Beginning at 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday morning, police started arriving at Confluence Park at the intersection of 15th and Little Raven streets to enforce curfew rules that ban individuals from sleeping in Denver parks overnight. According to videos live-streamed from the Facebook page of Denver Homeless Out Loud, there were…
“The Porno, The Hitchhiker & The Weed,” tonight’s episode of Viceland’s Vice Does America, will bring viewers to Denver as hosts Abdullah Saeed, Will Cooper and Martina de Alba visit the Denver Relief grow house and discuss Colorado’s marijuana legalization. This was not Saeed’s first foray into the world of…
In the midst of a grim summer of terrorist attacks, political strife and racial tension, it can be difficult to stay focused on the positive. But folks at the Denver Public Library, which has been in the vanguard of discussions about homelessness in the city, have an unusual day of…
Dear Stoner: I’ll be visiting Colorado this summer, and everyone is telling me I can only buy a quarter-ounce. Is that true? If so, is that for every shop, or can I buy more at another? Based B Dear Based: It used to be that way, but not any longer!…
On Monday the Navajo Nation formally endorsed a Superfund cleanup of contaminated mines in southwestern Colorado – including an Environmental Protection Agency-caused spill at the Gold King Mine site that released millions of gallons of contaminated water into the Animas River last August, tainting land stretching from Silverton down to…
A sign thirty feet high can be seen from exit 204 off I-25, announcing The Clinic’s new location at Colorado and Buchtel boulevards. The store, which opened on July 8 in a former payday loan location, now has bright white walls and high ceilings; the space was designed to seem open and…
Jose Cruz-Hernandez knew very little about where he was, aside from the fact that he was in a city named Aurora. He’d never been to the state of Colorado before, and yet suddenly he found himself blinking into the bright Colorado sunshine for the first time, the Rocky Mountains posing…
If civic engagement is a game, Denver City Council scored majorly on Monday night. All members but one were present for the council’s first public-comment session — an initiative championed by first-term councilman Paul Kashmann and approved in May — during which residents are allowed to speak about a topic…
Mayor Michael Hancock delivered his annual State of the City address yesterday on the plaza outside Denver International Airport. His speech touched on a number of controversial issues in this city, including homelessness — but protesters who came to the event with signs were told to put them away and…
Starting today, you can purchase weed that’s been given a quality-assurance grade. Created by the Trichome Institute, a Colorado-based company dedicated to science, education and certification, the Trichome Assurance Grade (TAG) system analyzes potentially unhealthy, even dangerous, parts of marijuana for which the government doesn’t require testing. Currently Colorado only compels…
The shadow of recent police shootings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota loomed over Mayor Michael Hancock’s State of the City address this morning at Denver International Airport. And it was not just the silent protesters holding Black Lives Matter signs on the sidelines that raised the call for criminal-justice…
When Scott Rollins started hacking away at the weeds and trash in the 4200 block of York Street a few months ago, he wasn’t looking for a hand — or a handout. Recently released on parole after 31 years in prison, the 59-year-old former bank robber was just seeking to…
Want to take your weed-snob knowledge to the next level? Under President Max Montrose and CEO Jim Nathanson, the Trichome Institute offers a series of cannabis courses, culminating with the “weed sommelier,” or interpening, class. In his interpening — technically “interpreting terpenes” — class, Montrose regularly guides cannabis enthusiasts through the ins…
Denver Nuggets fans have a lot to look forward to going into the next season. The team has a bright future, reasons to keep the current roster mostly intact, and, for many reasons, is nearly impossible not to root for. Intentionally or not, the team is an oddball group of youngsters…
Just over a week ago, Denver officials admitted they used tens of thousands of dollars from a private donation fund connected with Denver’s Road Home to help pay for street sweeps that dismantled homeless encampments in early March. Calling it an “accounting error,” Mayor Michael Hancock said that the funds would…
Denver’s Civic Center will live up to its name today, with several civic demonstrations set for the park, from protests over police brutality to a satire of the mayor’s State of the City speech. Black Lives Matter 5280 started a 135-hour vigil — to honor the 135 black people killed…
In this week’s cover story, Gregory Daurer reveals that long before Colorado legalized marijuana, the state had a reputation as the glue-sniffing capital of the country. This information caught plenty of readers by surprise, including one who shares a not-always-flattering list of other things for which Colorado is known. Says Michelle Lee: I thought…
This weekend, Downtown Denver is again hosting Meet in the Street, a celebration of the 16th Street Mall filled with music performances, expanded patio seating and this round, luche libre wrestlers and theBigWonderful. What you won’t see? Mall buses. But one reader is worried about something else you don’t normally…
Amendment 139, a proposal that’s seeking a spot on the November ballot, is getting attention primarily for a section that would limit the potency of marijuana products to 16 percent THC — a reduction for a huge number of currently available items. But that’s not all the measure would do…
In response to the tragedies in Dallas and “for the lives lost in St. Paul, Baton Rouge and too often across the nation,” yesterday Mayor Michael Hancock issued a call to action in Denver. In response, churches and community organizations across metro Denver “are opening up their doors so that…
Seventeen years after the attack on Columbine High School, amateur sleuths have posted a video that calls into question — again — the official version of events, and their sequence, surrounding the most infamous school shooting in American history. The video features brief, grainy images that appear to show the…
How did a Louisiana-bred associate professor of African-American Studies at Georgia’s Valdosta State University come to the conclusion that Denver was “the most important place in the country to the glue-sniffing epidemic”? For historian and author Thomas Aiello, it started when he began researching his 2010 book Bayou Classic: The…
