While the Trump administration has a new proposal that would crack down on legal immigration, a Denver City Council committee approved a proposal that would give undocumented residents more protection from ICE. Meanwhile, Mayor Michael Hancock is drafting his own executive order regarding immigration. Our readers weigh in.
While Jeff Sessions is writing states that have legalized marijuana, he’s hearing from Coloradans, too, who want to make sure medical marijuana stays legal in this state.
Michael Roberts and his wife got stuck in a traffic jam on Interstate 70 last weekend caused by a horrific accident that ultimately killed two people and injured six. He wrote about his experience — and readers had plenty of opinions about his story.
A teenager who suffered a concussion in a sports injury finally found relief through cannabis. Now her mother asks Attorney General Jeff Sessions to stay away from meddling with marijuana.
His obituary describes Kabelman’s death as “a tragic accident,” but Lakewood police detectives have declined to declare it an accident or a suicide.
In a little over a month, three quarters of a million people like Denver’s LaLo Montoya, an undocumented resident, may be thrown back into the shadows if the Trump administration aggressively expands deportations.
If the allegations against Weld County Sheriff’s Deputy Derek Kinch are true, and his family says they are, he’s more than earned Schmuck of the Week honors. After all, Kinch has been arrested on suspicion of child abuse and assault after he’s said to have reacted to the length of his daughter’s shorts by pinning her to a wall and choking her.
Dispensaries are carrying more and more pre-rolls from wholesale companies dedicated to joints and little else. Are they worth the money? I smoked them all to find out.
Gun violence is a common occurrence in Colorado. In July, at least 67 incidents involving guns took place across the state. Not all of them resulted in injury or death, but each could have. See where they happened here.
Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper can’t seem to give a national interview without legal cannabis grenades being hurled at him. Luckily for him, he’s become a seasoned veteran on the topic.
Skeletal remains found near South Boulder Creek east of Gross Reservoir have been formally identified as Ryder Johnson, who vanished on January 17, 2016 after a day of work at Eldora ski resort. Johnson’s family, which offered a six-figure reward in connection with his disappearance, have released a statement expressing a mixture of grief and relief over confirmation of a fate members had long feared.
This week siblings of Michael Blagg went to court to try to get information released in the state’s tight-lipped attempt to convict Blagg a second time around for murdering his wife — including defense documents that they believe identify a possible alternate suspect.
The Denver Police Department has expanded its body-worn-camera program to include members of the SWAT team. However, the policy’s fine print reveals that the cameras won’t be routinely used during tactical operations, when SWAT officers may be put in the position of using force. The man in charge of the DPD’s body-worn camera program justifies this exception by saying that criminals could use such footage to their advantage.
Among those at the center of an unprecedented lawsuit filed against Attorney General Jeff Sessions over federal scheduling of marijuana is Alexis Bortell, eleven, who had to move with her family from Texas to the Colorado community of Larkspur in order to legally use medical cannabis, which has eliminated the epileptic seizures she regularly suffered. As such, she represents a group of patients that her lawyer, Michael Hiller, describes as “medical marijuana refugees.”
A thus-far-unidentified 27-year-old man is suspected of having drowned after leaping from a cliff-jumping site at Green Mountain Reservoir in Summit County. The fatality is at least the fifteenth at a Colorado water attraction this year, and like Haley Clarke’s jumping-the-falls death in 2016, it spotlights the risks of extreme diving.
Are bears attracted to the scent of marijuana? The Stoner turns into a ranger for the week to tackle this one.
On Wednesday, August 2, members of a City Council committee overwhelmingly approved legislation that would prevent local authorities from cooperating with some of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s efforts to identify and/or deport undocumented residents in Denver. In a public hearing packed with activists, the Safety, Housing, Education and Homelessness Committee voted five to one to approve the bill, which will head to the full City Council later this month.
As lucky as we are to live in Colorado’s cannabis haven, it’s important to arm ourselves with knowledge about CBD and its healing effects. Here are six instances in which CBD helps Mile High residents, from treating Multiple Sclerosis to enhancing love lives.
What’s it like to be summoned to the White House? For Rick Enstrom, a longtime figure in Colorado Republican politics, an invitation to attend an August 1 forum about small businesses like Enstrom Candies, the longtime Colorado enterprise he helps run, was an opportunity to get another angle on the administration of President Donald Trump — one that doesn’t have anything to do with investigations into possible collusion with Russia or the other assorted controversies that have dominated coverage by most major media outlets other than Fox News, which caught Enstrom on camera at the event.
Sen. Cory Gardner has a plan to put the party back in the Grand Old Party. Gardner is headed for Disney World — with an entourage of donors, lobbyists, PAC contributors, and very special friends in tow.
This weekend, skeletal remains were found near South Boulder Creek east of Gross Reservoir. The area is not far from where Ryder Johnson vanished on January 17, 2016, after leaving his job at Eldora ski area.
There’s good news and bad news in Zumper’s report about rent prices in Denver during the summer of 2017. The good news is that the average cost of renting a one-bedroom apartment in the most expensive Denver neighborhood circa spring of this year has actually fallen by nearly $100 in three months, and there have been similar declines in three other top-ten areas. The bad news is that prices are up in six of the ten priciest neighborhoods, a couple of them by almost $200 over that same period.
