Forget California dreamin’. These days Mason Tvert, the media-savvy founder of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation), has been dreaming of Washington State — where the good city of Seattle just rolled out a citywide marijuana measure that Tvert’s been pushing Denver to implement for years. In a letter recently…
Remember that scene in Fantasia where Mickey Mouse, as the sorcerer’s apprentice, is besieged by a never-ending army of brooms inundating him with pail upon pail of water? That’s sort of like what’s happening these days at the vital statistics department of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment…
With medical marijuana taking the state by storm, it was inevitable that Christianity would be added to the mix. That time will apparently come later today: At a state capitol rally, Reverend James Marks of the THC Ministry church in Boulder is expected to make news by bestowing a pot-themed…
Last week’s cover story on LEGO Universe, an ambitious online LEGO video game being developed by Louisville company NetDevil uncovered lots of intriguing tidbits about everybody’s favorite plastic building blocks — like how serious builders use obscure terms like SNOT (studs not on top) to describe their bricks, and how…
“For the first time in years, people in Denver are abusing marijuana more than any other drug,” trumpeted a January 8 Channel 9 investigative story on citywide drug stats. That’s quite the announcement. Too bad the story itself is filled with more useless junk than a baggie of ditch weed…
As we noted in this week’s cover story, Louisville game developer NetDevil is hoping to hit the big time with a family-friendly version of World of Warcraft thanks to its upcoming game, LEGO Universe. Most of the game’s development has been hush-hush, though the company released the first official game…
Denver’s residential composting collection pilot program, launched with a grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment and donations from Rehrig Pacific and A1 Organics, got off to a promising start, with 3,300 Denver homes having their food scraps and other organic waste regularly collected by the city…
Spencer and Braxton Jones have to get off this doomed spaceship. It’s teetering on the brink of a black hole, and they’re inching toward oblivion. The only way out is via the ship’s escape rockets, but there’s a catch: The rockets’ components are scattered all about the spaceship, in the…
The idea was so delightful we had to give it a shot: For this week’s cover story, which details how local video game developer NetDevil is creating a LEGO version of World of Warcraft with the game LEGO Universe, why not transform Westword’s signature cover logo into a giant LEGO…
Forget the Mile High City. Denver’s has a new name, according to media reports: “Cannabis Capital USA.” The title comes courtesy of the fact that the city’s been inundated with sales tax license applications for dispensaries as entrepreneurs try to get in under the wire before Denver institutes new industry-wide…
View Larger Map The hard-boiled tale seems straight out of a gripping detective novel: Last night, just a few hours after Denver City Council discussed new regulations for the city’s flourishing dispensary industry, a man was shot dead from what the cops are saying was a medical-marijuana transaction gone awry…
It’ll be a happy new year for dispensary owners since Arapahoe County District Court Judge Christopher Cross ruled today that the city of Centennial has to back off from its recent dispensary ban. The decision came as part of a lawsuit filled on behalf of CannaMart, a Centennial dispensary that…
I was talking last night with a friend in public relations who told me that many PR firms around town are still reluctant to work with medical-marijuana clients. If that’s the case, it’s a shame — since Colorado’s dispensary scene is a marketer’s dream. There are already lawyers, realtors and…
The planned rehabilitation of Denver Union Station is incredibly ambitious – and we’re not just talking about cobbling together enough funding to afford its $500 million price tag. The plan involves coordinating commuter rail, light rail, a bus terminal, historic structures and new public spaces in an area stretched out…
It ain’t easy being a shmuck. Not as mean as an asshole, not as ignorant as a shithead, a shmuck takes idiocy to an epic level, a moron whose fall from grace has far-reaching repercussions. We’ve been celebrating weekly shmucks for a long, long time — but to be named…
DenverInfill Blog, authored by local urban planner Ken Schroeppel, is a true Denver success story. The nearly six-year-old operation isn’t the flashiest blog around, but it does one thing incredibly well, and that’s cover Denver development. All of us old-fashioned journos trying to cover planning and development long ago ceded…
One of the biggest stumbling blocks with the local medical marijuana industry is the lack of quality control. Other than taking a dispensary worker’s word for it, it’s impossible to know just how powerful is that sample of OG Kush is — or, for that matter, if it really is…
If Colorado dispensaries seem a little empty tomorrow, that’s because anyone who’s anyone in the business will likely be at the University of Denver, where Sensible Colorado, a drug-reform advocacy group, will be holding a stakeholder’s meeting from 1 to 4 p.m. at DU’s Student Forum, 2255 East Evans Avenue,…
As the final pieces of the funding puzzle behind the $500 million rehab of Union Station fall into place, the project is finally poised to begin. But lately, what, exactly, the final development will look like has been shifting considerably, and not all observers are happy about the changes. Yesterday,…
There have been nine bank robberies in the Denver area this week, three each on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. With developments like this, it may seem like Colorado is getting overrun by stick-up artists — and, in actuality, that’s more or less the case. According to FBI Community Outreach Specialist…
It’s starting to feel like the Wild West around here, with banks getting stuck up left and right. Monday, two banks got hit, with a third knocked over yesterday. The FBI believes the perpetrators of this last job, who’ve they’ve named the “Hopping Hooded Bandits” because of their attire and…
Forget smartphones and robotic hamsters: The real hot gifts this holiday season are medical marijuana gizmos. There are a bunch of cutting-edge weed products being developed right here in Colorado. Check out a few of our favorites below. Think of it like a holiday gift guide for that special medical-marijuana…
