A lot of hybrids, especially the earlier ones, were bred to build upon a parent strain’s good qualities while minimizing its undesirable traits. San Fernando Valley OG isn’t as old or crusty as Jamaican and Thai landraces, but it’s produced its fair share of wunderkinds while getting unfairly pushed back in the shadows.
The recent arrest of Robert Mears for allegedly attacking a ranger while under the influence of LSD isn’t an everyday occurrence at Rocky Mountain National Park. But officals confirm that drug-related incidents in general have been on the rise at RMNP, the fourth most visited national park in the country.
With its new, pot-funded program to give people simulated conversations about alcohol and drug abuse, a Denver non-profit hopes the public will start helping itself.
Denver International Airport is trying to put more local flavor in its concessions. But shouldn’t the airport ask the locals before they lift neighborhood names?
If the bond issue passes in November 2017, Mayor Michael Hancock’s transportation team will be able to take their plans for Denver traffic mitigation and prodding people out of their cars to the next level.
Christian Willis is the third person to be sentenced for playing a role in a robbery-gone-wrong that led to the fatal September 2015 shooting of Darren Bloomquist, a 49-year-old Air Force veteran who was moonlighting as a cab driver to support his disabled wife. According to the Denver District Attorney’s Office, the police report in the case remains sealed. However, we know that Willis and Nicholas McKinney, who were both juveniles when the crime took place, will spend decades in stir even though their older pal Dasean Perry actually fired the fatal shot.
As we’ve reported, metro Denver rent prices have been moderating of late, but as recently as August, rents were up on a month-to-month basis almost everywhere in the area. However, that’s finally changed. In September, rent prices were either unchanged or down from the previous month in ten different communities in and around the Mile High City.
Not all regions of Colorado are as accepting of legal cannabis as others.
After Hyperloop One announced that the Rocky Mountain Hyperloop project was among the winners of the Elon Musk-affiliated transportation company’s Global Challenge to “identify the strongest new Hyperloop routes in the world,” and revealed a new public-private partnership with the Colorado Department of Transportation to launch a feasibility study, questions arose about how quickly this dream could become a reality in these parts. CDOT’s Amy Ford says four years is a goal, albeit one that can only be achieved if a lot of things go right.
Donors, funders and volunteers of Excelsior, a 45-year-old health-services provider for at-risk youth and families, were notified last Friday, September 29, that the program will end its clinics and services by November and dissolve entirely by July 2018.
Sunday, October 1, marked the eightieth anniversary of House Bill 6385: the Marihuana Tax Act, the first time penalties were federally levied against the possession, production and sale of cannabis.
Even Peyton Manning credited legal pot for the success of 21 Papa John’s locations he purchased in Denver shortly before Amendment 64 passed in 2012 – but Papa’s doesn’t see nearly the number of potheads as more traditional junk food spots.
At this writing, at least fifty people are reportedly dead and hundreds more were wounded after a mass shooting attack by Stephen Paddock during a Jason Aldean appearance outside the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas on Sunday night, October 1. These numbers make it the deadliest event of its kind in U.S. history, but hardly an isolated one. In the five years-plus since July 20, 2012, when twelve people were killed and seventy were injured during James Holmes’s attack at the Century 16 theater in Aurora, 1,864 incidents like it have taken place, according to online estimates.
Tony Blue’s 64-year prison sentence for armed robbery has been overturned after his attorneys discovered that the state’s star witness in the case had been found mentally incompetent in another criminal prosecution 20 years earlier.
The concerns of Denver Broncos fans about quarterback Trevor Siemian and kicker Brandon McManus, among others, weren’t exactly put to rest by the squad’s 16-10 victory over the Oakland Raiders yesterday, October 1. But the whining done by Raiders Nation on Twitter during and after the contest, as seen in the twenty memorable tweets on view below, made the victory taste plenty sweet anyhow.
In a year that’s been filled with tragic climbing deaths in Colorado, the latest strikes close to home. Henry Gholz, a 66-year-old from Fort Collins who recently retired from an impressive position with the National Science Foundation, died on Saturday, September 30, in a fall from the Batman and Robin route up Batman Pinnacle at Rocky Mountain National Park.
“Operation Safe City” made it clear that the feds consider Denver a sanctuary jurisdiction. But readers are divided on what that means.
Miguel Lopez had earned the right of first refusal for Civic Center Park on April 20…until the city withdrew that privilege after this year’s Denver 420 rally because of alleged violations. He’s fighting that, but some readers think that the rally should move to a better place.
John Elway has been active in politics for years, even using the Broncos as a springboard for his conservative ideals.
Here are ten Instagram accounts any pothead would love, including nug porn, concentrate closeups, growing tips and much more.
Today, September 29, Denver mayor Michael Hancock formally unveiled a draft document of Denver’s new proposed five-year housing plan. “Housing an Inclusive Denver,” accessible below, aims to address the have-nots as well as the haves in the go-go economy of today’s Mile High City. Despite the apparent good times, Hancock acknowledged that “people are being squeezed out.”
With or without a legal definition of “sanctuary city,” it’s now clear that the White House, DHS and ICE all believe that Denver fits the bill.
