Pot Docs Face New Rules In Colorado
DENVER (AP) - Colorado’s dispute over which doctors can recommend medical marijuana could become more confusing this week when state health authorities consider tighter limits at the same time...
View ArticleHealth Department Holds Hearing On Pot Rules
DENVER (AP) – Opponents of new rules that would require medical marijuana caregivers to be more involved in their patients’ lives say it will drive some caregivers out of business. Under rules being...
View ArticleHealth Board To Review Dissolving Tobacco Products
DENVER (AP) – The Colorado Board of Health will hold a public hearing to discuss health concerns over new dissolvable tobacco products being test-marketed in the state. Some of the new dissolvable...
View ArticleHealth Board To Review Dissolving Tobacco Products
DENVER (AP) – The Colorado Board of Health will hold a public hearing to discuss health concerns over new dissolvable tobacco products being test-marketed in the state. Health officials say some of the...
View ArticleFlu Shots For Workers In Health Care Setting Approved
DENVER (CBS4)- The Colorado Board of Health on Wednesday approved a plan that would require workers in health care settings to receive flu shots. The vote was 7-1. The plan would be phased in over a...
View ArticleColorado Marijuana Patients Protest Privacy Breaches
DENVER (AP/CBS4) — Medical marijuana patients asked Colorado health authorities on Wednesday to destroy and rebuild the state’s 107,000-person marijuana patient registry because of security breaches....
View ArticleColorado Health Authorities To Keep Pot Registry
DENVER (AP) – Colorado will maintain a medical marijuana registry, even though the drug is now legal for all adults and the registry has been criticized for security breaches. The Colorado Board of...
View ArticleColorado Struggles To Rein In Medical Pot Market
DENVER (AP) – A week before Colorado’s health department considers new limits on medical marijuana growers, a panel of lawmakers and regulators debated Monday whether the numbers of plants those...
View ArticleMarijuana Caregivers Face Colorado Crackdown
DENVER (AP) — Marijuana caregivers who grow pot on behalf of medical patients are under the microscope on Colorado — again. The state Board of Health is due to vote Tuesday on a new rule limiting those...
View ArticleMarijuana Caregivers Escape Colorado Crackdown
DENVER (AP) – Confronted with a room full of teary parents with sick children, Colorado health authorities on Tuesday changed course on a plan to limit marijuana caregivers to 10 patients. The Board of...
View ArticleColorado Health Board Strengthens Immunization Rules
DENVER (AP) – Colorado parents who don’t want their children to be immunized will have to fill out paperwork each year to opt out of vaccinations under new state rules. The state Board of Health passed...
View ArticleOpting Out Of Vaccinations Requires More Paperwork For Parents
http://media.denver.cbslocal.com/CBSDEN_1504201517110760227AA.mp4 DENVER (CBS4)– Parents in Colorado who don’t want their children immunized will have to complete paperwork every year as opposed to...
View ArticleColorado’s Medical Marijuana Studies Are An ‘Opportunity To Guide The Nation’
http://media.denver.cbslocal.com/CBSDEN_0906201518500660101AA.mp4 DENVER (CBS4) – Colorado is spending $9 million to study the role of marijuana as a medication. The state Board of Health approved the...
View ArticleColorado Eyes PTSD As Ailment Eligible For Medical Pot
DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Board of Health is considering adding post-traumatic stress disorder to the list of ailments eligible for treatment with medical marijuana. If approved in a vote Wednesday,...
View ArticleChief Medical Officer ‘Disappointed’ In Pot PTSD Decision
DENVER (CBS4)– Colorado’s Chief Medical Officer recommended that the state add Post Traumatic Stress Disorder to the list of conditions treated by medical marijuana. But the Colorado Board of Health...
View ArticleVeterans React To Denial Of PTSD Classification Of Medical Marijuana: ‘I’m...
DENVER (CBS4)– Many military veterans are upset after the Colorado Board of Health failed to approve Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD, as a condition for medical marijuana. “I’m angry, I’m upset...
View ArticleHundreds Of Veterans Line Up For Free Marijuana In Show Of Protest
DENVER (CBS4) – Hundreds of Colorado veterans waited in a long line in Denver on Saturday for free cannabis products. The free handouts were set up as a sign of protest to a decision by the state’s...
View ArticlePTSD Sufferers Sue Colorado Over Pot Decision
DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s decision not to allow marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder has prompted a lawsuit by PTSD sufferers. Five PTSD patients filed suit Thursday in Denver District...
View ArticleDoctor Says Board Of Health Approving Medical Pot For Vets With PTSD Is...
DENVER (CBS4) – In July the Colorado Board of Health denied veterans access to medical marijuana, and now veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder are suing the state. The board voted...
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