Most hot hemp crops occur when farmers are working with a new seed, according to the Colorado Department Agriculture, but other factors can cause a THC spike in hemp plants, such as the growing environment and overly long flowering periods.
The Three a Light app is based on the book of the same name that aims to teach regular people how to increase their yields from their cannabis plants.
The Hancock administration decided in January to fold the office of HOPE under the Office of Economic Development. That came along with a job posting for a new “Chief Housing Officer” that will oversee HOPE, a $20 million budget and up to twenty employees dedicated to housing issues. The job posting closed yesterday, February 12, the same day HOPE head Erik Soliván resigned.
Colorado has seen sustained growth in cannabis sales revenue since introducing retail sales, increasing over 120 percent from 2014 to 2017.
Republicans on the powerful joint-budget committee voted on Thursday to withhold funding from the Colorado Civil Rights Division, which is charged with investigating and enforcing anti-discrimination cases across the state. With the agency facing a sunset review this year, Republicans are keen on holding agency funding hostage to restructure the agency. This comes right in the midst of a U.S. Supreme Court lawsuit between a same-sex couple and a Colorado baker who refused to make their wedding cake.
One of Denver’s poorest neighborhoods is about to undergo a renaissance that could see it become a cultural and entertainment hub in the heart of the city over the next decade.
Since November, several sexual harassment claims have surfaced against sitting members of the Colorado General Assembly on both sides of the political aisle. This time, Denver House Democrat Susan Lontine has publicly accused Senate colleague Larry Crowder of pinching her butt and making inappropriate comments.
Last night, Arielle Gold, who we introduced you to in our post about Colorado women taking part in the 2018 Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang, South Korea, earned a bronze medal in snowboarding, sharing the podium with gold medalist/instant superstar Chloe Kim. She’s the second Coloradan to medal in the games thus far, following Red Gerard, highlighted in our Colorado men at the 2018 Winter Olympics roundup, who took the gold in snowboard slopestyle. At this writing, if Colorado was a country, it would have won more medals than 81 of 93 countries, territories or entities taking part in the competition.
The NCIA Seed to Sale Show, held in Denver for the last two years, will move to Boston in 2019, according to an announcement from the NCIA.
As our Patricia Calhoun has reported, the search for new voices to announce stops on the Denver International Airport trains has turned into a highly unusual and kinda awkward contest in which travelers and other interested parties can vote for their favorites among five women and five men in local media. But last night, one prominent personality not on the finals list made himself heard loud and clear. During his regular afternoon-drive show on 104.3 The Fan, Darren “D-Mac” McKee, a recent Westword profile subject, went off on a hilarious rant about his exclusion and the continued participation of Fox31 anchor Jeremy Hubbard, whose voice, he believes, isn’t nearly as memorable as his hair.
Some readers claim that a little herb goes a long way in lowering their sexual inhibitions, increasing euphoria and prolonging their perception of time.
Around noon on November 20, 2017, mere hours after Denver Environmental Health announced a ban on the sale of kratom for human consumption in the city, DEH representatives stormed into the 5800 East Colfax Avenue branch of Myxed Up Creations, which had been selling the popular herbal pain reliever, and ordered stock valued in the thousands of dollars to be destroyed on the spot. Michael Gross, the shop’s attorney, who likened the action to “a commando raid,” managed to prevent the supply from being trashed, and now the agency’s own board is allowing the kratom in question to be transferred to Myxed Up’s sister stores outside the city limits after criticizing the way the matter was handled. But as many as fourteen other businesses in Denver weren’t so lucky.
On February 12, Denver International Airport announced the top ten finalists in the contest to become the new announcers for “Train Call.” You can vote for your favorites until February 25.
After years of working with and for the Democratic Party, Saira Rao has had enough with the party establishment, and she’s taking on Colorado’s longest-serving congresswoman to combat civil rights and progressive issues.
The changes would require that developers that want to build above a certain height in the area pay five times the city’s affordable housing fee per square footage, build a certain number of affordable housing units if it’s a residential building, or implement in any commercial development services that go toward the community, like daycare or space for artists.
Counting the New Year’s Eve gun battle that killed Douglas County Deputy Zackari Parrish, there have been fourteen officer-involved shootings along Colorado’s Front Range over a span of 42 days. This total includes a traffic stop on Saturday, February 10 in Aurora during which an adult male was killed by a member or members of the Aurora Police Department — the fifth OIS in less than a week. During these incidents, eight suspects and three officers have been killed and at least eleven injuries took place involving law enforcers and others.
At this writing, thirty states and the District of Columbia have legalized some form of marijuana, be it recreational, medical or both, with Colorado having been in the latter category for more than four years. Nonetheless, Facebook and Instagram continue to make it difficult for cannabis businesses to advertise and promote themselves on the platforms. The scenario causes frustration within the industry even as it forces marketers to come up with clever ways to get around restrictions.
We recently caught up with Ricardo Baca to talk about his transition from reporter to potrepreneur.
Just over two years after Jason “Jay” Taylor died during a skiing accident at Keystone, his mother, Lynda Weston Taylor, continues to raise awareness about ski area safety. But she’s also speaking out about an issue that compounded the grief she felt after Jay’s passing. Neither his organs nor his tissues were harvested after he died even though he’d formally designated himself an organ donor on his driver’s license.
On Friday, February 9, United States Olympic Committee Chairman Larry Probst ruled out the possibility of bringing the Winter Olympics to Denver, or any other American city, in 2026.
The Colorado Department of Transportation has partnered with the marijuana industry, community nonprofits, universities and other entities on a new approach to educating the public about stoned driving.
Last week, state lawmakers withdrew a bill in the General Assembly that would have created a pilot project for a “supervised injection site” in Denver for intravenous drug users. The project would have mirrored a safe-injection site in Vancouver, one of the few in North America.
