Marijuana has been legal in Colorado since 2012. But recently, large busts of illegal grow houses show that the black market for pot is far from gone. In fact, it's growing. Cannabis is one of ...

DENVER — There's a little something extra drifting through the Colorado ... indoor grow operations turn electricity, water and fertilizer into mature marijuana plants. Those grow houses inside ...

Most of them had operated in remote ... Ladd said that just since 2014, law enforcement officers in Colorado have raided 300 black-market marijuana grow houses and seized 70,000 marijuana plants ...

The nearly full grown marijuana plants had dirt clinging to the roots indicating that federal agents pulled them directly out of planters in the grow house. In the Aurora raid, agents could be ...

Colorado officials warn that one major problem associated with legalized marijuana is likely to show up in New Mexico: illegal grow houses. Tony Spurlock is the sheriff of Douglas County ...

Federal and local authorities in Colorado busted suspected marijuana operations in a coordinated raid of up to 50 black-market grow houses, according to The Denver Post. Agents from the U.S. Drug ...

SACRAMENTO — Police are arresting large numbers of Chinese nationals in raids on illegal marijuana operations in California, Colorado and other states, raising questions about who is financing these ...

Authorities estimate 500 homes throughout Colorado Springs and El Paso ... Officers tell me it was the most dangerous marijuana grow house they had encountered. Not only was there mold, but ...

However, they need to first obtain an extended plant count by reaching out to the medical marijuana registry. The investigation of grow houses in Colorado involves a combination of intelligence ...

On Jan. 1, 2014, dispensaries opened their doors to eager crowds and Colorado became the first state—and the first place in the world—to sell regulated recreational marijuana ... market where people ...

Overall since 2014, Colorado has generated more than $16 billion in marijuana sales. Since legalization in Colorado, many other states have followed suit, including most recently Ohio in 2023.

Like marijuana or not, it's a big industry in Colorado. The growing and selling of both medical ... Still, Orens blames most of the recent decline on people heading back to work, and society ...