Adams County District Attorney Dave Young has announced his intention to charge the fifteen-year-old suspected of murdering Thornton’s Kiaya Campbell, age ten, earlier this month as an adult. By doing so, he’s following in the footsteps of many previous Colorado prosecutors who’ve taken alleged juvenile killers to adult court. Below, see fourteen examples of what happened when they did.
Is anyone fooled by hash pens? According to our Stoner, only those who want to be, since these are the equivalent of brown paper bags.
Fox News, which has a history of portraying Colorado pot smokers as apathetic morons, recently ran a piece suggesting that the Western Slope community of Durango has been overtaken by panhandlers in the wake of recreational cannabis legalization. The head of a business organization that created a Facebook video ripping the article as false says the Fox News reporter with whom he spoke seemed disinterested in any information that contradicted his conclusion that weed had put the town on the fast road to hell even though the supposed link between homelessness and cannabis has been widely discredited.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recently signed a Secretarial Order to review current federal and state sage-grouse conservation plans. Colorado had worked hard to make sure those plans were collaborative and fair.
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws is sending a clear signal to the administration of President Donald Trump following the latest negative words and deeds aimed at legal marijuana in Colorado and beyond by Justice Department officials Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein. In the words of NORML policy director Justin Strekal, “Should the Department of Justice decide to throw out the Tenth Amendment and respect for states’ rights as they govern their own interstate commerce, they’re going to have a fight on their hands.”
The Continental Divide Trail, which stretches 3,100 miles through five states from the border of Mexico to the border of Canada, is considered one of the toughest thru-hikes in the United States. The trail meanders through some of the most extreme, remote and weather-prone terrain in the Rocky Mountains, and…
Over a hundred people crammed into a hearing room in the Webb building for nearly three hours on June 13, to give Denver officials a final round of feedback on the proposed social-consumption regulations to implement Initiative 300, which Denver voters approved last November.
The Larry and Kathie J morning show, which was recently canceled by KS 107.5 after a contract dispute despite being one of Denver’s most popular radio programs over the past decade-plus, is coming back to the Mile High City, and the world, next month as part of a new Internet radio station funded by The Green Solution, one of Colorado’s largest marijuana-dispensary chains. Co-host Larry Ulibarri, who admits to being frustrated by the duo’s exit from KS 107.5, provides a preview of the new concept, which he sees as unusual in all the right ways.
A new landmark study conducted by BDS Analytics reveals cannabis users in Colorado and California are some of the happiest, most successful and well-adjusted adults.
Scott Pack has been indicted by an Arapahoe County grand jury for what attorney Matthew Buck has called “the largest fraud case in the history of Colorado’s marijuana industry.” Buck, who filed a lawsuit in the matter earlier this year, says the grand jury’s findings tie Pack to what prosecutors describe as a massive operation that grew marijuana for distribution outside Colorado and previously led to the indictment of sixteen people, including Pack associate Rudy Saenz. Among those reportedly indicted along with Pack is Renee Rayton, a former officer for the state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division.
Moonshine Haze blew up in 2011, winning best sativa in the High Times Cannabis Cup and bringing Colorado breeder Rare Dankness to national prominence. After acquiring an Afghani-heavy cut of Amnesia Haze, Rare Dankness crossed it with sativa Nevil’s Wreck for a confident, cloudy high. This Moonshine is stiffer than most, easily reaching THC levels of 22 to 27 percent. It doesn’t have the herbal spice most Hazes are known for, instead pushing out sour, intense aromas and tastes of berries and pine with hints of bubblegum.
Like the rest of Denver, Broadway is booming. As you travel one of the city’s “great thoroughfares” from north to south,and back again, you pass through the city’s past…and see glimpses of its future.
According to a new study in an ongoing research program by University of Boulder scientist Daniel Lee, eye expressions — even stinkeye — actually serve advantageous evolutionary functions.
On Monday afternoon, Mayor Michael Hancock and Executive Director of Public Safety Stephanie O’Malley stood on the steps of the City and County Building, along with many community members, to announce the initiative Safe Haven.
Rusty Barnhart has been convicted of second-degree kidnapping in a 1984 attack that had gone unsolved for decades. But neither Barnhart nor alleged co-conspirator Inocencio “Junior” Trevino, who’s currently awaiting trial, were charged with sexual assault in the case despite plentiful DNA evidence and Trevino’s alleged claim that the victim “wanted it.”
Colorado’s new laws address a wide array of issues in commercial marijuana, industrial hemp and the grey and black markets, but Governor Hickenlooper hasn’t given every bill his official go-ahead. Here’s a breakdown of each marijuana related bill Hickenlooper has seen, the actions he’s taken with them and when they’ll become effective.
The announcement that Kim Christiansen will take over the main anchor slot at 9News following the departure at month’s end of Adele Arakawa, who revealed her plans to retire last year in a bizarre blast at fake news, suggests that the station’s signature programs will continue their drift toward softer coverage intended to appeal to the aging demographic that still tunes in to television newscasts.
PTSD and stress disorders were just added to the list of conditions for which you can get MMJ in Colorado. And the others?
In an extraordinary attempt to save the job of CU Boulder head football coach Mike MacIntyre, who is credited with turning around a gridiron program that’s struggled since a recruiting scandal in the early 2000s, the university has suspended chancellor Phil DiStefano for ten days and mandated that MacIntyre and athletic director Rick George make $100,000 donations to a domestic-violence fund over the mishandling of abuse charges against ex-assistant coach Joe Tumpkin.
Everyone knows Colorado is traditionally divided between Democrats, Republicans and Independents. But the new presidential administration has brought out an even wider variety of the political spectrum (and Colorado has even folded a few new political parties into the mix). Whether you support Donald Trump or not, this past weekend…
The Unity Party of Colorado recently surpassed the 1,000-registered-voter tally to qualify as an official minor party in the state, which means candidates won’t have to petition their way onto the ballot.
Rick Lewis, a star on both The Fox and KOA, has been officially named by the latter to the broadcasting crew for Denver Broncos games, joining his afternoon partner Dave Logan in the booth, with former Bronco Tyler Polumbus contributing as a sideline reporter. Lewis will replace former Broncos wide receiver Ed McCaffrey, who left the gig in April after contract negotiations collapsed, just as he did in Jacksonville last December for what turned out to be a successful dry run.
