No matter how the AFC Championship game between Denver and New England turns out, the Broncos playoff run will turn out well for Justin Staley. Why? Staley’s an owner of Mile High Medical Cannabis, whose location, at 1705 Federal Boulevard, is only steps away from Mile High Stadium. Last week,…
Major streets near Cheesman Park were shut down for hours yesterday, with Denver police enforcing closures from mid-afternoon well into the evening. What happened? A man reportedly fired shots out of his apartment in a building near 10th and Race. When police finally gained entry, however, they found his body:…
Rocky Mountain Organic Medicine is located in the shadow of the Interstate 70 and Highway 6 interchange, and it’s home is one of the most curious buildings in the metro area. I’ve been driving past the thing for at least fifteen years, and always assumed it was a really tiny…
We love it when a Comment of the Day starts a new conversation — and that’s precisely what happened with one reader’s take on pundits critical of Colorado’s legalization of recreational marijuana. Here’s a post by a reader who thinks today’s cannabis can’t truly be compared with the pot a…
Denver blog posts would like a double. The writers for our Cafe Society blog share their list of the top ten dive bars in metro Denver. Talk about tough duty. Denver Urbanism’s Dan Malouff on a possible boom in streetcars. Mile High Report’s Jon Heath shares a video of Peyton…
On January 29, the Colorado Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case to determine who will fill the District 4 seat on the Adams 12 school board. As we reported in an earlier blog post, the question before the high court is whether candidate Amy Speers won the…
As seen by CNN’s decision to assign a reporter (who got high as a kite) to spend a week covering Colorado cannabis, the national media remains fascinated by the state’s launch of recreational pot sales. A case in point is the eruption of attention for the installation of pot amnesty…
In recent years, there have been plenty of complaints about the supposedly intrusive nature of airport searches conducted by Transportation Security Administration personnel. Now, however, Highlands Ranch mom Jamelyn Steenhoek has filed a criminal complaint with Denver police accusing one agent of sexually assaulting her during a search. Details about…
A hat tip to Denver Egotist for alerting us to a clip starring CNN’s Randi Kaye, who appears to have really enjoyed the week she spent covering recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. Especially hilarious: A giggly, occasionally incoherent Kaye looking absolutely shit-hammered during a conversation with host Anderson Cooper thanks…
Last October, we shared a list of Colorado’s twenty most wanted sex offenders. But Denver has its own roster. It’s more than 150 strong, with all of the men and women on it wanted for failing to register after sex-crime convictions. To give you a feel for those at large,…
Around this time last year, we began hearing reports that cars with Colorado license plates were being profiled by law enforcers in other states looking to make marijuana busts. But are similar assumptions being made about Coloradans even after they reach their out-of-state destinations? That’s the claim of one man,…
Update: Two juveniles were taken into custody following the explosion of what’s been described as a “chemical device” at SkyView Academy charter school. At least five people required treatment at an area hospital; see our previous coverage below. Now, authorities are detailing a possible charge against the pair for possessing…
“The Fallen Guru,” Joel Warner, January 9 Om on the Range Thank you for the article about John Friend, and for giving him an opportunity to share his side of the story. There are always two sides to a coin. As a yoga teacher in the Denver area for almost…
Since the start of the new year, we’ve been filling a Colorado bucket list on our four blogs — Show and Tell, Backbeat, Cafe Society and the Latest Word. But now our suggestions are spilling over into print, so that everyone can see the top twenty items on our list…
Dear Stoner: I’m a medical cannabis user and have had my red card for about two years. I noticed that some of these medical dispensaries are opening up for recreational users as well. My question is: How much can they grow for recreational users, and how much of my medicine…
After peaking for 2013 at 112,862 patients in August, the state medical marijuana registry went into a two-month decline, losing more than 2,000 patients by November, when the total was 110,785 registered medical marijuana users. But even if the overall numbers are lower, the amount of money spent by MMJ…
We received a lot of feedback from our post about a driver who crashed into State Patrol vehicles while allegedly under the influence of pot, with much attention paid to a spokesman’s concerns about people new to pot taking the wheel. Among the comments is this one, from a reader…
Denver blog posts can go all night long. At our Backbeat blog, Leslie Simon wonders why there’s such a stigma against jam bands? South Stands Denver’s Colin Daniels declares the AFC Championship game forecast to be awesome. Colorado Pols on “UdallGate” — which isn’t something he uses to get into…
Last week, we told you about local strip club employees banding together to fight sex trafficking in anticipation of a spike in forced prostitution related to the Broncos-Chargers game on January 12. Their plan was to hand out trading cards made especially for the playoff game, stamped with the message…
Richard Dolin insisted that his baby daughter — five-month-old Marlayna, seen here — received many if not most of the injuries that eventually took her life from rolling off a couch onto a concrete floor. But prosecutors didn’t buy this explanation, pointing to shocking injuries completely inconsistent with this explanation…
Last month, CU professor Patti Adler was called on the carpet over a prostitution skit that’s long been part of a class entitled “Deviance in U.S. Society,” with Adler supporters blasting the university for what they saw as attacks on academic freedom and Adler personally. In the end, the administration…
Back in October, the Denver Post laid off several people, but quite a few others are leaving voluntarily, with the sports department, a key to the paper’s pageview prowess, being especially hard hit. Three Broncos reporters have left in a span of just over a year, including Joan Niesen, who…
