Marijuana home grows may be “the new meth houses,” according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. In a June report, the DEA’s Denver division compared residential marijuana grows in Colorado to “the meth houses of the 1990s” and warned of the potential threats and nuisances of home-growing operations. “Marijuana grows often…
Reports of rising heroin use and drug dealing at Denver parks and along the Cherry Creek Greenway are backed up by statistics. According to Denver Parks and Recreation, police have made 128 felony arrests along the Cherry Creek trail, mostly for drug-related offenses, and over the past year, an estimated…
Stagecoach State Park, south of Steamboat Springs near Oak Creek, is among many gorgeous slices of land incorporated in the Colorado Parks and Wildlife system. But late last month, the bucolic setting played host to a gruesome scene of the sort officials hope to avoid over Labor Day weekend, summer’s…
“Tastes so good, makes a grown man cry. Sweet. Cherry. Pie.” Those hair-metal lyrics compare a diner dessert to a woman’s genitalia — but I can’t refrain from singing the line whenever I come across a certain strain. However, I didn’t take the time to explain this to the budtender,…
A lawsuit seeking to appeal Littleton’s approval of a mixed-use development in the city’s historic downtown has been dismissed. Arapahoe County District Court Judge Kurt Horton found that plaintiff Leah Burkett does not have the right to appeal the city’s approval of a site-development plan for The Grove, a 260-unit…
In recent months, one of the hottest topic on Westword’s news blog has been the high price of rent in the metro area. Now, we offer a change of pace — a list of the Denver neighborhoods where the rent is least expensive. The numbers come from Zumper, which compiled median…
David Edelstein, founder of Team Pit-a-Full, a pro-pit-bull advocacy organization and training service, has been working for years to overturn pit-bull bans in Denver and Aurora. Now, after Conifer resident Susan Shawl was killed in an attack by two terrier-pit bull mixes owned by her son, he sees the battle…
Dear Stoner: I’m in the midst of a devastating family situation and am so blindsided by grief and stress that I need something to calm me down and help me fall asleep. I don’t wish to smoke, but am open to other suggestions. Elizabeth Dear Elizabeth: If this situation is…
This week, the City of Denver is converting Blake Street from a one-way route to a two-way traffic between 35th Street and Broadway, in the heart of RiNo. And as part of the process, crew members will be putting down new bicycle-lane markings: a stylized version of the RiNo Art…
Last week, we told you about a fatal police shooting in Westminster — the second officer-involved metro-area shooting in two nights. (The previous one took place in Lakewood and resulted in the death of suspected car thief Robin Barber.) Now, Adams County authorities have identified the man killed in the…
A few weeks back, we published a Q&A with Forrest Fenn, the New Mexico eccentric who says he hid $2 million in gold and jewels “somewhere in the mountains north of Santa Fe” as a way of getting people to experience nature rather than simply “sitting on the couch playing…
It’s hard to believe that even in 2016, accused rapists still use the “she was asking for it” excuse in court and Congress still thinks it knows a woman’s body better than she does. Enter Denver Go Topless Day, which happened on Sunday. Hundreds gathered near the Capitol sans shirts…
Andrew Schrot, the CEO of Denver-based Blue Kudu, moved to Colorado from Tampa, Florida, with his brother in the summer of 2010, excited to get involved in the cannabis industry. “We thought about edibles because at that time there wasn’t a consistent, quality product that patients could rely upon,” Schrot recalls. When…
Editor’s note: Two social-cannabis-use measures are currently collecting signatures in an attempt to earn a place on the Denver ballot this November: the Neighborhood Supported Cannabis Consumption Pilot Program and the Denver Responsible Use Initiative, sponsored by Denver NORML. Earlier this week, we published a post headlined Inside the Neighborhood Supported…
The van leaves the Stout Street Health Center in downtown Denver on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Others climb aboard in Colorado Springs or Pueblo before the van heads east, into the vast, sparsely populated grasslands of the Lower Arkansas Valley. The passengers are all referrals, vetted and pre-approved, like sailors…
For more than half-a-decade, administrators at CU Boulder have done everything possible to insure that the university no longer appears among the top ten on the Princeton Review’s annual list of reefer madness schools. And once again, they’ve failed. As usual, CU Boulder is on the 2016 roster — and…
Two measures that would have imposed tighter restrictions on Colorado’s oil-and-gas industry have been declared ineligible for the November ballot, amid conflicting accusations of fraud and foul play. Secretary of State Wayne Williams announced this morning that, based on random sampling, neither of the initiatives collected enough valid signatures to…
Raymond Garcia, a Republican running for a seat in the state House, says memes he’s shared on his personal Facebook page are jokes and a response to the politically charged material his “liberal” friends share on their feeds. In the last few days Garcia has shared a meme of Democratic…
White Cop Kills Black Man. This headline is disturbing, but hardly surprising anymore. Sides have long been drawn on the issue of use of force by law enforcement. Black Lives Matter activists blast police for racism and murdering people of color without consequence. Blue Lives Matter cops scold activists for…
Rising crime and violence on the 16th Street Mall earlier this year prompted new safety plans for the area from both public agencies, by way of a Denver Police Department plan to triple patrols, and the private sector, as seen in the hiring of unarmed security guards who came on board earlier…
On Saturday night, August 27, thanks to my daughter, I had the pleasure of watching the Denver Broncos take on the Los Angeles Rams from the south stands of what continues to be known as Sports Authority Field at Mile High — although probably not for much longer. And to…
A crowd estimated in the hundreds took part in Denver Go Topless Day, the local version of a national event intended to strike a blow in favor of gender equality and against local rules (like ones in Fort Collins) that treat the nipples of men and women differently. Both men…
