Boulder’s Becky Ann Lee is a self-proclaimed psychic. But she apparently wasn’t able to foresee what would happen to her after she bilked a heiress to the LaCoste clothing fortune out of more than $232,000.
After hours of testimony on Wednesday, March 8, a Colorado House committee approved Senate Bill 17-17, which would make people suffering from PTSD and other stress disorders eligible for medical marijuana, in an 8-1 vote. It now moves on to a full vote of the House.
Of the nine deaths related to accidents at Colorado ski resorts during the current season, four are tied to Breckenridge. This represents an unfortunate trend: Four skiers also died at Breckenridge last season, out of nine across the entire state, with all of the incidents at Breck taking place during last March or afterward. That adds up to eight Breckenridge-related deaths in approximately one year and nearly half the current official total of eighteen fatalities during the past two seasons combined. No other Colorado resort, and there are over two-dozen of them, appears to have suffered more than one casualty. Yet after multiple contacts from Westword in recent weeks about the rising number of recent tragedies, Breckenridge’s only response has been a statement that essentially blames the victims for their own deaths.
A not-safe-for-work Tumblr page featuring images such as a Pokémon named Squirtle having sex with a naked woman mistakenly wound up linked on the website for Colorado state senator Kevin Priola, a conservative Republican who prides himself on his family values platform.
The Stoner answers questions about why Colorado dispensaries scan IDs.
Tess Smith, a fifteen-year-old from Wichita, Kansas, broke her leg while skiing at Breckenridge on March 3. Afterward, she became unresponsive and died on March 6. An autopsy performed yesterday was intended to explain her inexplicable decline, but Lawrence Smith, Tess’s father, corresponding via e-mail, notes that the mystery has not yet been solved.
I picked up newly acquainted lovers from a raucous house party at four in the morning and chuckled as they tried to learn more about each other in the backseat.
After an absence of more than eight years, former Channel 2 anchor Ernie Bjorkman is returning to the station, where he’ll take over as co-host of the morning program Daybreak from Tom Green, who announced that he was stepping away from the gig earlier this year. And the path Bjorkman has taken to get back to the CW affiliate is flat-out bizarre, encompassing gigs as a veterinary technician, a member of the Peace Corps who served in Ethiopia and a male model, among other things.
Last night, Senator Cory Gardner was scheduled to take part in his second telephone town hall over the span of eight days, a tactic apparently intended to undermine criticism about his failure to conduct in-person town halls, despite multiple demands that he do so and even a late February forum in Denver that went on in his absence. I wasn’t planning to take part, but a Gardner robo-call urged me to do so, albeit when the event should have been almost over.
The Colorado Legislature is loaded up with marijuana measures this week, including proposals to establish pot clubs and to add PTSD to the list of patient ailments that can be treated with medical marijuana. And on March 8, the Senate Business, Labor and Technology committee approved Senator Tim Neville’s bill to allow medical marijuana delivery systems for patients and businesses.
The Denver Police Department has compiled data on the ten metro-area intersections with the most accidents during the first two months-plus of 2017. The statistics reveal that the most dangerous spots for Denver drivers right now aren’t on surface streets, no matter how busy. Each entry in the top ten pertains to locations at or near exits on one of the two major interstates that slice through the area, I-25 and I-70.
On Tuesday, March 7, a group of demonstrators gathered at Denver International Airport to welcome refugees and protest President Trump’s new “travel ban,” which he signed on March 6 and which goes into effect on March 16. The protest was an echo of a larger demonstration that took place at…
A group of students at the University of Denver’s law school has started a petition requesting that DU reconsider its contract with Sodexo, a global supplier of food services that operates in many universities. DU is in the process of renegotiating its contract with the France-based company, which counts nearly 400,000…
Boulder’s Adam Densmore has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the death of Ashley Mead. The details of the homicide are particularly shocking; the largest part of Mead’s body recovered to date is her torso, from which the organs had been removed according to Densmore’s arrest affidavit, on view below. However, Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett has decided against seeking the death penalty in the case, and in general, he believes the circumstances of a killing shouldn’t be the sole factor for determining whether or not capital punishment is appropriate.
A very popular strain on its own, Girl Scout Coookies is becoming just as beloved for its offspring as it is for itself — if not more. GSC’s kids include Gelato, Platinum GSC, Sherbet and Thin Mints, a couple of which are personal favorites. But Exotic Genetix out of Washington state might’ve created the strongest colt of all with its thunderous Cookies and Cream.
In a 34 to 1 vote, the Colorado Senate passed the Post-Traumatic Stress Bill; on March 8, it’s scheduled for a public hearing before the House State Affairs Committee. Adam Foster, lead attorney on the case, says it’s time that Colorado join the 21 states with medicinal cannabis laws that have approved PTSD as a qualifying condition.
Tien Tran, a native of Hawaii who was serving as an airman at Buckley Air Force base, has been identified as the person who died snowboarding at Eldora on Tuesday, March 7.
For the first time in recent years, all three Colorado chapters of NORML came together to lobby for cannabis on the state level. Denver NORML, Southern Colorado NORML and Colorado NORML joined forces on Tuesday, March 7, to educate state lawmakers on some key cannabis measures, including SB17-184, the Private Marijuana Clubs Open and Public Use bill.
SB17-027 would increase the penalty for texting and driving by $300 and four points per offense.
Last week’s 6-3 vote by the Broomfield City Council to “postpone indefinitely” any action on a proposed moratorium on oil and gas drilling, despite widespread support for such a measure, has left neighborhood organizers puzzling over their next move in the local fracking wars.
Marijuana is now legal in more than half the country, but related areas of the law are taking a while to catch up. Women are still being punished for exposing their babies to marijuana; under child-abuse and child-neglect statutes, women can be arrested for child endangerment or have their babies taken away. Even so, little is known about whether an infant can be harmed if an expectant mother uses marijuana during pregnancy or after birth. Dr. Thomas Hale is working to change that.
A Colorado advocacy organization has formally backed a high-profile lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s original executive orders banning some refugees and immigrants. New variations on the orders, which had been blocked by a federal court, were signed yesterday. Despite tweaks related to the number of Muslim-majority countries targeted (six, rather than the initial seven) and removal of language about giving preference to those who practice majority religions, however, the documents aren’t radically different from to the earlier ones, to which the Colorado Coalition for the Medically Underserved objected due in part to their potential for harming medical care in America. CCMU believes that’s the case not just when it comes to undocumented individuals already in this country, but also for citizens of every description because of reasons that include the large number of foreign-born doctors working in this country and the growing demand for even more, especially in rural areas.
