Lost in the debate over whether Overland Golf Course should be closed temporarily to host a rock concert is another, larger question: Should Overland (or any of Denver’s seven other public golf facilities) be closed permanently to provide new park and event land for all residents to use and enjoy all year long?
While every dispensary in Colorado needed some time to recover after 4/20, they stayed on their Insta-game. Here’s our favorite weed porn posted by dispensaries this week.
Since early February, a coalition of immigrant rights advocates, lawyers and community members have been working on a detailed sanctuary-city policy that they hope the City of Denver will adopt into law. The policy was unveiled on Thursday night at the Denver Inner City Parish before a standing-room-only audience that…
Antron Fogler, 51, has a long, long, long criminal history filled with plenty of creepiness. And if the accusations pressed against him by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office are accurate, he’s added a repulsive new act. He’s been arrested on allegations that he pawed at least two women, and masturbated in front of one, while posing as a door-to-door salesman.
The Denver Broncos’ selection of Utah tackle Garett Bolles with the twentieth pick in last night’s NFL Draft is the squad’s riskiest first-round choice since Tim Tebow in 2010. Like Tebow, Bolles is getting great reviews as a person. But the notices are much more scattered when it comes to his skills as a player, especially one who’ll be able to contribute right away.
Governor John Hickenlooper and a group of other governors met with Attorney General Jeff Sessions this week while in Washington, D.C., for the National Governors Association Winter Meeting. On their agenda? Marijuana. “We approached Attorney General Sessions with the notion that if we’re going to make changes, we should do it together and kind of collaborate on it,” he told Chuck Todd on MSNBC.
Carfentanil, an extremely powerful synthetic opioid best known as an elephant tranquilizer, has been linked to two heroin-related deaths in Colorado. But a local expert on addiction who’s recently helped treat patients who’ve used the substance says it could have played a role in even more fatal overdoses, thereby quietly contributing to the shocking rise of heroin deaths in Denver and Colorado as a whole.
Does marijuana improve sex? Our Stoner has the answer.
Wendy Bergen, a former reporter with KCNC, the station now known as CBS4, died on Wednesday, April 26, following a brain aneurysm. Bergen’s television career ended in scandal after she was convicted of staging a dogfight for a 1990 report called “Blood Sport.” But according to KNUS talk-show host Peter Boyles, who was a friend of Bergen’s for thirty years, she used this personal disaster to fuel a post-TV life devoted to helping others in trouble.
Today, Thursday, April 27, U.S. District Court Judge William Martinez granted class certification in a lawsuit that challenges Denver’s homeless sweeps. According to the attorney representing the plaintiffs, Jason Flores-Williams, the ruling is historic: It was made on civil-rights grounds, and the certified class covers every single person who finds themselves…
Paralyzed in a police shooting, Darrell Havens fought the system tenaciously — until he passed away, at age 29, in a Colorado Springs hospital.
On Saturday, April 29, former professor Ward Churchill will return to the University of Colorado Boulder, the institution that fired him ten years earlier in what the author of a report that blasted CU’s actions calls “the most notorious academic freedom controversy in a generation.”
Maria de Jesus Jimenez Sanchez, an undocumented woman with four children, one of whom is developmentally delayed, has been deported from the Denver area to Mexico, even though her only crime beyond unauthorized border crossings was driving without a license. Her attorney says she was forced to walk back into Mexico by border agents who told her she’d be shot if she dared to look back.
Star Wars strains have quietly claimed a healthy niche in a galaxy that takes us far, far away. Many of them trace their roots back to OG Kush; Death Star, Darth Vader OG, Skywalker OG and Yoda OG are all either phenotypes of, or bred from, an OG strain. Colorado breeder Rare Dankness continued that powerful line of strains with StarKiller OG.
The costs in the ten most expensive Denver neighborhoods to rent a one-bedroom apartment are at a level associated with the priciest metro-area places for two-bedroom rentals less than two and a half years ago.
Every year Xcel Energy honors organizations with energy efficiency awards, and for the first time, a cannabis business is on the list of honorees. LivWell won the company’s Lighting Efficiency Achievement Award for its efforts to save energy and reduce itsimpact on the environment. “It’s the highest energy saving for…
Brock Franklin has been found guilty on 30 of 34 charges originally pressed against him in an indictment over a violent child sex ring. In addition, five of six alleged Franklin associates accused of taking part in the scheme, which involved physical abuse, a pistol-whipping, forced sex and the use of drugs to maintain loyalty, have received punishment of their own, ranging from deferred sentences to an eighteen-year prison jolt. In the last case, charges were dismissed.
Arturo Hernandez Garcia, a Mexican immigrant who made headlines when he spent nine months in sanctuary during 2015 at the First Unitarian Society in Denver, has reportedly been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Hernandez Garcia was the subject of a Westword cover story, “Sacred Ground.” He’s been fighting…
After Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, the American Civil Liberties Union launched a major grassroots resistance platform called People’s Power. With help from the Bernie Sanders campaign, the movement’s website, peoplepower.org, has been a hub and organizing tool for creating events across the country. On Tuesday, one of those…
Starting May 1, Denver dispensaries will be allowed to stay open until 10 p.m. Denver City Council approved the three-hour extension on Monday, April 24, after studying the issue for the last few months.
An attorney who plays a key role in the annual Denver 4/20 Rally is pushing back against criticism of the event delivered by Mayor Michael Hancock and other officials at an April 24 press conference. Rob Corry insists that organizers didn’t violate their permit for Civic Center Park and rejects the possibility of fines because the location was still strewn with garbage the next morning. He also feels that Denver should accept some responsibility for problems at the gathering, including long security lines that eventually led to some attendees breaking down a fence — and he makes it clear that should city reps attempt to prohibit the rally entirely, they’d wind up in court.
A new study indicates that younger people are consuming marijuana in healthier ways — and see marijuana as healthier than other substances. The Cannabis Culture Report produced by DIGG, a market research firm, surveyed 1,105 Americans and 1,108 Canadians for their responses on several issues.
