Colorado’s medical marijuana population continues to swell. According to the state health department, 113,000 people are now on the medical marijuana registry, meaning the total MMJ population here may soon surpass the population of Thornton, the state’s sixth largest city…
Colorado is still enjoying the considerable windfall from its brand-new medical marijuana business licensing fees. As first reported by Face the State, Colorado has now collected more than $8 million in MMJ licensing fees since the rules went into effect this August, up from $7.3 million this summer…
After months of construction and permitting work, Zook’s Coffee and Ice Cream is finally open in the Denver Puppet Theater, the bright-yellow institution at 3156 West 38th Avenue. And just like the puppets that have long called the theater home, Zook’s is colorful, fun and designed for kids of all…
As we reported yesterday, Boulder-based Internet security company Webroot has released the Social Media Sobriety Test, an app that checks your level of inebriation before you risk making a drunken fool of yourself to all your online friends. But there’s an easier way to tell if you’re too drunk to…
Remember when, after one too many tequila shots, you confessed your undying love all over your ex’s Facebook wall? Or how you posted a YouTube vid of a certain projectile-vomiting incident right after it happened? Or how your drunken tweets ended up on Text From Last Night — three times…
How many cities can boast an annual city-wide contest honoring the most kick-ass building designs? Denver can, thanks to its six-year-old Mayor’s Design Awards, which recognizes achievement in new architecture and urban reclamation alike. And judging from this year’s 11 winners, who’ll be feted tonight at 6 p.m. in the…
While the big weed setback last week might have been the defeat of California’s Proposition 19, marijuana didn’t fare too well in Colorado, either. As per the state’s new medical marijuana laws, local officials are now allowed to ask voters whether or not their communities should allow dispensaries and affiliated…
Reports have been coming in from all over the country of people passing out or suffering panic attacks during the infamous arm-amputation scene in the new Danny Boyle and James Franco vehicle 127 Hours, a film based on the true travails of local boy Aron Ralston. Now there’s a new…
In the May feature “Lax in the City,” we detailed City Lax, Denver’s only inner-city youth lacrosse program, which was turning heads nationwide. Now, the endeavor’s picked up a new honor: Coach Gregory Crichlow was given as one of four 2010 “Coach of the Year” awards by Play City, a…
Why did Proposition 19, the CA pot legalization measure, fail? One reason might have been Obama administration antagonism exemplified by the memo “Marijuana legalization: A bad idea.” As Colorado begins the march to a 2012 legalization measure, let’s see if Obama’s “pot cheat sheet” holds up to scrutiny…
Last January, we looked at the high stakes for NetDevil, a Louisville game developer chosen to build LEGO Universe, a massively multiplayer online game based on LEGO bricks. Building a successful MMO can be risky, and NetDevil’s previous attempt had fizzled. But judging from LEGO Universe’s release last Tuesday, the…
One of the main arguments for the marijuana-legalization measure that Californians will vote on today is the tax revenue that legal pot would bring to struggling communities — ones like Colorado Springs, which may launch a police squad funded by a new pot of pot money…
Unsure of how to vote today on Initiative 300, which would create an official Denver UFO commission? On the fence regarding whether or not the city should bother creating a body “to help ensure the health, safety, and cultural awareness of Denver residents and visitors in relation to potential encounters…
This week’s cover story, “The Damage Done,” details the Denver-based Justice Initiative for Drug Endangered Families, a unique approach to drug treatment that employs cops in their off hours to mentor addicts they usually lock away. The feature focuses on sisters Audrey and Katie and their recovery through the program,…
So you’re happily listening to your custom-made MGMT station on Pandora Radio when suddenly a dude starts talking to you about elections and stuff and a photo of an earnest-looking guy pops into your track listing. What gives? Welcome to the brave new world of political advertising. Secretary of State…
Audrey had one foot in the grave, the other one on it. Meth will do that. One cold day in February 2009, high on drugs, the 25-year-old had taken the bus to Golden, then hopped a cemetery fence to reach the gravesite of a girl she’d known, a friend who’d…
While a move to follow California’s lead and put the legalization of marijuana on next week’s state-wide ballot didn’t come to pass, many Colorado voters will still asked to vote about pot issues on November 2. That’s because many cities, towns and counties put measures dealing with medical marijuana centers…
As we reported last month, the Mile High Marketplace, aka Mile High Flea Market, isn’t high enough for medical marijuana, since the operation kicked out Cannabis University Dean Michelle LaMay when she ran a booth there. Now LaMay, aka “Grandma Ganj,” is back. Yesterday, she protested outside the flea market…
What’s a poor dispensary owner to do to stand out in an oversaturated market featuring dispensaries on every street corner? One solution would be to hire Grow Room Communications, a new Denver-based company that purports to be the country’s first and only medical marijuana business development and public relations firm…
Everybody’s seen those lovely “Meth Will Change That” billboards dreamed up by the Colorado Meth Project, which depict scenarios so vile they’ll surely make you want to drop the dope or at least reach for a Handi Wipe. Now local comedians Adam Cayton-Holland and Greg Baumhauer have applied the concept…
Coloradans can use marijuana medicinally and purchase firearms — but due to conflicts between state and federal laws, they can’t do both at the same time. As first reported by the Vail Daily and FaceTheState.com, to buy a new gun in Colorado requires completing a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and…
Colorado’s gubernatorial race has offered a good dose of unintentional humor on its own. But Complete Colorado has upped the laugh ante by creating “Real Gubernatorial Genius,” satirical commercials (based on a popular Bud Light campaign) that lampoon Dan Maes, John Hickenlooper and Tom Tancredo…
