A major argument against legalization has been the lack of research, so now the cannabis industry is working to fill that void. Gram Research is launching a program that will provide information on consumption habits — and it will be getting the data directly from consumers every time they smoke.
Denver Police Department personnel took part in twelve officer-involved shootings last year, the most in at least half a decade. On average, a shooting took place once per month in 2016. Six people were killed in the incidents, but no police officers were injured, and neither have any cops been criminally charged to date.
Washington Park residents are not happy about the International Church of Cannabis. About forty people came to the West Washington Park Neighborhood Association’s board meeting on May 2; most of them were there to talk about the church, and only twenty minutes of the meeting had been set aside for that discussion.
Since its founding in 2005, the Denver Cruiser Ride has sponsored bicycle rides in the Mile High City that doubled as rolling costume parties every Wednesday throughout the summer. But for 2017, DCR founder Brad Evans has announced that the weekly rides will be replaced with five monthly events. In the meantime, he’s launching two new projects: Bike City, a cycling advocacy group, and happy hour meetups called City Spark that he sees as a way to bring together veteran Cruisers, longtime residents and folks who’ve just moved to the area to build a larger and more cohesive community.
When I was a kid, thinking about the Bermuda Triangle always freaked me out…and I grew up in Arizona. On the surface, the Bermuda Triangle and Triangle Kush have no real link other than the strain having been bred in Florida, but their mysterious similarities run deep — especially after a joint of the strain gets your conspiracy juices flowing.
Kevin Edwards, a 59 year old from Boulder, has been identified as the man who died at Loveland Ski Area on April 28. Edwards, the fourteenth person to die as the result of an accident at a Colorado ski resort during the 2016-17 season, was a devoted athlete whose last Facebook post, shared five days before his death, testified to his love of the activity he was enjoying when he lost his life.
Dear Stoner: I recently purchased two 500-milligram cartridges of CO2 oil, and one is not working. Is there a way to remove the oil so that I didn’t just waste $50? Meagan Dear Meagan: It’s frustrating that vaping cartridges still haven’t reached a true level of consistency; I’ve had the…
Erik Soliván is Denver’s latest hope when it comes to bridging the gap between homelessness, affordable housing and home ownership; even the name of his department, the Office of HOPE (Housing and Opportunities for People Everywhere), suggests as much. In January, Soliván was selected to head up the new department…
In the 35 years since it was created, Denver’s 16th Street Mall has morphed from the heart and soul of downtown Denver into a sometime civic embarrassment showing its age. But $68 million in leftover TIF money could give the place quite a facelift.
A Colorado Christian University administrator who wants to ban the Denver 420 Rally has agreed to debate the event’s lawyer, a major pro-pot figure who says a CCU petition launched in the wake of headlines about the alleged trashing of Civic Center Park following this year’s event is filled with falsehoods.
On Wednesday, May 3, Representative Jared Polis will host the inaugural Marijuana Big Thinker Talks in Washington, D.C., bringing in experts from across the country to talk about cannabis.
On the 2017 Best Places to Live rankings recently released by the Niche website, South Park Hill was named the top neighborhood in Denver, and one of the thirty finest in the entire United States.
Local celebrity Josh Blue, winner of Last Comic Standing in 2006, and is partnering with Mountain High Suckers to launch a new collection of suckers: Josh Blue’s Dream
Less than a month after excavating the backyard of a Pueblo home once occupied by the former boyfriend of Kelsie Schelling, a Denver woman who disappeared in February 2013 soon after she learned she was pregnant, police used heavy equipment to dig up portions of a field not far from the residence as part of a reinvigorated search effort. No new evidence was unearthed, but a recent post on the Help Find Kelsie Facebook page suggests that Schelling’s loved ones believe an arrest could be in the offing.
May in Denver is nothing but transition. May can be anything. May will be what you want it to be, or at least what it wants to be. May is snow and sun, outdoors and in, the promise of warmth to come and a reminder of the winter (that wasn’t). May is that friend that always agrees with you, even when you know for a fact that he or she definitely doesn’t. So yeah…May is great to hang with, but really, you can’t trust it.
Rocky Allen, an HIV-positive surgical technician sentenced last year to six-and-a-half years behind bars for allegedly swapping out needles in order to inject himself with a powerful opioid, has been ordered to spend an additional year in captivity for taking an unauthorized trip before reporting to prison.
The $3 million budget for incentive money to lure filmmakers to Colorado, which had been marked for elimination in March, has instead been slashed to $750,000. Colorado Film Commissioner Donald Zuckerman, who argued in this space for the $3 million figure to be increased last October, is relieved that some money remains for the program. But he sees little chance of attracting big Hollywood productions to the state for the next year as a result of this development.
What appears to be the first fatal accident on a Colorado waterway during the 2017 season happened yesterday, April 30. The thus-far-unidentified victim was a man taking part in a commercial rafting trip on the Arkansas River. The casualty is the first of its kind to have taken place in April over the past three years, a period that’s been particularly deadly in Colorado.
The Drug Enforcement Administration recently terrified parents with this tweet: “Find out where your kids hide drugs,” with a link to a page on GetSmartAboutDrugs.gov, a DEA-produced site designed specifically for parents, educators and caregivers. This particular page, titled Hiding Places, lists where people should look if they think kids might be smoking marijuana. Here are ten possibilities.
Want to get involved politically? You’ll have plenty of opportunities in Denver in May.
The week after the 4/20 Rally was held below the State Capitol — and the office of the Colorado governor —John Hickenlooper met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, urging him to keep the feds out of the state’s business, and pointing out how none of the ominous predictions made in the wake of the passage of Amendment 64 have panned out.
Homelessness is a divisive topic in Denver, but readers agree on one thing: Too many people are homeless.
