Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier fought off stiff competition from Lang Sias last night to score the GOP’s nomination in the 7th Congressional District. Now he faces a bigger challenge taking on Democratic incumbent Ed Perlmutter — but as a 2008 Westword profile notes, Frazier has a history of staring…
On April 1, the U.S. patent office announced a new trademark: “Processed plant matter for medicinal purposes, namely medical marijuana.” The category was killed three months later when the Wall Street Journal asked about it, but in the meantime ganjapreneurs nationwide filed some very interesting pot trademarks — with some…
The story seems straight out of a feel-good Disney movie: A bunch of inner-city kids pick up lacrosse sticks and make it all the way to the state championships – and along the way maybe, just maybe, find a better life. But it’s true and it happened in Denver, thanks…
As Katy Perry sings, California “gurls” may be unforgettable with their daisy dukes, sun-kissed skin and Popsicle-melting abilities. But when the dough runs out, those gurls drop the “u,” head east and end up as Colorado Girls, according to the music-video rip-off below. This tune has it all: Coors Light,…
Last week, the Colorado Department of Health found itself in hot water after Westwordreported that one of the members of its new Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee, Ken Weaver, was a Texas ex-con with a secret life. Now the Department of Revenue has announced its advisory group, and while Weaver isn’t…
Every Colorado dispensary and associated business had to apply for a state license by August 1 — which means we finally have a total number of Colorado pot shops willing to navigate the state’s new rules and fees. The tally: 717 dispensaries, 271 marijuana-infused product manufacturers and 1,071 grow facilities…
After years of planning, Union Station is finally transforming into a modern transit hub — which means a big chunk of downtown is a fenced-off construction zone. To spruce things up, the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs has turned to local yard bombers the Ladies Fancywork Society (LFS) and sound…
Five years ago, Los Comicos Super Hilariosos strode onto Denver’s stand-up wasteland like the Avengers of ass humor, the Super Friends of shit talking, the Justice League of dick jokes. The collective’s monthly shows have featured Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl, Greg Baumhauer, Ben Roy and their colleagues giving Denverites a…
The most notable part of the first meeting of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s new Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee, held this morning, wasn’t what occurred, but what was missing: Staffers announced that Ken Weaver, the committee’s designated patient advocate, had stepped down. Yesterday, Westword reported on Weaver’s…
The 100,000-plus medical marijuana patients now in Colorado have an official representative: Ken Weaver. That’s according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, which appointed Weaver to be the patient representative on the state’s twelve-person Medical Marijuana Registry Committee, which will recommend how the department should implement Colorado’s…
For its new Medical Marijuana Advisory Committee, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment selected Ken Weaver, subject of this week’s “Blowing Smoke.” It’s the latest item on a résumé that includes going to prison for stealing a plane and making up a fake life — but CDPHE apparently…
Dispensary owners are scrambling as another tight deadline approaches: Applications for “medical marijuana centers,” optional grow facilities and marijuana-infused product manufacturers — along with fees from $1,250 to $18,000 — need to be submitted to the state’s new Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division by August 1. Which, adding to the confusion,…
Ron Hyman, the state’s registrar of vital statistics, knows that the deluge of medical marijuana registry applications his office receives daily has to stop eventually. After all, he jokes, Colorado only has five million residents. But given the latest numbers, this humorous line has a certain ring of truth…
When hometown hero Chipotle unveiled a new “Low Roller” menu last spring in Denver, featuring novel options like single tacos, small salads, pozole and kids items, some people heralded it as a disaster of biblical proportions – fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, human sacrifice, dogs and cats…
The assassins drove into northeast Park Hill in the early-morning hours of May 18, 2008. They parked their vehicles in a dark alley and began filling glass bottles with gasoline. They were Crips, young gangbangers who went by names like “Tre Hundred,” “Baby Hoo Ride,” “Li’l Mario” and “Quise.” They…
In this week’s feature, “Crips Burned Down the Holly in Bloods Territory, But Can Peace Emerge from the Ashes in Northeast Park Hill?,” we recount the story of the Holly Square shopping center, burned to the ground in a 2008 gang attack and now poised for rehabilitation thanks to a…
Boulder tends to win a lot of “Best place to…” awards, and now it’s racked up a new honor: The city’s been named the best place to raise abducted children by American Living magazine. Never heard of that publication? That’s because the whole thing is made up, part of a…
Everyone has questions about the new medical marijuana laws. And one of the best people to answer them is Jill Lamoureux-Leigh, one of the most successful and respected people in the MMJ community…
Is Bill Ritter guilty of plagiarizing? That’s what investigative website Face the State seems to be suggesting, having dug up a 2008 Veterans Day commentary bylined by Ritter in 2008 that has more than a passing resemblance to a Veterans Day speech given by Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski four years…
For the younger set, film-watching isn’t the social event it once was. Nowadays, cinema appreciation is usually enjoyed at home with a Netflix disc in the DVD player or Hulu.com on the computer. After all, what self-respecting hipster wants to be caught dead in an IMAX theater sporting goofy 3-D…
Something fishy appears to be going down in the Aurora Police Department. As Face the State’s Jared Jacang Maher reported yesterday, the Department of Justice is investigating the police force, apparently because of its recruitment practices…
One of the main people to thank — or curse — for Colorado’s new medical marijuana regulations is Matt Cook, senior director of enforcement at the Department of Revenue. Cook, who worked closely with legislators developing the rules, is now in charge of enforcing them and will be helming the…
