As cannabis industry experts and commercialization opponents continue to warn about the big tobacco takeover of legal pot, at least we know one local operation doesn’t want any part of Philip Morris. “We don’t want to be Jim Beam; we’re Leopold,” explains Joe Patierno, general manager of Kush Concentrates.
Each year around this time, Forbes magazine reveals the identities of the wealthiest Americans — and since 2014, we’ve highlighed the five richest Coloradans according to their position on what’s popularly known as the Forbes 400. But while the same quintet appears on this year’s roster as was the case three years ago, there’s been a notable shift in position that’s lifted Fort Collins’s Pat Stryker into a tie with President Donald Trump. As of today, October 24, though, Stryker is worth more.
Crater Trail is an unofficial feature of Rocky Mountain National Park, but it’s also a well-established one, having been in place for generations. Now, however, an environmental assessment conducted by the National Park Service argues in favor of permanently eliminating a trail that’s been a local favorite for generations.
Where can you toke on Halloween in Colorado? If you don’t have a friend’s house where you can hang out, the best options are a private, weed-friendly event or a smoking lounge
In September, CU Boulder student Eric Bolling Jr., namesake of former Fox News personality Eric Bolling, became the second celebrity son to die of an overdose in Colorado during a 41-day period. The tragedy underscored the rising number of opioid fatalities in the state. But this week, Bill O’Reilly, a onetime Fox News superstar who some observers believe was the biggest jerk in Denver TV history, put a new spin on the younger Bolling’s death, suggesting that it may have been caused by his father’s departure from Fox News following claims of sexual impropriety.
Two Democratic challengers raised more than $400,000 last quarter, more than incumbent Mike Coffman’s $300,000+ haul. But that’s both good and bad for Dems looking to take down the five-term congressman.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, dubbed the Underwear Bomber after a failed attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airplane on Christmas 2009, was imprisoned at ADX Florence, aka Supermax, in 2012, immediately making him one of the most notorious terrorists housed in Colorado. Now, Abdulmutallab has filed a lawsuit against Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the federal Bureau of Prisons in which he claims that he’s been prevented from properly practicing his Muslim faith, force-fed during hunger strikes staged to protest his treatment and belittled by guards who showed him photos of nude women during prayer time.
A lawsuit filed by a Boulder resident charges that the Colorado Lottery screwed him out of more than $1.6 million in the wake of an intricate scandal that stretches back nearly a dozen years and involves a former security director for the organization that sponsors Powerball.
Rob Trotter didn’t see the same obstacles that most hydroponic-loving cultivators do when he decided to start a commercial cannabis grow on his ranch in Eagle County, a few miles outside of the town of Gypsum. To be blunt, he can’t see much of anything these days: Trotter is 85 percent blind.
Your Denver Broncos knew their October 22 rematch with the Los Angeles Chargers was a must-win game after an embarrassing loss to the New York Giants and the angry tweet-storm that followed. But instead of reasserting their dominance over Philip Rivers and company, they laid their biggest goose egg of a generation. The Broncos’ 21-0 defeat in a nearly empty L.A.-area soccer stadium marked their first shutout since 1992, a span of a quarter-century, and prompted desperate fans on social media to call for current Denver signal-caller Trevor Siemian to be replaced by either the controversial Colin Kaepernick or the sainted but ineffective Tim Tebow, as seen in the Twitter roundup below.
Enlightened Colorado has always been in the forefront of social change in America. At the beginning of 2014, Colorado became the first state to allow adult recreational use of cannabis. While it is easy to understand why miscegenation laws and laws restricting woman’s rights are unconstitutional, the discriminatory effect of cannabis prohibition is just as strong.
Next to the antics of our supreme leader and disgusting film producers, no story has garnered more attention than the kneeling scandal engrossing the NFL.
Law enforcement officials recently released volume five of their ongoing series of reports: “The Legalization of Marijuana in Colorado.” According to NORML’s Paul Armento, they’re just propoganda.
Though many questions remain, we know this: States have engaged in nothing short of an arms race to get the new Amazon headquarters, and Colorado is no exception. But our readers have mixed feelings about the behemoth online retailer possibly coming to Colorado (and Denver), especially after an ApartmentList.com study…
Four other states have opened for recreational cannabis sales since Colorado started the trend in 2014, and three more have passed laws legalizing it. So why does Denver still feel the need to bring in local, state and national regulators from around the world to talk about pot?
Detective Daril Cinquanta’s memoir offers a glimpse of how dramatically the nature of police work, the internal culture of the DPD, and Denver itself have changed in just a single generation.
Initiative 300 would require that buildings in Denver larger than 25,000 square feet install “green roofs,” which incorporate vegetation or solar panels to mitigate climate change and pollution.
Through the first three quarters of 2017, violent crime as a whole in Denver is up, with the most worrisome leap coming in the homicide category. And while a significant number of neighborhoods in the city have registered few violent offenses, five sport totals in excess of 100 combined episodes of murder, robbery and aggravated assault.
Newer, stronger forms of concentrates, more refined edibles brands and innovative infusion techniques are improving at a rate that’s tough for industry insiders to track, much less the average consumer. To help you catch up, we’ve picked out our favorite cannabis products for the season, choosing edibles, drinks, concentrates and accessories that go exceptionally with hoodie weather and pumpkin-patch vibes.
Steffan Tubbs, former host of KOA’s Colorado Morning News, who was let go by the station following his late July arrest on suspicion of domestic violence, disturbance by phone, has revealed that charges against him were dropped yesterday, October 19. He did so in a tweet in which he called himself a domestic violence victim.
Her failure-to-appear means that a warrant has been put out for her, and that Phoenix will face additional charges in Denver if located. We immediately tried to reach her, but found that her personal cell phone number had been disconnected and that her personal Gmail account and Facebook profile had been deleted.
This summer, a production crew from VICE was in the Mile High City filming an episode for their series Weediquette about the relationship between the growth of the cannabis industry and Denver’s affordable housing and homelessness crises.
