Blackberry Kush has been largely overshadowed by the Blueberries and Grape Apes of the strain world, but it’s achieved a moderate shine in Denver, where I’ve found at least a dozen pot shops carrying it over the past year.
Westword.com is on a scroll, with an articles page redesign that introduces several innovations, including uninterrupted scrolling.
Jury selection for the Taylor Swift-DJ David Mueller trial is continuing in Denver at this writing, with national and international media operations closely monitoring developments in a story that involves dueling accounts about alleged bottom-touching prior to a June 2013 Pepsi Center concert. But this activity seems positively sluggish in comparison to the explosion of activity on Twitter, where Swift supporters are rallying under the hashtag #StayStrongTaylor.
After suffering three grand mal seizures in a nine-hour period, Justin Stieb was placed in an observation cell, where he was supposed to be closely monitored by camera. But was he?
Stan Kroenke, the polarizing billionaire owner of the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche, is in the crosshairs of controversy for launching a streaming service that shows big-game hunting to subscribers in the United Kingdom.
Less than a month after William Scott Planer was arrested in Colorado Springs for putting an anti-Semitic sticker on the door of Chabad Lubavitch Jewish Center, a second synagogue in the city has been the target of hateful vandalism via Nazi graffiti at Temple Beit Torah. And while there’s no evidence of direct linkage between the crimes, Jeremy Shaver, associate regional director for the Anti-Defamation League, says such incidents appear to be escalating in the Springs and beyond.
Most Colorado locals know the unwritten rules of smoking while on a hike, but some tourists and transplants might have a little bit to learn. Here’s some tips on how to get the most from a pot-infused hike.
On Sunday, August 6, a thus-far-unidentified 35-year-old Front Range man died while climbing the Knife’s Edge portion of Capitol Peak, in the Elk Mountains near Aspen. He’s the second person to perish scaling Capitol Peak in less than a month, following Parker’s Jake Lord, who suffered a fatal fall there on July 15. And according to Lloyd Athearn, executive director of the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, data compiled by the organization shows that Capitol Peak and several other Elk Mountains fourteeners are among the riskiest in Colorado.
How old do you have to be to buy CBD products? What if they’re made from hemp? Our Stoner has the info.
As pro-pot as the rest of the country makes Colorado out to be, it’s still hard for folks to get together, chat and enrich themselves over cannabis outside of a private home. Then, the Mile High Showcase come to town.
Since pairing CBD and coffee is all the rage the days, trying GO Beans, 1906’s interesting take on the fad, seemed like a fun morning mission. But it proved more of a learning experience.
Mayor Hancock and Denver City Council are considering different approaches to limiting Denver’s cooperation with ICE, but some immigrant advocates like attorney Hans Meyer believe that neither goes far enough.
The author of American Eclipse says watching a total solar eclipse is “the closest thing to space travel.”
Nahid Moshrefi, also known as Dr. Venus K. Moshrefi, describes herself as a specialist in natural healing therapies. But she’s characterized by prosecutors with the First Judicial District DA’s office as a fraud who faked cancer in order to bilk an elderly man out of $69,000, and a jury agreed.
It may not be good for his business, but Joshua Hunt, the co-founder and CEO of the local real estate brokerage TRELORA, says that for a significant number of people in Denver, including many of those who’ve just moved to the Mile High City, renting makes more sense than buying.
Today, jury selection begins in the court battle between former Denver DJ David Mueller and pop star Taylor Swift; he claims she got him fired by falsely accusing him of groping her prior to a June 2013 concert at the Pepsi Center, while she maintains that Muller “reached up under my skirt and grabbed my ass right when I was having to pose for a photo” that was subsequently made public against the wishes of all parties involved. The controversy has resulted in the biggest celebrity trial in Denver since 1994, when King of Pop Michael Jackson was hauled into court after being accused of plagiarism by Crystal Cartier, a local singer-songwriter.
While the Trump administration has a new proposal that would crack down on legal immigration, a Denver City Council committee approved a proposal that would give undocumented residents more protection from ICE. Meanwhile, Mayor Michael Hancock is drafting his own executive order regarding immigration. Our readers weigh in.
While Jeff Sessions is writing states that have legalized marijuana, he’s hearing from Coloradans, too, who want to make sure medical marijuana stays legal in this state.
Michael Roberts and his wife got stuck in a traffic jam on Interstate 70 last weekend caused by a horrific accident that ultimately killed two people and injured six. He wrote about his experience — and readers had plenty of opinions about his story.
A teenager who suffered a concussion in a sports injury finally found relief through cannabis. Now her mother asks Attorney General Jeff Sessions to stay away from meddling with marijuana.
His obituary describes Kabelman’s death as “a tragic accident,” but Lakewood police detectives have declined to declare it an accident or a suicide.
In a little over a month, three quarters of a million people like Denver’s LaLo Montoya, an undocumented resident, may be thrown back into the shadows if the Trump administration aggressively expands deportations.
