Evolab has new leadership with a familiar face to the cannabis industry. The CO2 extraction company announced the hiring of former Mary’s Medicinals CEO Nicole Smith to the same position on Monday, August 28.
Brian Crecente, who recently took over as editorial director for Glixel, the ambitious video-game website of Rolling Stone magazine, following impressive runs at gaming-centric Kotaku and Polygon, is easily among the most accomplished alumni of the Rocky Mountain News, which cratered in February 2009 just prior to its 150th anniversary. Even though he left the Rocky a decade ago, when editors wanted to move him from the gaming beat into a more traditional role amid widespread staff departures, he gives the paper credit for being ahead of its time when it comes to covering his favorite subject. But today, he doesn’t see many dailies giving anything other than short shrift to video games in general, despite the industry racking up an estimated $91 billion worldwide in 2016.
When Colorado Representative Jared Polis vacates his congressional seat after his run for governor, he’ll be taking his pro-cannabis mindset with him. But cannabis policy could become an even bigger focus if Todd Mitchem takes his place in the 2nd Congressional District.
Even though housing prices in metro Denver have been moderating in some areas thanks to an increase in inventory, home buyers in Denver still face huge challenges, including a shortage of modestly priced properties and the speed with which the ones that are listed disappear. But while the majority of lower-priced houses showcased on MetroDenverHomeListings.com at present are already under contract, we managed to find six listings near or under $200,000 that are still active at this writing.
On August 27, the Colorado Department of Corrections revealed the death of inmate Benjamin Davis, one of the state’s most notorious prisoners, at Wyoming State Penitentiary, to which he’d been transferred. Davis, who is is suspected of committing suicide, was the reputed leader of a white-supremacist prison gang known as the 211 Crew and a potential player in the 2013 execution-style murder of CDOC executive director Tom Clements.
Does the size of your marijuana buds matter? It depends on which side of the transaction you’re on.
“Why do we do this?” asked Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute and host of the annual Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Party, at the August 26 event. “Only one reason. To piss off people on the left.”
Monica Burke, a former employee of the St. Vrain Valley School District, was sentenced on Friday, August 25, to twenty months in prison for kicking, punching, verbally abusing and spraying Lysol in the face of a twenty-year-old, student with severe autism.
Today, August 28, marks the debut of Blazin’ Hit Radio, the new online home of Larry and Kathie J, whose popular KS 107.5 morning show was canceled after a contract dispute earlier this year. The station is sponsored by The Green Solution, a powerful Colorado marijuana dispensary company with a growing national profile, and its signature show, which will broadcast live from 5 a.m. to 10 a.m. weekdays, promises to combine an uncensored variation on the humorous antics that scored big ratings in Denver for fifteen years with a mix of hip-hop, reggae, contemporary hits and throwbacks.
Organizers of Denver Go Topless Day 2017, which took place August 26 in downtown Denver, call the event a rousing success. The number of participants was estimated at more than 1,000, and no reports of negative interactions from folks on the 16th Street Mall and Civic Center Park have surfaced at this writing. Moreover, the Denver event is making its mark internationally, as it was highlighted by GoTopless.org alongside similar gatherings that took place across the globe.
On Saturday, August 26, a thus-far-unidentified 21-year-old man died in a fall from Capitol Peak, a fourteener in the Elk Mountains near Aspen. The man is the fifth Capitol Peak death since July 15, a span of 43 days, or just over six weeks. And while the fourteeners in the Elk Mountains range are considered to be Colorado’s most dangerous, the number of fatalities on Capitol Peak during 2017 to date is unprecedented in recent memory. Capitol Peak registered four fatalities in the decade and a half prior to this year.
Colorado’s cannabis calendar is stuffed full in August , with with conventions, lectures, meetings and more. Keep reading for more events this month, and beyond.
This week Governor John Hickenlooper and Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman sent Sessions this week refuted Jeff Sessions’s letter on marijuana point by point, earning Hickenlooper kudos from this reader.
After our Michael Roberts wrote a story asserting that 2018 gubernatorial candidate and 18th Judicial District DA George Brauchler was attempting to score political points with anti-cannabis critics with post-prosecution statements that linked marijuana legalization to violent crimes, Brauchler fired back with his own story.
Last November Denver voters approved Initiative 300, which will allow businesses to apply for social-consumption permits. But are the rules too restrictive? These readers think so.
In 2008, I got married and moved into a house in the quiet Harvey Park neighborhood in southwest Denver. One of the neighbors on my block was an odd woman with a penchant for French bulldogs; she had a few too many to be on the legal side of dog ownership in Denver, but they were small and quiet and I didn’t think much of it. At the time, she had six dogs.
Is any of what Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is proposing to do with national monuments even legal?
Governor John Hickenlooper promised a “comprehensive response” to a letter from Attorney General Jeff Sessions regarding his concerns about legalized marijuana in Colorado. Now he’s sent it.
A video of thirteen-year-old Denver East High School cheerleader Ally Wakefield being forced into the splits position while crying out in agony has gone viral on a cat-playing-piano, double-rainbow, Numa-Numa-guy level. The story is still developing at this writing, and it presents something of a dilemma for our Schmuck of the Week department, since choosing only one schmuck in this situation is virtually impossible. But right now, the likeliest nominees are cheer coaches Ozell Williams and Mariah Cladis, two East High administrators and a Denver Public Schools official who’ve been put on leave amid the ongoing investigation, and all of us, for our fascination with images that could well violate the Geneva Conventions rules against torture.
Activism needs to be more inclusive. That’s a criticism leveled at this year’s plethora of national protests, starting with the Women’s March on Washington. With the inaugural Inclusive Global Leadership Institute, two University of Denver professors are working towards that goal.
One of the most acclaimed current series on Netflix is GLOW, a fictionalized look behind the scenes at Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, an 1980s-vintage made-for-television creation that became a cult favorite and not-so-guilty pleasure for a generation of viewers. But Susan Phelan doesn’t need to watch the show, because she lived it for real. Before becoming an on-air traffic reporter for a slew of high-profile Denver-Boulder radio stations, including KOA, KBCO, KBPI and The Fox, as well as a badass bassist for bands such as Ryan Chrys and The Rough Cuts, she appeared on Powerful Women of Wrestling, aka POWW, a GLOW spin-off of sorts that also spawned a syndicated TV program enjoying a second life on YouTube.
Cannabis Clinicians Colorado is holding a public research event this weekend in Lakewood to educate cannabis consumers on impairment.
