Are you thinking of trying edibles? Edibles are unlike any other product on the market, so even if you consider yourself a savvy smoker, it’s important that you read these guidelines. Once you do, drop by Altitude, your local Aurora dispensary and talk with one of our associates about what we have to offer:

Slow down.
It can be tempting to stock up on tasty edibles when you visit a Denver dispensary, but when you actually go to eat them, make sure you pace yourself. When you smoke marijuana, you can feel the high almost immediately or within a few minutes. However, edibles are very different. It could take up to two hours for the full effects of an edible to kick in, leading many inexperienced eaters to believe that they have to keep eating to feel the high. Once everything you’ve eaten does kick in, you’ll be left with a sick, uncomfortable feeling that may last hours. It’s important to pace yourself as you try edibles to make sure you don’t overdo it.

Don’t drive.
Because it takes so long for the effects to kick in, many people believe that they are perfectly capable of getting behind the wheel and driving home. But, you should never consume edibles and drive. If you plan on consuming edibles from a Denver dispensary, make sure you have other transportation arranged. Learn more about your responsibility when it comes to consuming marijuana and driving.

Eat something else first.
You should only buy edibles from a Denver dispensary when you’re starving and need food as soon as possible, right? Wrong. It’s ok to eat these when you’re hungry, just don’t do it on an empty stomach. It’s always best to have some food lining and protecting your stomach before consuming edibles.

Don’t be overly confident.
It’s common for customers to come into our Denver dispensary and think that they can consume larger amounts of edibles than other people because they smoke marijuana on a regular basis. The truth is, the amount of marijuana that it takes to get you high varies based on how you are consuming it. Someone who is a regular smoker could be very sensitive to edibles, while someone who has never smoked a day in his life could tolerate a larger amount of edibles. If it’s your first time trying edibles, talk to the budtenders at our Denver dispensary to discuss how much you should start with to play it safe.

Don’t panic.
If you forget to follow these guidelines, you may find that you’ve consumed far too many edibles. It’s important to stay calm in this situation and talk yourself through it. If you are experiencing extreme pain or discomfort, seek immediate medical attention, but otherwise, just wait it out. Find a safe, quiet place where you can lay down and wait for the effects to wear off, but be patient! Depending on how much you consumed, you may feel the high for up to twelve hours. Try to get some rest so you don’t freak yourself out waiting for the feeling to die down. By the time you wake up, the high will be gone and all that will be left is a slight lethargic, groggy feeling.  

Come by Altitude Dispensary, your go-to Denver dispensary, where our knowledgeable budtenders can help you find the right medical or recreational product to suit your needs. Contact Altitude Dispensary for more information today!

The Green Mile in Denver is not what you might think it is. It has nothing to do with the book by Stephen King, and nothing to do with the movie, either. No, the Green Mile trend is making life less appealing for visitors. Why? The dispensary store hours are much more strict, and the real estate space is quite limited. For that reason, customers don’t feel welcomed on the Broadway stretch, and usually have to go out of their way to seek better options.

The Marketing Campaign
Green Mile is the informal moniker given to the newly created Broadway Association. Some marijuana shop owners on the South Broadway corridor in the city of Denver have banded together in an effort to create a so-called innovative marketing campaign for cannabis. The concentration is on medical marijuana dispensaries and recreational cannabis shops with an emphasis on transforming the area into a commercial strip.

The Area
There has been quite a stir among those in the recreational and medical cannabis industry about this new concept. Since the legalization of recreational cannabis, no other place within the state of Colorado has witnessed such a noticeable stir as Broadway Boulevard and the Green Mile concept. Known to some residents as Broadsterdam, the Green Mile stretch of Broadway runs to the south of I-25 all the way to Yale Metropolis Medical Avenue where the city of Denver stops and Englewood begins.

The Visitors
On every corner, you will find a recreational or medical dispensary. Many visitors start their dispensary experience in this area, but find that it does not fulfill all of their cannabis desires. The shops tend to be smaller and everyone is competing for attention, selling topical products, edibles, buds and concentrates. Moreover, visitors are not given an option if they want to try another location.

The Initiative
There are many shop owners along the Broadway with obvious concern about the Green Mile initiative. Many believe that it has already diluted their hard fought efforts to promote this area of Denver as an “Antique Row.” The intention of the organization is to bring in more tourists, but the ad campaign makes no mention of marijuana due to the strict legal guidelines. Yes, the retail destination is being promoted by the organization, but has also put a dent in how other cannabis dispensaries elsewhere do business. For example, Altitude Dispensary in the city of Aurora offers a different experience to the shoppers, but the new businesses on Broadway has taken away much from this and other recreational and medical dispensaries nearby.

