Big cities aren’t well represented in a new survey of the safest places in Colorado. Of the twenty communities considered the state’s safest, only three are in the Denver-Boulder metro area. Moreover, all of the latter are suburbs or outlying localities, and two fall toward the bottom of the roster.
Denver’s Citizen Oversight Board is calling on the Denver Sheriff Department to allow nursing mothers in custody to provide breast milk to their infants rather than discarding it in an approach known as “pump and dump.”
A new federal study shows that marijuana use among teens in Colorado has fallen below levels seen prior to the implementation of Amendment 64, the measure that legalized limited recreational cannabis sales in the state. Given the report’s origins, attorney and activist Brian Vicente, who co-authored Amendment 64, says haters of progressive marijuana laws such as Attorney General Jeff Sessions will find it more difficult than ever to suggest that these statistics are flawed.
Thanks to CBD’s rise in popularity, you can buy edibles and certain strains with THC levels of anywhere from 1 to 12 percent.
The Coffee Joint, a a planned coffee shop and pot lounge at 1136 Yuma Court, just off Interstate 25 and West Eleventh Avenue, submitted its application on Friday, December 8, according to Denver Excise and Licenses Department director of public affairs Daniel Rowland.
But for most of the instructors at Colorado’s community colleges, the holidays offer not a respite but a time of great anxiety and financial strain.
Twelve months of meetings. Discussion among 23 people about parliamentary procedures and committee positions. Hours spent debating the nuances of words like “gentrification.” Listening to reports from Denver’s Office of Economic Development. Public comment periods. Presentations from community groups about how Denver should tackle its affordable housing crisis.
Compelling questions about CBD products showing up on drug tests, age requirements to buy CBD products and many more CBD-related inquiries dominated our most popular questions of 2017.
After your Denver Broncos defeated the New York Jets 23-0 yesterday, December 10, messages from Twitter-using fans relieved that the team had finally broken its eight-game losing skid were countered by tweets ripping the squad for winning a meaningless contest and hurting the prospects for the best-possible draft picks next year.
Entrepreneur Scott Pack is the target of an amended lawsuit that builds on a complaint about what the attorney who filed the first one called the largest marijuana fraud case in Colorado history. Pack was also the subject of a surprising attack on the website of his old company, Harmony & Green, in which what were described as former employees juxtaposed apologies for his actions with photos that portrayed him as living it up after being indicted by an Arapahoe County grand jury for allegedly ripping off investors for as much as $10 million.
Nathan Enright, a 21-year-old who’d recently moved to Larimer County from Libertyville, Illinois to attend college, is the second person to have died at a Colorado ski resort during the 2017-2018 season. Enright’s injury took place while snowboarding at Keystone on December 2, the same day U.S. Armed Services member Collin Zak perished at Monarch, but his death wasn’t reported for nearly a week.
This week our Stoner offered them some suggestions for how to enjoy a true Rocky Mountain high at a ski area. Readers had their own ideas.
“Dating in Denver blows because there is an epidemic where a large percentage of single Denver men are apathetic and lazy.”
Westword’s most-read news stories of 2017.
Famed skiier and Colorado resident Lindsey Vonn jumped into the political fray when she told CNN that if she makes the U.S. team for the Winter Olympics games, she plans on representing her home country — but not its commander in chief.
Westword’s most-read marijuana stories of 2017.
Industry executives and advocates from across the country came to the birthplace of retail cannabis to see who’d be recognized for their influence, and Colorado was well represented. Twelve of the business that went home with trophies are based in Colorado, while a handful of individual winners are from here, too.
“All our partners already do some form of work in the community, and we had a discussion about how affordable housing is so difficult.”
To better mirror consumption trends, the study uses subjects who just dabbed hash…but not on campus.
The City of Denver should be more transparent in the way it spends our tax dollars, specifically money from legal cannabis revenue, according to Denver Auditor Timothy O’Brien.
The mystery behind the death of Colorado mountain-biking pioneer Mike Rust has finally been solved. Yesterday, December 7, a jury in Saguache County, found Charles Moises Gonzales guilty of killing Rust, whose remains weren’t found until nearly seven years after he vanished in 2009 under mysterious circumstances.
As we’ve reported, Frontier, which promotes itself as Denver’s hometown airline, has had one public embarrassment after another of late, including bottom-scraping quality ratings in the wake of its disastrous response to a snowstorm this time last year and comments by its main investor in which he compared customers who complained to teenage spoiled brats. As such, a downtown Denver protest yesterday, December 7, by Frontier pilots who eagerly declared themselves to be “100 Percent Ready to Strike” qualifies as the latest horror story for the carrier, which has had no shortage of such tales in the past.
