Coloradans are facing tons of choices this political season all the way from the governor’s mansion to city council. Although politicians are soaking up the spotlight this year, several significant constitutional and statutory amendments are being proposed for the 2018 ballot. Here are the top six issues you may vote on this year.
In 2017, according to a Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment report accessible below, 69 terminally ill Coloradans received a prescription for medication under the End of Life Options Act, a measure originally known as Proposition 106 that was approved by voters in November 2016 and went into effect the following month. Fifty of those patients obtained their prescriptions from Colorado pharmacies, and while the CDPHE doesn’t know how many used them, the department received death certificates for 56 of them.
Dr. Joseph Cohen, an obstetrician for 35 years before becoming a cannabis practitioner, explained how cannabis can be used to manage pain and other issues that the elderly commonly experience.
Back in 2013, we told you about Boobies Rock!, which sent hot girls into bars to sell merchandise emblazoned with the company’s name that supposedly raised money to fight cancer — although many if not most of the proceeds allegedly went into the pocket of the organization’s founder, Adam Shryock. Over the years that followed, Shryock went to jail several times for reasons related to this and other scams, and now, he’s headed back again, for failing to file a tax return in regard to his ill-gotten gains.
The Super Bowl LII match-up between the New England Patriots and the Philadelphia Eagles, which hits American screens on Sunday, February 4, has generated little interest among folks not living in those cities, since most observers expected the Pats and rightfully hated quarterback Tom Brady to clobber a backup-QB-helmed Philly squad without breaking a sweat. But Denver Broncos fans pissed that their team didn’t get anywhere close to the big game after winning it just two short years ago should feel better after checking out the following list of the worst Super Bowls ever. After all, the Broncos played in four of them, including three of the bottom six.
At 5:30 p.m. tonight, February 2, at Colorado State University, members of an anti-fascist organization are expected to come face to face with alleged neo-Nazi recruiters from the Traditionalist Worker Party, which has been identified as a hate group fueled by white supremacist views. The potential for trouble has led CSU president Tony Frank to send out a campus-wide denunciation of the TWP that makes prominent mention of a safety plan developed in the hope of preventing violence.
According to Seedo, larger American cities such as New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston and Phoenix would see the most tax revenue if the country legalized pot.
A small group of students staged a walk out at the magnet school off 6th and Fox streets and marched through downtown to the Denver Public School central administration building to protest potential budget cuts. If the worst does come to pass, reductions could take hold in the very department that draws students to the magnet school.
Denver District Attorney Beth McCann has signed on to an amicus brief regarding The City of Los Angeles v. Jeff Sessions, a lawsuit in which L.A. is taking on the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump over a policy to base grants from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) in part on whether or not municipalities aid with federal immigration enforcement. McCann says she added her name to a list of 33 prominent prosecutors and law enforcement officials nationwide despite the possibility that Sessions and company could target Denver for retaliation as a result.
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According to new data released by the Colorado Department of Transportation, Colorado traffic fatalities are up 29 percent since 2014, with casualties last year reaching their highest total since 2004. In addition, CDOT has shared data about the counties and cities in the state with the most traffic deaths overall and separate statistics about the incidents that involved an impaired driver. Many but not all of the places with the worst figures can be traced to the Denver metro area.
Hours after Denver Environmental Health announced a ban on the sale of kratom for human consumption in the city late last yeaer, DEH representatives allegedly stormed into a local business selling the herbal substance, which has gained popularity for its pain-relieving effects, and ordered stock valued in the thousands of dollars to be destroyed on the spot. A lawyer for the shop managed to stop that from happening, and he’s now preparing for a February 8 appeal hearing over what went down.
There is a consistent factor in any sort of cannabis product that helps extreme pain: potency.
After this last round of legislators gone wild in Colorado — four politicians have been accused of sexual harassment in two months — lawyers have descended on the Capitol to teach handsy politicians how to maneuver the murky waters of a mixed-gender professional workplace.
Since the Equifax data breach, where more than 143 million Americans had their personal data hacked, consumers have been urged to freeze their credit to ensure that their identities were protected. Now, the deadline for free credit freezes are up. Here’s what you need to know.
On Tuesday, January 30, the Colorado Democratic Latino Caucus sent a letter to the Chief Justice of Colorado’s Supreme Court, Nancy Rice, demanding that all state-run probation offices cease voluntary assistance with federal immigration enforcement.
On January 30, Tom Tancredo announced that he was dropping out of the 2018 Colorado governor’s race, and in talking about his reasons for doing so, he speaks in the sort of unfiltered manner that is incredibly rare for any politician, no matter his ideological beliefs. Take these comments about the angry mood among some members of the electorate as epitomized by Internet trolls.
Mere months after getting a tattoo on the left side of his chest that read, “Save Your Heart for Someone Who Leaves You Breathless,” Corey Clemons’s heart stopped. In the immediate aftermath of his fatal shooting in Aurora two years ago, few details were released, and that remained the case even after Lloyd Rickey Henderson was arrested and charged with the crime days later. But now, in the wake of Henderson’s conviction and sentencing, we know that the gunman felled Clemons in front of his mother after using a bullet to intervene in a clash between her son and her live-in boyfriend that both parties would have otherwise survived.
Opium cannabis provides heavy pain and stress relief without instantly making you comatose, giving users a solid hour or so of visual and cerebral effects before pulling them down a hole of blissful fatigue.
At this writing, former Denver disc jockey David Mueller, who singer Taylor Swift said “grabbed my bare ass” at a Pepsi Center concert in 2013, is on the air at his new station, KIX 92.7 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and trying his damnedest to dodge controversy. During the portions of the broadcast we heard, Mueller, referring to himself simply as Jackson (and not Stonewall Jackson, as has been widely reported), studiously avoided any mention of the angry pop star looming over his career while hosting one of the most awkward and boring shows in the history of radio.
The 2018 race for governor of Colorado just got a lot less interesting. Tom Tancredo has reportedly dropped out of the contest, citing an inability to raise enough money for him to be competitive.
Just as Amazon compiles data about consumers’ searches and web activities to push product recommendations, the company is obtaining a shocking amount of economic, demographic and infrastructure data from the cities bidding for HQ2.