No Comfort
The shops on the Broadway are not as spacious or comfortable. In addition, for all the hard work that other dispensary owners have put forth, it is quite immature for other shop owners to come and reap the rewards so easily. There is major concern about the effect that the Green Mile will have on the industry brand in the state of Colorado.

If you want to learn more about the Green Mile and see the difference that other options bring, contact the Altitude Dispensary at 720-708-5428. You are also invited to come and experience more comfort and enjoy the specialty cannabis products that are offered at Altitude Dispensary.

What is live resin? Some think that these are the best dabs that you can get these days in the industry. While this is considered butane hash oil, the primary difference and explanation for its flavor is the material that is used initially to make it. The material that live resin uses is freshly frozen whole cannabis flowers in comparison to cured and dried buds.

Oil Extraction
When you extract oil from the fresh plant, it captures a special smell that can get lost during the process of curing. As THC concentrates develop and advance, stoners continued to seek additional methods of innovation in order to achieve that higher high. For that reason, live resin was discovered by Kind Bill, a traditional cannabis grower. The live resin is produced from plants that have been cut only within a few hours of being harvested.

The Procedure
The process for making live resin involves the freezing of the plants, resulting in flavorful and fresh products. Before the plants are dried and cured from the grow, they are used to make live resin. Other cannabis concentrates like wax and shatter are produced from the flowers that have already been dried and cured.

The Popularity
Now, the question is why is live resin so popular among users? It comes down to the ‘terpenes.’ Many who indulge in extraction and dabbing will concur that the flavor of live resin is fresher. The study of live resin conducted by University of Mississippi indicated that the fresh cannabis which is used in the process has a higher concentration of ‘monoterpenes’ in comparison to other ‘terpenes’ in the plant itself.

The Terpenes Concentration
The ‘monoterpenes’ is a lighter concentration of ‘terpenes,’ which is responsible for giving the cannabis plant the freshness in floral aroma. It also what provides a fresh fruity flavor to the live resin. In comparison to live resin, butane hash oil that is produced from cured flowers will oftentimes consist of fewer than two percent ‘monoterpenes.’

Consistency and Texture
As it relates to consistency and texture, live resin tends to be difference compared to other well-known cannabis extracts. The features of live resin give it consistency. It maintains its golden color and granular evenness. The product is difficult to handle as a result of the consistency in the granular evenness because it gets oily and sticky in nature.

Fresher Flavor
It is an endless quest for medical cannabis specialist as they try to create the finest cannabis products. However, it has been a few years now that cannabis experts have achieved the new high point of superiority by creating live resin. And live resin seems to have gained a lot of traction in medical cannabis dispensaries and among extractors.

Being Set Apart
However, live resin is set apart from the other high grade cannabis products because of its high concentration in terpene, giving it more flavor than the cured cannabis product. Terpene has earned its reputation for much more than its aroma and flavor. Its medicinal properties are evident and responsible for providing added benefits to its users. The particular processing and handling of the raw material that constitutes live resin is what results in the high terpene profile. However, for clarity, take note that live resin has less THC than shatter, but it is hard to tell the difference except for the aromatic flavor.

If you want to know more about live resin or any other medical cannabis products, contact Altitude Dispensary at 720-708-5428. You can take an extra step by going to our official website to make a purchase of edibles or other cannabis products offered here at Altitude Dispensary.

The laws in Colorado dictate that appropriate labeling and packaging is a critical element to remain in compliance with the legal guidelines. Companies that sell cannabis products must make sure that their packaging is tamper-proof, within the scope and agreement of the laws, and child proof. It is unfortunate for some Denver marijuana dispensaries that they have to stay abreast of the ever changing laws, forcing them to keep up and make the ongoing tweaks to make sure that they are in compliance, protecting the safety of the general public. Marijuana retail code in the state of Colorado covers edibles and other marijuana products.

Give Warning
The appropriate labeling consists of detailed warning statements for the benefit of the public. These warning statements include:

• The Universal Symbol should provide information about the container holding the product
• Listing of non-organic herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides that are used in the production of the edibles
• Listing of chemicals and solvents, if any are used in the production of the edibles or marijuana concentrate

The law prohibits the use of chemicals and pesticides. Edible containers must have a label with a list of the ingredients used. The label should also include the expiration date, refrigeration requirements, and the basic serving limit. If any testing was done for contaminants or potency, those statements are also required.

