For the last four years, anytime police seized cannabis in a criminal investigation, they’ve been required to care for it — either by keeping the plants alive or by returning the marijuana in a usable form to the owner. That’s no longer the case.
The death of John Patrick Walter in Fremont County jail was absolutely unnecessary, according to a lawsuit filed by his family. The complaint contends that Walter was allowed to slowly, painfully expire due to withdrawal from a prescription medication by representatives of a private, for-profit company under contract to provide health-care services for inmates.
Just days after Colorado Department of Transportation officials received a long-awaited final okay to proceed with a $1.8-billion makeover of I-70 through north Denver and Aurora, opponents of the highway expansion are holding a “community town hall event” tonight to discuss what options remain for putting the brakes on the project.
Luke Pelham says he didn’t foresee what was going to happen the night he went to his friend Aaron Tuneberg’s apartment with another eighteen-year-old he barely knew. Pelham didn’t think it would turn tragic — not even when the other guy brought along a bat and a golf club. “If…
It’s taken nearly eight years, but members of the Martinez family, who perform together in a mariachi band, have finally won their lawsuit against the City of Denver over a wrong-house police raid during which they were beaten by mistake, then wrongly charged with assault against the officers who’d attacked them.
Just shy of two years after a pair of Denver police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Jessie Hernandez while she was behind the wheel of a stolen car, the department for which they work has announced that they will face no discipline in the controversial case, since their actions didn’t violate policy about firing into a moving vehicle in place at the time of the incident.
Thirty percent of marijuana businesses are audited each year by the IRS; cannabis companies are always dealing with new regulations. Wurk is trying to work out solutions for these challenges.
Why has dispensary service been so slow in Colorado lately? Our Stoner has the answer.
Nearly three years ago, the first of three marijuana amnesty boxes was installed at Aspen-Pitkin County Airport. The idea behind the boxes was to give fliers a way to dispose of legal cannabis before they boarded a plane bound for a destination where the substance might be against the law, and Pitkin County Undersheriff Ron Ryan considers the containers to be a success, even though weed isn’t the only aromatic thing sometimes being left in them.
Recent evidence suggests that the Denver Police Department has been dedicating manpower and department resources to monitoring protesters and activists; last year, these efforts included the purchase of a powerful social media surveillance tool called Geofeedia. As Westword addressed in the cover story “Persons of Interest,” these revelations raise concerns that the department is violating its own policy against collecting or storing intelligence on individuals who are not engaged in criminal activity, but are solely exercising First Amendment-protected activities. This is also the same type of surveillance that put the city and the DPD in hot water in 2002 when its “Spy Files” program was discovered.
On Saturday, January 21, as at least half-a-million demonstrators flooded the National Mall in Washington, D.C, for the Women’s March on Washington, there was a very different kind of scene in the basement of the nearby H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse of the D.C. Superior Court. While the mood at the Women’s March was buoyant, there was an air of gravity at the courthouse.
After four states legalized recreational marijuana last year and twice that many approved new medical marijuana laws, at least eleven more are considering changing their laws in 2017. Here’s which ones are proposing what legislation: 1. Connecticut Not only are lawmakers hoping to expand Connecticut’s five-year-old medical marijuana legislation, but…
Courtney Plante has taken a plea agreement in regard to attempted murder allegations against her significant other Sean Overstreet dating back to January 2016, when she was nineteen and he was 37. The deal trims time off her possible sentence but doesn’t let her off the hook for a crime against her former teacher that was as violent as it was bizarre.
Over recent weeks, there have been a series of high-profile crimes on Regional Transportation District buses in the Denver metro area, including a stabbing, an assault and a case of indecent exposure. Yet an RTD spokesman argues that despite such regrettable incidents, the district’s buses, trains and assorted properties are safe — and getting safer all the time.
President Donald Trump isn’t the only person to question attendance estimates at a big event over the past few days. I do, too. The audience-size figures most frequently floated after the Women’s March on Denver, which took place on Saturday, January 21, was “more than 100,000.” But to me, the Civic Center Park area seemed just as it packed as it did during the Broncos’ Super Bowl 50 Victory rally in February 2016 — and the crowd at that gathering was supposed to be one-million strong.
The cannabis industry is growing, and would-be employees in the field are growing up, judging from a recent job fair.
While tens of thousands of women filled Civic Center Park during the Women’s March on Denver, hundreds of Coloradans joined in the Women’s March on Washington
Like it or not, on Friday, January 20, Donald Trump officially became the 45th president of the United States. But his impact on Colorado began when he became the Republican candidate. From more anti-Trump protests to marijuana and immigration, here are six ways Trump has already riled us up (and…
The Women’s March on Denver broke through the glass ceiling of all attendance expectations on Saturday, January 21, drawing huge crowds that wound up tripling the initial estimates of 40,000 attendees (and the count could grow). One day after Donald Trump’s inauguration, which itself disappointed in terms of numbers, the American people were clearly determined to make a statement. What that statement was, of course, varied from person to person and sign to sign. Some were traditional, some were profane, some were poignant — and some were beautifully geeky. After all, while you’re speaking your mind and participating in the democratic process, you might as well let your freak flags fly, too. In that spirit, here are the top ten nerd-tastic signs we saw at the Women’s March on Denver.
A destructive march by anarchists leads to mayhem and a standoff in Washington, D.C. on Inauguration Day,
On the first morning of the Trump presidency, we’re giving you a rundown of the best marijuana posts on Instagram saying goodbye to Obama and ushering in a new administration. From naming strains in honor of our departing president to protesting in Washington D.C., the cannabis community was vocal about…
While rumors are flying that there could soon be more sweeps of the homeless in Denver, two court cases filed against the city late last year are slowly working their way through the county and federal judicial systems. In anticipation of upcoming developments, we’ve put together a reminder of what the cases are about, why they’re important, and where they stand.
