Efforts to establish post-traumatic stress disorder as a condition treatable by medical marijuana fell short in the Colorado legislature last month. That was fine by the state’s health department, which circulated a fact sheet among legislators prior to vote on a PTSD amendment arguing that there’s no medical evidence MMJ…
Yesterday afternoon, the item atop the Fort Collins Coloradoan’s breaking-news roster was an announcement that a photo-radar vehicle had been spotted “on LaPorte Avenue just east of Meldrum St. The van is targeting eastbound drivers.” Unusual? Not at the Coloradoan, which has posted updates about photo-radar vans and their locations…
The latest TV commercial featuring Carmelo Anthony is flat-out bizarre, and not only because it represents his head as a sun rising above the horizon — iconography that blends Teletubbies with the Unification Church. As you’ll see in the clip above, the tribute to His Basketball Eminence is delivered by…
Westword marijuana critic William Breathes is filing dispatches from the 4/20 celebration at Civic Center Park. Read from the bottom up to follow them in chronological order. 4:56 p.m.: Found my ride… Fun rally. As is always the case with the 4/20 rally, the actual event of smoking pot in…
Now that South Park bad boys Trey Parker and Matt Stone have announced plans for a Broadway production titled The Book of Mormon, congregants of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are bracing themselves for some savage jokes about polygamous prophets, complicated underwear, annoying missionaries and an angel…
If there’s one thing Denver’s marijuana movement has embraced, it’s a wanton disregard for federal laws. And no day illustrates this sentiment more than 4/20, when marijuana patients and exuberant scofflaws alike ascend on the Capitol to protest pot prohibition — and to offer reefer-eshing variations on commercial branding. Page…
Yes, I, too, was excited by the Nuggets’ victory in game one of their playoff series against the Utah Jazz on Saturday. But even in a thirteen-point win, there were danger signs about a lack of defense — which wound up costing them game two. A blown call late was…
Update, 3 p.m.: Channel 31 has posted video of the suspect. Check it out below the original item, which was published at 11:37 a.m. Last week may have marked the first-ever iPad theft in the state of Colorado! Hooray! Of course, the person whose new gadget was snatched from the…
As the number of people applying for Colorado medical marijuana licenses has multiplied, so has the amount of time required for the state to process all that paperwork. What started as a month delay stretched to three, then four months last fall. Now it’s seven or eight months — way…
We’ve been panning for Denver blogging gold. Here’s three posts we sifted out. In a fan post on Mile High Report, Joe Medina calls April 19 “a day that will live in infamy” — because Tony Scheffler’s departure means the Broncos’ Mike Shanahan era is officially over. That thrills Medina;…
As noted in our blog about the eleventh anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School, Oprah Winfrey shot a program about that subject a year ago, but wound up pulling it at the last minute following complaints from family members and other concerned parties. Don’t expect something similar to…
Former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo has been making the Tea Party circuit of late, with his remarks about topics like civics literacy tests prompting conservative heavyweight Dick Armey to call him bad for the movement. But that hasn’t shut him up. The latest kerfuffle: At a South Carolina Tea Party…
The 4/20 event taking place at the University of Colorado at Boulder at 4:20 p.m. has been aptly described as “an orgasm of cannabis consumption.” But even as the smoke from that bash is inspiring a lot more flights than have taken off in Europe over the past week, a…
#19 of the 22 Major Arcana: Jane Norton, the Moon…..
Mark Udall seems an unlikely target for Tom Mauser’s campaign to close the gun-show loophole — the subject of full-page ads in the Denver Post and Boulder Daily Camera aimed squarely at the Colorado senator. After all, Udall’s derided the loophole for at least a decade. Take this statement from…
During the recent debate about a nudity ordinance in Boulder — one enlivened by the controversy over topless gardener Catharine Pierce — Judd Golden, spokesman for the Boulder ACLU, frequently urged city council members to wait to find out what kind of public nudity bill would emerge from the Colorado…
Last year marked the tenth anniversary of the shootings at Columbine High School — the sort of round number the media can’t resist. As such, there were a number of notable commemorations, including the release of two books on the tragedy and a special episode of Oprah that was yanked…
The International Cannabis Day festivities that kick off at 9 a.m. this morning at Civic Center Park have a major political component, as stressed in a recent interview with NORML executive director Allen St. Pierre, who’ll deliver the event’s “invocation.” As such, the Cannabis Therapy Institute is hoping to capitalize…
The somber e-mail was sent out a couple of weeks ago. After six years of two-wheeled rumpuses every warm Wednesday night, after numerous beer-soaked bicycle shenanigans, countless inappropriate costumes and endless rides around the Circle of Death (a.k.a. the concrete circle in Civic Center Park), the beloved Denver Cruisers rides…
When Broncos tight end Tony Scheffler signed his tender offer, it was clear he’d be leaving, just as it was when Brandon Marshall did likewise. But who’da thunk a player this promising would bring in so little? As reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter, today’s Scheffler trade was part of a…
We bring you three blogs about Denver things. Click on them for proof. At 5280, Michael de Yoanna describes Bill Ritter’s first major bicycle ride since his rib-fracturing accident in March as “no sweat.” And no trip to the emergency room, either. According to Colorado Pols, Senator Michael Bennet has…
In the Internet age, one of the surest signs that an idea’s popular is if the website affiliated with it crashes. Which is basically what happened shortly after the launch of RechargeColorado.com. The program, funded by the feds, offers up to $500 in rebates to folks buying appliances designed to…
