The Cough — also known as Colorado Cough and Fort Collins Cough, depending on whom you ask — is a homegrown strain out of Fort Collins, popping up in Colorado State University dorms in the late ’90s and gaining popularity as the medical marijuana industry expanded its footprint after 2008.
The ACLU of Colorado has filed a class-action lawsuit seeking a dramatic change in the Colorado Department of Corrections hepatitis C policy, calling its approach to rationing treatment a violation of constitutional guarantees against cruel and unusual punishment.
On August 21, the moon will cover the sun over a narrow, sixty- to seventy-mile swath across the U.S. for the first time in nearly a century.
Kent Thiry, the CEO of Denver-based kidney dialysis giant DaVita, who was recently satirized in brutal fashion on an episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, has opted out of running for Colorado governor in 2018. But while this development removes one well-heeled potential guv hopeful from the equation, the amount of money expected to be spent by current competitors and those still flirting with candidacy will likely be record-setting.
It only takes one hail storm to see how competitive the roofing wars of Denver get, with companies offering hundreds of dollars in gift cards and rebates to buy a new roof. But one roofer is combining his trade with another Colorado pastime for a higher return, offering customers $500 in weed if they buy a new roof.
Prosecutor George Brauchler, who’s running for Colorado governor in 2018, is using Shawn Geerdes’s conviction for murdering Jason Dosa nearly three years ago as an opportunity to criticize legal pot even though the marijuana grow in which the two partnered was illegal.
Although rent prices in Denver have been sky high in recent years due in part to a severe shortage of available units, that situation may be changing. A new report estimates that more than 13,000 new apartments will open up in Denver over the course of 2017, with the majority of them situated in some of the city’s hottest and most rapidly growing areas.
Eric Ashby, 31, remains missing after his raft reportedly flipped on a challenging part of the Arkansas River on June 28. A friend who’s leading online efforts to raise awareness about the situation believes Ashby died searching for what’s described as a $2 million treasure hidden by New Mexico author Forrest Fenn. If he’s right, Ashby is the third person from Colorado to perish while looking for this prize in just over a year and a half, and the second in two months.
A reader wonders if people are buying weed off the street in Colorado anymore. Our Stoner answers.
The fifteen-year-old boy who was pulled from Cherry Creek Reservoir on July 22, as recounted in our previous coverage, on view below, has died. The teen has been identified as Trent Nims, and while the final cause of death hasn’t been determined, drowning is suspected. He is at least the fourteenth person to die at a Colorado water attraction in 2017. Continue for our earlier report.
Even without the threat of the American Health Care Act, which would have cut about 40 percent of the organization’s budget and billions from Medicaid funding, the leaders of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains are taking measures to ensure that as many people have access to care as possible.
On January 20, as supporters and protesters alike gathered inside the National Mall and along a parade route in Washington, D.C., for Donald Trump’s inauguration, a different kind of protest was gathering about ten blocks north, in Logan Circle.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that a company acted improperly when it fired medical marijuana patient Cristina Barbuto after she tested positive for pot. The Colorado Supreme Court reached the opposite conclusion in an analogous 2015 case, determining that DISH had the right to dismiss paralyzed MMJ patient Brandon Coats following his own positive test for cannabis. And while the Barbuto finding won’t directly impact the Colorado case, Coats’s lawyer sees a trend toward granting more patient protections here and in other medical marijuana states.
For years, the tragic 2012 murder of Dylan Redwine shared one major element in common with the JonBenét Ramsey case. In both slayings, a parent or parents were under suspicion, yet law enforcers never brought criminal charges. But that changed on Saturday, July 22, when Mark Redwine, Dylan’s father, was arrested in Bellingham, Washington, on suspicion of killing his son. And a grand jury indictment released in the wake of the bust and accessible below reveals why in greater detail than has been previously shared with the public.
For this year’s iteration of Colorado’s campaign to discourage underage marijuana use, the state teamed up with TEDxMileHigh and media company Cactus to take teens on immersive field trips with movers and shakers in Denver.
There’s so much road work in Denver right now that getting from one point to another without sprouting an epic migraine is practically impossible. Is that an inevitable outgrowth of growth?
As Colorado grows get more sophisticated, this state’s strains are becoming more definitive. For over a year, Herbert Fuego has offered a weekly review of a local strain, assessing its strength and affects and letting readers know where they can get it. But are these reviews useful?
Pushing cannabinoids onto wax paper isn’t just creating symmetry – it’s creating symmetry you can smoke. Try not to relive too many traumatic memories with these Rorschach rosin blots.
Mobility is a hot issue, what with a major transformation to I-70 on the way (maybe), a population boom in Denver that’s clogged its streets and light rail woes dragging down commuters. Another hot-button issue? Parking.
This week, Wheelchair Sports Camp MC Kalyn Heffernan and nine other members of the advocacy organization ADAPT pleaded not guilty to trespassing and other charges related to a three-day sit-in at the office of Senator Cory Gardner on June 29. And next week, several of the activists, many of whom have disabilities, are scheduled to be back in court regarding another matter. On Monday, July 24, the first of those cited for a previous protest targeting Gardner will go on trial, and there’s definitely crossover between the two groups.
Tay Anderson is 19 years old, and is the youngest person to ever run for a Denver School Board position. But five years ago, things looked very different.
One of the many stinging jokes in season one of the excellent Netflix series Dear White People involves college journalist Lionel Higgins, played by DeRon Horton, discovering that he can use a fake ID with a photo that looks nothing like him because Caucasians can’t tell black men apart. But Mervin Cabe wasn’t so lucky. He was recently busted in Aspen, one of the whitest places on the planet even when there’s no snow on the ground, after unsuccessfully impersonating former NFL player Chad Johnson, whom he doesn’t resemble in the slightest.
