Simply Pure Dispensary and Simply Pure CBD are founded and ran by Wanda James and Scott Durrah. Here you'll find press of all types for our founders and businesses alike.
July 24, 2019 Civilized Nadler, Harris to introduce bill decriminalizing pot, expunge marijuana convictions
July 16, 2019 Weedmaps High City Guide: Where to Buy Weed in Denver
July 7. 2019 Mic 6 minority-owned cannabis companies that are addressing inequality in the industry
July 2, 2019 The London Evening Standard Cannabis Debate: The Merrill Lynch venture capitalist turned marijuana millionaire
June 30, 2019 The New York Times Madness or Pot Paradise? The Surprising Legacy of the Place Where Legal Weed Began
April 23, 2019 NewsOne The Black Women Who Are Going Green
April 19, 2019 Weedmaps Denver Dispensaries Expect Huge 4/20 Sales. Here's What Will Be in Store
April 19, 2019 Newsy Why People Of Color Are Being Shut Out Of The Cannabis Industry
April 18, 2019 Westword Scott Durrah, City Council Candidate, Wins VICELAND Cannabis Cookoff
March 29, 2019 Denver Post In Denver, a council candidate will smoke weed with you and make you dinner
March 20, 2019 Westword Why Colorado Tokers Love Pootie Tang
March 8, 2019 Cannabis Dispensary Magazine The Women of Cannabis Conference 2019
February 11, 2019 Leafly 9 Cannabis Couples Who Changed the Game
February 6, 2019 Fox San Antonio The fight to legalize marijuana
January 25, 2019 Benzinga Pot Stocks, ETFs, Top News And Data From The Cannabis Industry This Week
January 25, 2019 Westword Pot Industry Veteran Scott Durrah Running for Denver City Council
January 21, 2019 PBS News Hour Consumption of marijuana edibles rises amidst scarce research into their health impact
January 15, 2019 Marijuana Business Daily Top business lessons from 5 years of legal recreational cannabis sales in Colorado
January 7, 2019 Denver 7 News Crews shutdown Highlands sidewalk, angering residents, business owners; Contact7 helps fix
December 18, 2018 Cannabis Business Times 12 Cannabis Industry Power Couples
November 23, 2018 Civilized Can Cannabis Actually Be a Feminist Industry?
November 16, 2018 Civilized "I Don’t Know that a Single Dispensary Owner Can Survive": Entrepreneurs of Color are Being Left Out of the Cannabis Boom
November 1, 2018 WNYC A Cannabis Pioneer's 'Lonely' Place in the Industry
October 16, 2018 CBC Radio What Canada can learn about legal pot from Colorado
September 25, 2018 NRP, MI Radio Legal recreational pot will likely affect public health & medicinal marijuana in Michigan
September 14, 2018 NJTV News Applicants vie for six new medical marijuana dispensary licenses
August 23, 2018 UpRoxx These Chefs Are Killing The Cannabis Culinary Game
Archive
December 21, 2017 | Dope Magazine | Simply Pure: A Genuine and Passionate Cannabis Experience
November 24, 2017 | Freedom Leaf | How Cannabis Activists Derailed Roger Stone
November 3, 2017 | Westword | Amendment 64 OGs Take a Victory Lap with CSU
October 18, 2017 | Fast Company | This Weed Warrior Is Breaking Barriers In The Marijuana Movement
October 1, 2017 | CBS 4 Denver | New Rules For Marijuana Edibles Now In Effect
September 29, 2017 | Leafly | 12 Minority-Owned Cannabis Businesses That Are Shaping the Industry
August 23, 2017 | Boston Globe | Will legal pot be a chance for minority business owners?
