Ten Hydroponic Shops We’ve Grown to Trust in Denver
With so much competition, it can be hard to pick out the right place to start spending hundreds of dollars on lights, vents, nutrients and water reservoirs.
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“Fatal Attraction” Killer Jennifer Reali Finally Granted Parole
Jennifer Reali, popularly known as the “Fatal Attraction” killer, has reportedly been granted parole following a bumpy ride through the criminal justice system. In 2011, her sentence for murder was commuted by then-Governor Bill Ritter, but the state parole board subsequently rejected three appeals centered largely on the depth of her Christian faith.
Claim: If Trainer at Denver Jail Isn’t Removed, “More Inmates Will Likely Die”
Mere day after the City and County of Denver agreed to pay $4.65 million and change some jail policies to settle claims involving Michael Marshall, who died in a Denver detention center circa 2015 during a mental-health episode, a Career Service Board hearing officer has tossed out minor suspensions against Carlos Hernandez and Bret Garegnani, two deputies who took part in the incident.
Remembering Roy Halladay, Ex-Arvada West Pitcher Turned Baseball Legend
News that two-time Cy Young Award winning pitcher Roy Halladay had died on Tuesday, November 7, after a plane crash into the Gulf of Mexico shook the Major League Baseball community. After all, Halladay, who retired in 2013 after sixteen years of sparkling play for the Toronto Blue Jays and the Philadelphia Phillies, was widely considered a lock for the MLB Hall of Fame, and his reputation as a human being was just as impressive. But Halladay’s death was felt with particular shock in the Denver area, where he was born forty years ago and first came to the attention of scouts as a hurler for Arvada West High School.
Election Results for Denver and Beyond
With no statewide ballot issues, the election in Colorado yesterday, November 7, was hyper-local, with voters determining the fate of proposals that will directly impact them. Here are the latest numbers for Denver and other municipalities in the metro area in regard to the biggest issues.
Why Colorado Tokers Love Strawberries & Dream
Although very similar in lineage and name, Strawberries & Dream and Strawberry Dream are different strains. Strawberry Dream is bred from Strawberry Cough and Blue Dream, while its highfalutin’ cousin demands an ampersand and is bred from Pipe Dream — a hybrid of Blue Dream and Bio-Diesel — instead of Blue Dream.
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Nailed It! Dope Nailz Lacquer Glossing Up Denver Dispensaries
Dope Nailz Lacquer is sold in 32 dispensaries around the U.S., including six in Colorado as of this year.
Lyft, CDOT and Pot Industry Giving Ride Discounts to Decrease Stoned Driving
To help combat the risk of driving a car while under the influence of cannabis, three organizations at the center of the issue are giving out ride-sharing discounts for users across Colorado. Lyft, the Colorado Department of Transportation and the Marijuana Industry Group have teamed up again to encourage users to plan ahead for a sober ride through their collaborative 320 Movement program, offering monthly ride discounts through April 2018.
Lt. Governor Donna Lynne on Why She Should Become Governor in 2018
Donna Lynne, a Democrat who’s both Colorado’s lieutenant governor and the state’s chief operating officer, is running for governor in 2018. In the following in-depth interview, she touts her experience in both the public and private sectors and her intimate understanding of policy under her current boss, Governor John Hickenlooper, as reasons voters should choose her from among a very crowded field bidding for Colorado’s top elective office.
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Denver’s Ten Most Dangerous Intersections Right Now
The ten intersections with the most accidents in Denver right now include plenty of well-traveled roadways in the metro area. If you live and work in the Mile High City, there’s a good chance that you’ve driven through one or more of these danger zones this week.
Ask a Stoner: Why is U.S. Customs Intercepting My CBD Oil?
It is legal to order CBD products delivered to your door if they’re derived from hemp and come from an American company licensed to grow or process them, but ordering those same products from a different country isn’t the same to Uncle Sam.
Michael Moore: Columbine No Longer in Top Ten of Worst U.S. Mass Shootings
The day after former Colorado resident Devin Kelley murdered 26 people at a Sutherland Springs, Texas church on November 5, filmmaker Michael Moore tweeted that this tragedy has pushed the April 20, 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, the subject of his 2002 Oscar-winning documentary Bowling for Columbine, from the list of America’s ten worst mass shootings.
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Gunshots Will Ring Out in These Four Denver Neighborhoods Tonight
Tonight between 7 and 11 p.m., gunshots will ring out in four different neighborhoods around Denver — Westwood, Villa Park, Clayton and Montbello — as part of a Denver Police Department test of their “ShotSpotter” system.
Top Tweets About Who Sucks Harder as Broncos QB: Brock, Trevor or Paxton
You’ll have a hard time understanding the local sports pundits who predicted that your Denver Broncos would defeat the fast-rising Philadelphia Eagles during their face-off on Sunday, November 5, because they’ll be choking on crow feathers all day long. The final score of the contest was 51-23, but the actual game wasn’t that close. Moreover, the Twitter debate about who should start at quarterback for Denver as this already lost season moves forward focused less on whether Brock Osweiler, the man under center yesterday, is better than Trevor Siemian, the hurler he replaced, and more on which of them sucks harder.
Here’s the Colorado Place Where Texas Church Killer Devin Kelley Once Lived
On Sunday, November 5, just over a month after Stephen Paddock killed more than fifty people at a Las Vegas country music concert, and less than a week since Scott Ostrem gunned down three at a Thornton Walmart, a man named Devin Patrick Kelley murdered at least 26 parishioners at a church in tiny Sutherland Springs, Texas. We’ve subsequently learned that Kelley is a former member of the Air Force and a onetime resident of Colorado Springs who appears to have been fueled by strong feelings about religion, as were at least two killers who shook the community in the past.
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Our Ten Favorite Ask a Stoner Questions Since Legalization
Questions have ranged all over the spectrum in the five years since the voters spoke up (and toked up), but here’s the the ten most interesting, relevant and ridiculous we’ve received.
Reader: How Long Before Government Quits Lying to Us About Cannabis?
Readers think the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area’s latest report in its series “The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado” is flawed.
Reader: Fanboyism Is Why Assault Victims Feel Ashamed to Speak Out
In the wake of sex abuse coming to light in Hollywood and the media, victims of abuse in the sports world are coming forward. Jamie Naughright granted her first interview decades after Peyton Manning allegedly “placed his ‘naked butt and rectum'” on her face when he was a student at the University of Tennessee.
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Reader: Bougie People Can’t Golf at City Park, Such a Tragedy
Part of the City Park stormwater drainage project entails cutting down 260 trees, which protesters were none too happy about at a vigil they held this week for the trees. Readers have their own opinions about the trees and project as a whole.
Our Favorite Strain Reviews Since Legalization
Coloradans approved Amendment 64 five years ago; since then, more than 200 retail pot shops and MMJ dispensaries have opened in Denver, serving hundreds of strains. Here are ten of our favorites.
Another Denver Marijuana Grow Issues Pesticide Recall
Another medical marijuana cultivation has seen its products recalled because of potentially unsafepesticide residues, according to the Colorado Department of Revenue.
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Amendment 64 OGs Take a Victory Lap with CSU
The library’s Archives and Special Collections division started an initiative in 2015 to collect and document media coverage, oral histories, business and political materials, scholarly opinions and other content pertaining to the marijuana and industrial hemp movements in Colorado.