The Republican donors expressed a statement condoning the overturn of the Cole memo, potentially giving Colorado Republicans an ‘out’ if they choose to criticize the Trump administration on legal marijuana.
You’re forgiven if you can’t keep track of all of the elections taking place in Colorado this year. Here’s a guide on what you’re voting for and how to do it – and how to get politically involved.
The Colorado Springs Gazette, owned by conservative billionaire Phil Anschutz, has earned a reputation as the most overtly anti-marijuana major newspaper in the state. And while the first entry in a new series presented beneath the banner “Is Colorado better off five years after legalizing marijuana?” is an improvement over an anti-pot screed from nearly three years ago that was partially penned by a prominent and devoted cannabis hater, it still focuses almost entirely on bad news.
Our recent list of school shootings from Columbine to Parkland noted how frequently connections have been made between the killings at the former in 1999 and last week’s massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. This link is now being made even more explicit by way of plans to stage a “National High School Walk-Out for Anti-Gun Violence” on April 20, Columbine’s anniversary, in the wake of a March 24 rally in Washington being organized in association with organizers of the hugely successful Women’s March.
Last week, the body of Jeanna Leslie was found in her downtown Denver apartment. The former San Antonio, Texas schoolteacher, who’d moved to Colorado mere months earlier and quickly fallen in love with the Mile High City, had been stabbed to death. Now, Terry Dunford, described as a homeless man she’d been trying to help, has been arrested for her slaying, and according to an arrest affidavit accessible below, he made investigators’ job easy by leaving behind a staggering number of clues to his identity.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has now been commemorated with a strain: Jeff Sesh-ons. What’s Next?
After Nikolas Cruz shot and killed seventeen people at a high school in Parkland, Florida, on Valentine’s Day, the country quickly turned from mourning to debating gun rights.
Denver’s Environmental Health department set off a firestorm in November after it banned kratom, a plant that champions laud as a safe pain-relief alternative to opioids.
Sunshine Home Share Colorado is a nonprofit that connects the 55-year-and-older set who have extra space in their homes with renters. And if it doesn’t find government funding or private donors soon, it will close.
The proposal sped through the Colorado legislature in less than a month and is headed for Governor John Hickenlooper’s desk for his signature.
Dave Byrd, director of risk and regulatory affairs for the Colorado-based National Ski Areas Association, thinks the ski industry gets unfairly criticized for a lack of transparency when it comes to fatalities and accidents at resorts across the country. Each year, he points out, the NSAA publishes statistics about fatalities and catastrophic injuries on its website, with fact sheets linked below revealing that 44 people died and 33 others suffered paralysis, broken necks, broken backs and severe, life-altering head injuries while skiing or snowboarding at U.S. ski areas during the 2016-2017 season.
As we’ve reported, the Colfax branch of Myxed Up Creations was raided shortly after Denver Environmental Health banned the sale of kratom for human consumption, only to be allowed to transfer its supply of the popular herbal pain reliever to locations outside the city limits rather than being forced to destroy it after DEH’s own board called its process flawed. But while Myxed Up founder Phil Guerin is pleased by this turn of events, his battles with Denver aren’t over, thanks to an upcoming court case involving CBDs.
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but in 2018, imitation can also be simple mockery.
Jeanna Leslie, 49, was a vibrant free spirit who recently moved from Texas to Denver and quickly fell in love with the community, as she documented in words and photos on her Facebook page. But her obvious joy and excitement over moving into a downtown apartment and starting a new adventure now echoes with poignancy. The page has become a heartbreaking memorial to Leslie, who was stabbed to death in her Mile High City home.
Colorado Senator Cory Gardner had been assured by Jeff Sessions that Justice wouldn’t interfere with state-compliant cannabis businesses and users.
On February 28, Colorado’s Senate’s State, Veterans & Military Affairs committee will consider a bill that would repeal a ban on large-capacity ammunition magazines, which allow guns to shoot more than fifteen rounds of ammunition.
A former NFL player, a twelve-year-old medical marijuana patient and three other plaintiffs are suing Jeff Sessions and the Drug Enforcement Administration over the federal government’s classification of marijuana as a Schedule I drug.
Republicans in the state Senate want to be clear about one thing: they are not anti-civil rights. Even though they clearly voted 3-3 along party lines in the powerful Joint Budget Committee to defund the Colorado Civil Rights Division and its commission, Republicans say not to worry; they intend to revisit the issue. But that’s of course after they have their way with the state agency. Here are the reforms they are calling for in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court case against Lakewood baker Jack Phillips.
After months of heated debates and public meetings, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission finalized new industry regulations on flowlines in the wake of the Firestone tragedy. Local governments called for a complex mapping database hosted by the state.
While advocating for a bill to create a safe-injection site pilot program, Representative Leslie Herod, a vocal backer of the measure, told us, “We already have a safe-use site in Denver. It’s operated illegally, and it’s operating because of need. That’s our Denver Public Library” — specifically the central branch at 10 West 14th Avenue Parkway, where six people overdosed during the first three months of 2017 alone — “and it’s a huge problem. We need to move that population away from the library, and away from the bathrooms in coffee shops and restaurants, and move them to a place where they can get connected with services.” But that’s not going to happen now, because the legislation is officially dead.
Reporters and anchors covering yesterday’s shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, frequently mentioned the disturbing similarity between images from the latest tragic event, during which seventeen people died, and those from the April 20, 1999 attack on Columbine High School in Littleton. But Columbine’s terrible legacy has been felt consistently over the intervening eighteen-plus years. As documented below, the Parkland incident was at least the 208th school shooting to take place in Columbine’s wake.
If you keep a cartridge filled with butane hash oil around long enough without using it, you’ll notice that it turns darker and thicker and has a bitter taste with less potency.