July 31, 2017 | Dope Magazine | Women Owned Cannabis Business in Colorado Have Anointed August #BOSSWOMEN Month
June 26, 2017 | Merry Jane | Baked to Perfection: Become a BBQ Boss with Cannabis Leaf Stuffed Roast Pork Loin
April 20, 2017 | Ebony | 420 Day: 5 Blacks in the Marijuana Biz You Should Know
April 3, 2017 | Denverrite | Proposal to keep Denver’s marijuana stores open later gets first green light
March 23, 2017 | Colorado Public Radio | Just What Will Trump And Sessions Do? That’s What Colorado’s Pot Industry Wants To Know
March 20, 2017 | Leafly | 13 Fantastic Women-Owned Dispensaries to Support
February 17, 2017 | Yahoo | Weed & the American Family: Wanda & Scott
February 16, 2017 | The Cannabist | Other Roots: Wanda James, the first black dispensary owner in Colorado, talks marijuana motivation
February 10, 2017 | The Root | The Pioneer: Wanda James, the 1st Black Woman to Own a Marijuana Dispensary, Gets Real
December 24, 2015 | The Cannabist Show | She Owns A Marijuana Show; He's a Pot Baron
December 15, 2015 | Westword | Marijuana Comeback: Wanda James, Scott Durrah Return With Highland Pot Shop
December 7, 2015 | New Cannabis Ventures | Simply Pure Is Colorado’s First Black Owned Cannabis Dispensary
December 5, 2015 | Fusion | Diversity in Industry
November 25, 2015 | Black Enterprise Magazine | Marijuana Inc: Growing Opportunities For Black Businesses
August 17, 2015 | The Atlantic | American Dreams
April 20, 2015 | NBC News | Colorado's Black Potreprenuers
April 20, 2015 | International Business Times | Marijuana Legalization 2015: Meet The 20 Most Influential People In Cannabis
April 1, 2015 | KUSA (9NEWS) | Colorado Teaching Jamaica About Pot?
March 31, 2015 | Fusion | The Unbearable Whiteness of the Marijuana Industry
March 24, 2015 | Fusion Network | w/ Ryan Nerz
March 11, 2015 | Fusion Network | w/ Ryan Nerz
January 8, 2015 | BBC | Flush with cash, marijuana entrepreneurs yearn for banking services
January 1, 2015 | KUSA (9NEWS) | Jamaican mayor tours Colorado pot businesses
January 1, 2015 | Jamaican News | Jamaican News
January 1, 2015 | Smile Jamaica | Colorado, Cannabis Global Initiative
January 1, 2015 | Smile Jamaica | Weed Conference, Dr. Andre Haughton - Lecturer, Department of Economic, UWI | Wanda James - Owner, Cannabis Global Initiative (Oct 2014)
January 1, 2015 | TV J News - CBS Affiliate | TV J News - CBS Affiliate
December 16, 2014 | Al Jazeera AJ+ | Diversity in Industry
October 1, 2014 | CNBC | Marijuana USA (Full Episode)
January 20, 2014 | Jamaica Observer | Obama Fundraiser at Ganja Event
January 18, 2014 | Jamaica Observer | US activists for today's ganja forum
April 20, 2012 | The Raw Story | Obama financier-turned pot shop owner: ‘They can’t criminalize us’
February 24, 2012 | The Durango Herald | To puff or to chew? Wide variety of marijuana munchies an alternative to smoking
November 17, 2011 | Bloomberg | Marketing Marijuana in Colorado as Dispensaries Allowed Profit
August 14, 2011 | The Sacramento Bee | Colorado's medical pot business is for-profit, regulated – and thriving
May 2, 2011 | The Daily Show | The Dope On Cannabis Cuisine
January 31, 2011 | Fox News | Simply Pure Chefs
January 4, 2011 | Westword | Wanda and Scott have a new edible company
December 12, 2010 | NBC Nightly News | Pot entrepreneurs smell opportunity in medical laws
November 23, 2010 | CNBC | CBS-Marijuana USA (Trailer)
July 27, 2010 | Westword | Dispensary owner & vet Wanda James lauds new PTSD rules, calls for pot rescheduling
May 5, 2010 | The Daily Show | Gone to Pot
September 18, 2009 | Denver Post | Denver Post - Out of the Cannabis Closet
February 1, 1997 | Black Enterprise Magazine | Go For It!
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