Update: Last month, a judge sealed a photo of singer Taylor Swift and former Denver DJ David Mueller at the request of lawyers referencing the pair, who are currently locked in legal contact. Mueller sued Swift on the allegation that she had led to his firing by falsely accusing him of…
Comments are still pouring in about the classy way Denver protesters — and the Denver Police Department — behaved on Thursday night during a massive demonstration against the election results. There will be another community gathering at 2:30 p.m. today, November 13, in Civic Center Park. “It is time that we…
When Donald Trump was announced the winner of the 2016 presidential race, Colorado’s pot advocates got to work on a petition demanding the president-elect leave legal marijuana alone. They have reason to be nervous; people close to Trump, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, have publicly spoken against states’ legalizing pot. Though Christie was booted from Trump’s transition team on Friday, Giuliani is still close to the Donald and has been floated as a potential Attorney General. Yeah, holy shit is right.
While violence broke out in other cities during demonstrations against the election of Donald Trump, thousands of people came together in Denver on November 10 in a peaceful, yet powerful protest. Despite the brief blockage of I-25, there were no arrests and some protesters praised the Denver Police Department officers…
The comedian, pot advocate and cannabis-line celebrity was visiting Denver for the launch party of his cannabis line, Chong’s Choice, and the addition of edibles and pre-rolls to the menu.
Jose Espino-Paez and Osvaldo Corrales-Castro are challenging what their attorney called in the Colorado Supreme Court Thursday an inconsistency in federal law that unfairly treats immigrants in deferred-judgment cases.
Go big or go home: It’s good advice in life — and in candidacy to become a Schmuck of the Week. And judging by the info in his hilariously abusive arrest affidavit, Josh Gerchen has learned this lesson very, very well. A 39-year-old St. Louis resident, Gerchen was busted in Aspen…
Update: A few months back, we told you about the quizzical decision by John Bowlen, son of Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, to appeal his wrist-slap of a conviction in a domestic-violence harassment incident last year based on a technicality; see our previous coverage below. That appeal has now been rejected…
On November 10 the International Association of Political Consultants, which is holding its annual gathering in Denver, offered a panel on The Politics of Marijuana. Four experts from various areas of the cannabis industry addressed an audience of about forty, describing how consultants can help the eight states that just…
The election of Donald Trump has raised concerns on a seemingly endless number of fronts. Note that the day after he defeated Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, immigrant children were in tears at schools across Denver out of fear that their undocumented parents would be deported before the final bell…
One of the largest protests in recent Denver history took place last night — and the target was president-elect Donald Trump. A crowd estimated in the thousands marched along the 16th Street Mall, as well as the areas on and near the grounds of the State Capitol. Multiple street closures…
Tommy Chong will be answering your questions and teaching you how to roll the perfect joint during a Facebook Live video on our Denver Westword Facebook page today at 3:00 p.m. Get your questions (and rolling papers) ready. Chong, the actor, comedian and lifelong cannabis advocate, is in town for the official Colorado launch of his Chong’s Choice edibles and pre-rolls, adding to the three certified strains of his Chong’s Choice cannabis line grown by Verde Naturals.
Loveland opens today. We’ve gathered insider and ski bum tips and info on where to splurge (and drink) and what’s new.
We’re not one to believe in jinxes, but it sure seems like there’s some bad juju lingering around RTD’s vaunted A Line. The “Train to the Plane” was designed to connect the airport to downtown, with a few stops along the way that would make some neighborhoods (perhaps most notably…
The “No on 200” team in Pueblo County has proposed that Colorado become home to the National Marijuana Museum, and what better county to host it than the one that fought against repealing Amendment 64 at the ballot box this election. The organizers hope to have the museum open by…
In basic ways, the three Denver-area schools are different. One is public, one is charter, one is Catholic. But demographically, they have a lot in common. Their students come from exceedingly diverse national, ethnic and religious backgrounds, and their families tend to be on the lower end of the economic…
Among the narratives to emerge from the wreckage of Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential campaign is the theory that she might have come out on top in the key state of Florida if it weren’t for the impact there of Gary Johnson and William Weld, the ticket representing the Libertarian Party. At…
Marijuana supporters, industry reps and advocates gathered at two election-night watch parties in Denver on November 8. Employees of five cannabis companies and their guests met up at the WeWork building on 17th and Platte streets, where tracking data for all nine states with marijuana measures on the ballot was…
Political analyst Eric Sondermann offered educated guesses the week before Tuesday’s big vote for our post headlined “Who and What Will Win in Colorado’s 2016 Election: An Expert’s Predictions” — and as we noted in our followup piece, “Who and What Won in Colorado Election 2016,” his accuracy was highly…
A margin of 7,600 votes determined whether the retail marijuana market in Pueblo would survive this election. Question 200 appeared on the ballot after opposition groups campaigned against the legal marijuana industry. If passed, 200 would have eliminated the cultivation of recreational marijuana, ended retail sales, closed existing cannabis businesses,…
A halfway house operation in Colorado Springs, where two men died from suspected drug overdoses last month, has also been sharply criticized by state and county officials for bungling two separate investigations into sexual misconduct among its residents. The same company recently fired an employee who was suspected of “assisting clients in altering urine samples” that are required as part of mandatory drug-testing for felons making a transition from prison to the community.
Last night the United States entered a post-Trump America, where “people have an all-access pass to be jerks publicly,” says Denise Soler-Cox, the director of Being Ñ, a film about the American-born children of immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries.
