In December, the University of Colorado launched a new $100,000 branding campaign, entitled “Be Boulder,” in hopes of turning people’s attention away from Boulder’s rep as a party school and towards the noble laureates and astronauts and filmmakers the institution has produced. But facts are facts, and even if the…
Unless you’re a fan of Major League Soccer, you may not have heard of Robbie Rogers, but the speedy winger made big news last February when he came out, and briefly retired, before returning to soccer and being traded to the LA Galaxy; in doing so, he became the first…
In light of the city’s unexpected crackdown on the Cannabition smokeout, organizers of yesterday’s cancelled event, along with vaporizer company O.pen VAPE, funneled their resources into the launch of My 420 Tours, which basically consisted of loading reporters and smokers onto a party bus, handing out free, loaded vaporizers and…
Editor’s note: We’re counting down the most popular Latest Word posts of 2013. This one came in at No. 2. Read it as originally published. October 22, 2013: Over the years, we’ve had a lot of fun collecting “You know you’re from Colorado when” punchlines. But then we wondered: What…
I had never seen so many people so happy to stand in line for two and a half hours. When I arrived at the Northern Lights Cannabis Company, just across from Sloan’s Lake in Edgewater, around 2:45 p.m. on New Year’s Day, I found about 100 people there ahead of…
Despite the snow, the holiday and the long lines, 3D Cannabis Center was abuzz with excitement yesterday morning with the start of recreational marijuana sales. Attempting to navigate both the media’s hungry demand for more information on this historic event and the public’s hungry demand for their first purchase of…
“Gone to Pot,” Patricia Calhoun, december 26 Pot Luck I have been concerned that Colorado officials make this state look very humorless in their approach to implementing Amendment 64. No matter what else happens, we’ll show the world a real Rocky Mountain high.Joe ConnerDenver If you were the only pot-friendly…
On January 1, 2014, Colorado will become the first state to sell recreational marijuana. As revealed in the following profiles of three local ganjapreneurs, pot is big business — and the (green) rush is on. •••••••••••• Kayvan Khalatbari, Pot Pioneer I’ve always been drawn to creative people who are a…
For this week’s Ask a Stoner, our ganja guru took a look at the questions and answers on the City of Denver’s official retail marijuana page. While most of the site’s advice is solid and straightforward, some of it needed tweaking by an actual cannabis user. It is illegal to…
As lines began wrapping entire blocks in Denver, we headed up to Central City and Annie’s — a shop that has the distinction of receiving the first local licensing approval for recreational retail sales six weeks ago, well before the state got around to licensing anyone. There wasn’t a line…
Westword has a team of writers and photographers around Colorado today covering the start of legalized cannabis sales to adults 21 and up. Though the rest of the Westword blogs are sleeping today, we’ll be updating The Latest Word through the day with dispatches from the field. Read on for…
Editor’s note: We’re counting down the most popular Latest Word posts of 2013. This one came in at No. 3. Read it as originally published. November 21, 2013: In February, we listed the ten scariest out-of-state license plates to see in a snowstorm. But just because a car has green-and-white…
Cannabition’s public pot-smoking party at NORAD may be dead in the water, but the event’s organizers will still be celebrating the beginning of retail marijuana sales tomorrow with a bus tour of Denver pot highlights, including a behind-the-scenes peek at a retail dispensary and a grow site. Now, we’re giving…
Denver International Airport banned marijuana possession on airport property this week in a move that officials say will help prevent legal pot from flying illegally out of state. That includes the parking lots. So if lighting up a huge bowl of kush in the West Garage before getting on a…
Vail.Along with Colorado’s new marijuana laws legalizing limited amounts of herb for adults 21 and up came liberalization in the conversation around the state. People aren’t afraid to talk about marijuana in public anymore, largely because it’s not illegal to do so. In fact, it’s not uncommon now to hear…
Tomorrow at 1 p.m., the public will have an opportunity to remember seventeen-year-old Claire Davis, who was fatally wounded in the December 13 Arapahoe High School shooting, at a memorial service at the National Western Events Center. Tickets to the Celebration of the Life of Claire Davis are free and…
They’ve targeted Snooze and the Palm, and now an Occupy Denver-supported coalition of protestors is going after the Tattered Cover Book Store because of the store’s position on Denver’s controversial ban on urban camping — or, rather, because of the Tattered Cover’s lack of a position on the subject. Last…
The Colorado Court of Appeals has rejected efforts by a group of park lovers to stop construction of a new school on eleven acres of open space in the Cherry Creek corridor — land that the city designated as a natural area six years ago but that the Hancock administration…
Editor’s note: We’re counting down the most popular Latest Word posts of 2013. This one came in at No. 4. Read it as originally published. April 11, 2013: Last week, Denver Manager of Safety Alex Martinez announced that there would be no charges against the three Denver police officers who…
Cannabition, a January 1 blowout, has been canceled thanks to a not-so-vague memo the promoters received from the City of Denver on Friday afternoon, warning that not only business owners could be punished if the bash were held, but any person in attendance caught lighting up could (and probably would)…
Since the 2009 “green rush” boom of medical dispensaries, Denver pot smokers have enjoyed a steady decline in the price of their cannabis in both the medical and black-market economies, dropping from $50 or $60 an eighth to as low as $25. With the heavily regulated industry of legal recreational…
The Denver Department of Excise and Licenses recently posted a list of fourteen stores in town that are now fully licensed to sell recreational marijuana on January 1. It’s a story that has been dominating the news in Westword and in other media outlets around town and around the country,…
