The most prominent anti-marijuana group in the country is touting the absence of language in a key Congressional funding bill that has protected the medical marijuana industry in Colorado and beyond from federal prosecution in recent years. But a cannabis advocate dismisses the suggestion that this development could soon unleash a law-enforcement blitzkrieg against the MMJ biz.
This week, Boulder police found approximately 31 pounds of marijuana in an open space area, not far from where three people were camping in violation of local ordinances. But none of them were hit with charges related to the pot, because officers couldn’t figure out to whom it belonged.
Seth Kienzle disappeared in Boulder on February 19, 2016, just over a month after Ryder Johnson vanished elsewhere in the county. More than a year later, both remain missing. Now, one of Kienzle’s longtime friends, who’s frustrated by the decision of law enforcement to stop searching for him based on a theory she doubts, is sharing his story in the hope of finally solving a mystery that grows deeper and more heartbreaking with each passing day.
The Green Solution has become one of the largest cannabis retailers in the country, with twelve dispensaries open now and three more expected to debut this summer. And its location in Silver Plume, a town with a population of less than 200 people, is about to become the first of its kind: It will become a marijuana outlet store, something previously unseen in Colorado’s cannabis industry.
June 27 will go down as one of the deadlier days at Colorado water attractions in state history. On that day, three men drowned at different locations within hours of each other, including two rafting deaths and an incident involving a man who fell off a paddle board into an ice cold lake.
A reader asks our Stoner if it’s okay to tip an Uber driver with weed.
Four neighborhood business groups on Colfax Avenue are requesting $20 million in bond funding for new pedestrian medians, trees, crosswalks and other measures intended to make Colfax safer and more accessible.
When immigration lawyers with the Meyer Law Firm first captured video evidence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducting arrests inside the hallways of the Lindsey Flanigan Courthouse in February, it caused panic in Denver’s immigrant communities. Within weeks of the video’s release, Denver City Attorney Kristin Bronson announced that at least…
Hugh Jackman is reportedly set to play former Colorado Senator Gary Hart in The Frontrunner, a new film by writer-director Jason Reitman. The movie will examine Hart’s 1988 run for the presidency, which imploded after the publication of a photo showing the senator and a model named Donna Rice posing in a friendly manner in front of a boat named the Monkey Business.
Denver’s economy is booming, yet blue-collar and service workers who rent in the Mile High City’s metro area have less money after paying for housing today than they did ten years ago, according to a new study. And the woman who oversaw the report says there’s no indication that the situation will improve anytime soon.
Apparently Lucinda Williams was a big deal long before I bought an eighth with her name on it. Lucinda Williams the strain is bred from Cinderella 99 and William’s Wonder, an Afghani phenotype named after Willie Nelson. Despite not yet having a strong reputation outside of Colorado, it has become one of the more steady, attainable strains in Denver.
The death yesterday, June 27, of an as-yet-unidentified man during a commercial rafting trip was the second to take place on the Poudre River over a nine-day span. Moreover, the part of the river near where the man died took two lives in 2014 during another especially dangerous period for the Poudre.
The MED’s summer stakeholder groups will provide suggestions and input for the agency’s 2017 rulemaking session as it deliberates changes to industry regulations and legislation implementation. Anyone is allowed to apply.
The event provided dozens of services — including medical and mental-health check-ups, clothing, food and help with finding affordable housing — free of charge.
As the climber pulled himself onto a rock shelf nearly 250 feet above the base of Eldorado Canyon, he would have looked as small as a speck to anyone below looking skyward at the imposing Bastille, a 350-foot natural formation named after the famed medieval French fortress. The climber, a…
On Wednesday, June 21, Cristina Rodriguez became the latest instance of someone in Colorado who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents while reporting to a scheduled ICE check-in. According to ICE spokesman Carl Rusnok, Rodriguez was deported to Mexico on Friday, June 23; her family and immigrant-rights advocates…
Roman Morales originally claimed to have been insane when he fatally strangled two-year-old cousin Donnie Ro’Mello Romero Jr. at a Lakewood apartment in September 2015. But the jury hearing the case ultimately found Morales guilty of first-degree murder under the theory that his bizarre behavior, including claims that he’d somehow been ordered to kill the child, was actually a symptom of psychosis spurred by meth use.
Denver dispensaries have been able to stay open until 10 p.m. since May, but how many are taking advantage? We list every pot shop in the city of Denver that has extended its hours.
Jamie White is marking her fifth year back on Alice 105.9, the station where she first became one of Denver’s biggest radio stars during the 1990s and early 2000s. But despite all the words she’s spoken, and all the eyebrows she’s raised, during her separate Mile High City stints, she’s seldom gotten the chance to share the complete story of her unusual three-decade broadcasting career. And in the following interview, she tells the tale in her trademark no-holds-barred fashion.
New Mexico author Forrest Fenn considered ending the search for a hidden treasure after the death this month of Grand Junction pastor Paris Wallace, the second Coloradan to perish looking for it over the past eighteen months. But he has now concluded that the hunt should go on in part because of a life he says was saved by the quest.
A reader wants to know why his cottonmouth lasts so long after smoking. Our Stoner breaks down why.
Metropolitan State University has been on a building binge. Metro has recently added a Student Academic Success Center, a Marriott Springhill Suites location with an academic hospitality school, and a massive sports complex for both collegiate teams and student exercise on the Auraria campus. On Thursday, June 22, Metro celebrated the completion and opening of its latest project, the Aerospace and Engineering Sciences Building.
