & Policy Forum meets September 4, 2026. We'll be there and we'll cover the recording. Send us the questions you'd want asked about testing, labels, and the state's surveillance program. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/why-we-read-the-papers/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/why-we-read-the-papers/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:48:00 +0000 Peer review is a signal, not a certification. A worked example (a prestige-journal paper whose evidence dissolves under one scatter plot) and what this site does instead. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/is-the-label-true/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/is-the-label-true/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 07:35:00 +0000 Two years, two independent instruments, one direction: every safety test the state has run came back clean, and the potency numbers consumers dose by are not reliably true. The complete label-accuracy record, each figure with its scope, in one page. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/the-building/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/the-building/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:31:00 +0000 In January a rooftop fan exploded at Colorado's state cannabis reference lab. Three of the four other air handlers had failing bearings. Metals testing stopped for lack of exhaust ventilation, and flower surveillance slipped most of a year. The people are doing the work; the facility is the unacceptable part. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/agent-access/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/agent-access/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 The machine-readable page pattern, seven interpretation rules, and their visible HTML enforcement status. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/colorado-regulations/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/colorado-regulations/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 News and rule changes translated into their practical effects on Colorado cannabis consumers and medical patients. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/sb-26-007-ryans-law/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/sb-26-007-ryans-law/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 A Colorado law lets health facilities allow medical cannabis for terminally ill patients, and requires none of them to. We're researching what happens next. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 Machine transcripts and AI-drafted summaries of Colorado's cannabis Science & Policy Forum meetings, from the run-up to the January 2026 testing rules through the first year under them. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/august-7-forum/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/august-7-forum/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 Colorado's Science & Policy Forum met August 7, 2026. Third-party sampling is off the forum's table, the state's own labs proposed tighter method rules, and one central question about lab consistency got the answer "I don't think we have an answer to that. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/what-changed/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/what-changed/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 The testing rules that took effect January 5, 2026, in plain language: what the state changed, which businesses each change touches, and what it means for the products you buy. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/who-it-affects/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/who-it-affects/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 The same testing decisions and non-decisions land differently on a patient, a recreational buyer, a grower, a lab, an extractor and a dispensary. What each one should take from them. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/who-pays-for-testing/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/marijuana-testing-overhaul/who-pays-for-testing/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 Colorado collected $236 million in cannabis taxes in 2025 while its state lab's air handlers failed one by one. The testing system's real costs are hidden in the supply chain (paid by consumers and failed businesses), and the facility that anchors it all is the cheapest part of the system. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2025-08-01/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2025-08-01/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 A researcher's 281-product study found concentrate labels honest and flower labels wrong more than half the time; the state then walked through its shelf-surveillance design, after restarting the disrupted meeting in locked-down webinar mode. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2025-11-07/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2025-11-07/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 Phase one's edible microbials all passed; pesticide and solvent methods needed more validation time, pushing flower surveillance to 2026; and the year's bluntest exchange put the interlab trust crisis on the record. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-01-09/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-01-09/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 Four days after Colorado's new testing rules took effect, the Science & Policy Forum set its 2026 agenda (interlab consistency and new analytes), heard the first surveillance results were drafted, and learned an exploded air handler could slow the program. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-02-06/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-02-06/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 A stakeholder-built risk worksheet for adding analytes, the revelation that Colorado had (and repealed) third-party sampling rules a decade ago, and half of recent enforcement actions tied to sample adulteration. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-03-06/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-03-06/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 Cost estimates from 10% to triple, testimony from labs that operate both regimes, the enforcement-is-the-variable lesson from California, and a leaner evidence worksheet piloted on chromium and fusarium mycotoxins. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-04-03/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-04-03/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 The proficiency-testing program explained down to its robust statistics, a manufacturer's case that single-point pass/fail rules don't match the statistical reality, surveillance pushed to fall, and the first edibles results disclosed under pressure. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-06-12/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-06-12/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 The forum declined consensus on mandatory third-party sample collection; the surveillance program's edible results showed every safety test passing while barely half the samples matched their own labels. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-07-10/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/2026-07-10/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 With third-party collection dead, the forum pivoted to strengthening self-collection rules. And the surveillance data comparison landed hard: samples that passed a licensed lab passed the state's retest only about half the time. https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/patterns/ https://colorado-medical-cannabis.org/developing-stories/science-policy-forum/patterns/ Sun, 16 Aug 2026 03:57:00 +0000 Ten meetings, one year, five questions that never got answered. The recurring threads and per-seat pain points across the Science & Policy Forum from August 2025 through August 2026, drawn from our machine transcripts of every published recording.