Retail Stores
If you own a retail cannabis store in the state of Colorado, you must put all your products in a specific container that maintains the following limitations:

• Must be opaque
• Must be child resistant
• If it is not for single use, it must be closable
• Appropriately labeled to keep with the retail cannabis code
• Package should not be deliberately designed with the intention of appealing to kids
• Labeling should not make misleading or false statements about consumer health benefits
• Text on label must not be less than 1/16 of an inch font size
• Text on label must be written clearly in English
• Text on label must be conspicuous without obstruction
• Text on label must have the Universal THC Symbol

In addition, edible containers must have all ingredients listed on the label. Prior to selling edibles to the consumer from a retail cannabis store, the package must be in compliance to the safety regulations put in place by the federal government and it must maintain the ASTM standard.

General Shipping Rules
If the edibles will be transported from a cultivation facility or retail cannabis store, the container must be placed inside a shipping container. Each shipping container must have an RFID tagged on it before transferring or transporting to another retail cannabis establishment. Once at the retail store, the product must not be placed in such a way in-store to attract person under 21 years of age.  

Before shipping, the container carrying the edibles must meet other requirements. The cultivation facility’s information must be affixed to the container. This includes:

• License number of the establishment
• Assigned harvest batch numbers
• Net weight with the use of standard measures
• A statement indicating expiration date

All containers holding an edible product must have a fact panel explaining the nutritional value based on the THC servings inside the container and the dietary restrictions involved. If you want to know more about the Colorado laws related to edibles, call one of the popular marijuana dispensaries Denver offers at 720-708-5428 or visit the Altitude Dispensary today.

As legalization laws continue to pass across the country, there will probably be a number of parties who attempt to challenge these laws. Although that’s expected, few thought that two states would be the party on the other end of a lawsuit—and that it would involve the Supreme Court. But, that’s just what has happened with Nebraska, Oklahoma and Colorado.

Usually, the Supreme Court only hears cases that were tried in front of lower courts and appealed; however, they are also required to hear any case involving a dispute between states such as this one.

Nebraska and Oklahoma, the two plaintiffs in this case, challenged whether it was legal for Colorado to legalize recreational marijuana. The states argued that marijuana from Denver marijuana dispensaries was flowing across state borders and into their territory, where the substance is still against the law. Nebraska and Oklahoma stated that the increase of marijuana was putting a strain on their criminal justice systems, since more people were being arrested for possessing and selling marijuana that was legally obtained in Denver marijuana dispensaries. These two bordering states were attempting to have the Supreme Court rule that Colorado violated federal law by legalizing marijuana.

Colorado fought back against the claims to protect the new freedoms found in places such as Denver marijuana dispensaries. The state argued that the recent move by the federal government to stop enforcing marijuana laws in states that have legalized medicinal or recreational marijuana shows that federal government should not have a say in a state’s legalization laws. Colorado used the Ogden Memorandum, which de-prioritized the use of federal resources in enforcing marijuana laws in states that passed legalization laws, as an example to support their argument. Because the federal government appeared to be bowing out of the fight against legalization, Colorado attempted to prove that the state and federal laws were now working in harmony, not against each other as Nebraska and Oklahoma claimed.

Denver marijuana dispensaries were on edge waiting for the outcome of the case. The Supreme Court asked the Solicitor General to represent the views of the federal government and in December 2015, he filed a brief recommending that the Supreme Court deny hearing the case. He wrote that “Entertaining the type of dispute at issue here – essentially that one State’s laws make it more likely that third parties will violate federal and state law[s] in another State – would represent a substantial and unwarranted expansion of [the Supreme Court’s] original jurisdiction.”

In the end, the Supreme Court agreed with the Solicitor General and did not allow Nebraska and Oklahoma to present their cases. The Court did not give an explanation as to why they denied hearing the case, although it could have been based on the recommendation of the Solicitor General.

Because the Supreme Court declined to hear this case, Denver marijuana dispensaries are still legal! Come by Altitude Dispensary, your go-to dispensary in Denver, where our knowledgeable budtenders can help you find the right medical or recreational product to suit your needs. Contact us at Altitude Dispensary for more information today.