Celebrities getting into Colorado’s legal cannabis game is nothing new, with Snoop Dogg, Willie Nelson, Wiz Khalifa and Tommy Chong all slapping their names on some form of pot product. Now, you can add Whoopi Goldberg to that list.
In the wake of a scandal involving movie executive Harvey Weinstein, who is accused of engaging in improper sexual behavior with more than sixty women, Jamie Naughright has granted her first TV interview in regard to previously reported allegations that former Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning “placed his ‘naked butt and rectum'” on her face when he was a student at the University of Tennessee.
Deb Sheppard, one of the Denver area’s best-known mediums, says there are plenty of metro-area places with a high degree of spiritual activity accessible to visitors around Halloween, or any other time of the year. Moreover, she sees no reason to be afraid of such haunting locations.
Not only does Frankenberry ramp the ghoulish effects up a notch as you puff a joint and watch Michael Myers get back up for the tenth time, but it also takes you back to mornings before school, eating a bowl of the strawberry-marshmallow cereal — and so does the strain’s cakey, berry flavor.
During and after the October 30 Monday Night Football match-up between your Denver Broncos and the Kansas City Chiefs, which ended with a 29-19 KC victory, fans of the Mile High City squad vented on Twitter, with many of them directing their anger at first-year coach Vance Joseph. As you’ll see in our roundup of the most memorable tweets, the hashtag #FireVance has become a thing.
As predicted in our previous coverage, on view below, the Denver City Council approved a smoking and vaping ban on the 16th Street Malls at its October 30 meeting. The vote wasn’t exactly a squeaker, with members favoring the measure by a 9-0 margin thanks largely to an amendment offered by Councilman Paul Kashmann that followed the outlines of policies shared with us by his colleague, Albus Brooks, who sponsored the original bill.
The numbers of courthouse arrests were far higher than anyone – city officials included – realized: 31 courthouse arrests in Denver between October 2016 and early May 2017.
One of Colorado’s largest hash manufacturers has added another product to its lineup. O.penVape, known for its pre-filled vaporizers cartridges, has rolled out the ISH pens, a new line of distillate products geared toward novice cannabis consumers.
As we’ve reported, rents in Denver are finally coming down after a long period of sky-high costs that added immeasurably to the difficulty of making a living in Denver despite the booming economy. But the prices aren’t exactly a bargain for pet owners. Even the complexes with the best deals for lovers of dogs, cats and other critters typically require hefty, non-refundable deposits that range up to $500 and significant monthly fees.
The headline of a post published in this space last year posed the question, “Is Pueblo the Drug Bust Capital of Colorado?” And in recent months, law enforcement in the community has answered this question with a resounding “yes,” particularly when it comes to marijuana crimes with an international flavor. In a series of raids over the past four months, the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office, working in conjunction with other agencies, has seized more than 8,000 cannabis plants at allegedly illegal grows associated with foreign nationals. Among those arrested as part of the operations were eight men from Mexico and four from Cuba.
The best cannabis events in metro Denver for the last week of October 2017, as well as more in November.
The climber who fell to his death from Boulder’s First Flatiron on October 26 has been identified. He was Erik Kleiber, a 31 year old from Boulder. He’s the second person to suffer a fatal fall at that location in less than three months.
President Donald Trump has a plan to stop the opioid epidemic, and (surprise!) it doesn’t involve cannabis, which could be a far safer alternative for dealing with pain.
Vice President Mike Pence might have been the guest of the Colorado GOP, but protesters outside the fundraiser in Denver he was scheduled to visit on October 26 made it clear he wasn’t welcomed.
Denver City Council President Albus Brooks says he’s used to racist emails from constituents. But how he’s dealing with them will change.
We know the many benefits cannabis has in regards to physical health, but could it have the same effect on anxiety?
Our guide to the ballot measures Denver voters will see in November 2017, including I-300 and 2A through 2G.
One of the country’s most well-known think tanks is calling out United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his repressive attitude towards cannabis, particularly medical marijuana. The Brookings Institution released an op-ed Wednesday, October 25, criticizing his “biases on the issue, a division of opinion between him and the president he serves, and a federal government effort to stand in the way of the free conduct of research” in regards to growing medical marijuana for research purposes.
Denver usually sees the highest demand for shelter space November through April. As we start to experience the first snow storms of the season, Westword checked in with the city to find out what shelter options are available during winter 2017-2018, and how those options may have changed from last season.
A year ago, Dan Baer didn’t think he’d ever run for office. But now, he is in a predicament: what to do next after his campaign, which started with a fundraising bang, came to an abrupt end.
Medical and recreational cannabis flower and concentrates from Little Brown House and its sister dispensary, Reefer Madness, are being voluntarily recalled after Denver Department of Environmental Health investigations determined that the products carried potentially unsafe levels of banned pesticides. DEH investigators found evidence of residual levels of myclobutanil, a chemical…
In August, our Alan Prendergast wrote, “It’s not easy to prove that Mayor Michael Hancock and his minions are violating the Denver City Charter in their pursuit of a $300 million stormwater diversion project” that would involve closing City Park Golf Course for two year and bulldozing hundreds of trees. And he was right. Denver District Court Judge David Goldberg has ruled against the plaintiffs in a 2016 lawsuit that tied the project to Interstate 70 expansion, which opponents deride via the phrase “Ditch the ditch.”
