While Denver’s Civic Center Park was wild on 4/20, drawing big crowds and sparking 130 arrests or citations over the course of the weekend, the scene at CU-Boulder — once the setting for what one advocate described as “an orgasm of cannabis consumption” — was anything but. For the third…
Last week, we told you about the latest Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, popularly known as the happiest cities list, as well as the two Colorado places that finished in the top ten. But because Gallup-Healthways also produced a survey specifically about the State of Colorado, we’re able to drill even deeper…
“I remember when this was, like, a hundred white kids out here smoking weed under the trees here on 4/20 protesting the government. Now look at this. We’re waiting in line for twenty minutes just to get patted down by security just to get in the park. This is awesome,…
Following Richard Kirk’s alleged murder of wife Kristine Kirk (see our previous coverage below), most of the attention has focused on the question of whether a marijuana edible had caused the hallucinations and erratic behavior that resulted in her tragic death. But partly lost in this debate has been a…
As we noted in our roundup of the top twenty tweets about 4/20 at Civic Center Park over the weekend, some locals were less than thrilled about the annual event. But few observers were as negative as Smart Colorado, an organization devoted to “protecting youth from marijuana.” In the wake…
Denver blog posts put safety first. At our Backbeat blog, Ben Westhoff takes a look inside the drug culture at Coachella against the backdrop of one young fan’s death. The Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin argues that the gay-marriage future is determined. Denver PR Blog’s a little confused why a recent…
Four years into High Times throwing the Cannabis Cup in Denver, and it finally feels like the event has hit its full, madhouse-crazy stride — thanks in large part to a venue change from the cramped, maze-like confines of Exdo to the wide-open, somewhat-dingy-but-perfect-for-throwing-a-wild-party confines of the Denver Mart…
We got a lot of response to our post about the impending departure of Kirk Montgomery from 9News. One reader looked at the situation in the context of the many local TV-news stations that have ditched their entertainment reporters of late — among them CBS4, which said goodbye to 25-year-veteran…
April 20th marked the hundredth anniversary of the Ludlow Massacre, one of the darkest and most neglected episodes in Colorado history. This week’s cover story explores the events that led up to this deadly conflict between striking coal miners and state troops, as well as the impact the tragedy had…
In February 2013, we told you about Craig Brittan, the Colorado Springs man behind Is Anybody Down?, a website that published “involuntary” nude photos — meaning intimate images typically intended to embarrass ex-lovers. The popular term for such web destinations? Revenge porn sites. Brittan’s address is now history, but the…
It’s been a while since the Colorado Avalanche truly captured the imagination of sports fans around our fair state. So, with the Avs up 2-0 against the Minnesota Wild in their first-round playoff series and game three slated for tonight, it’s time for those who haven’t been paying close attention…
Niche.com has compiled a wide-ranging list of the best American cities and neighborhoods for millennials. It’s a wide-ranging roster encompassing major communities across the country — and one Denver residential area landed in the top ten. Continue to count down the Niche’s photo-illustrated picks, featuring text and data from the…
Update below: Last week, Denver Police Department spokesman Sonny Jackson told us that officers would have a greater presence at the annual 4/20 event at Civic Center Park due both to the still-unsolved shooting that took place at last year’s rally and laws against public consumption of marijuana. However, he…
Did you notice that yesterday was 4/20? And that it was kind of a big deal in Denver? Twitter certainly did. There was an explosion of tweets on the topic yesterday — and while most of them were positive, there were definitely some exceptions. We collected what struck us as…
Editor’s note: Our marijuana critic spent the day at both the High Times Cannabis Cup and the 4/20 rally concert at Civic Center Park. We’ll have full coverage of events in the coming days. In the meantime, check out his top ten eleven pipes and products on display out in…
If all of this hysterical talk over the past week about marijuana being a contributing factor in the deaths of two people in Denver seemed familiar to you, dear cannabis historian, it’s because it should be. This isn’t the first time Colorado news outlets have latched onto the myth that…
In a post yesterday, a Denver police spokesman discussed the department’s approach to 4/20 at Civic Center Park given laws against public smoking and a still-unsolved shooting that cut the even short in 2013. Plenty of readers weighed in on the issue, with a number of them raising concerns about…
Denver blog posts try to live up to expectations. At our Cafe Society blog, Patricia Calhoun highlights a comment from a reader who’s definitely underwhelmed by so-called gourmet burgers. Mile High Hockey’s c6hor8 recaps the Avs’ truly wild victory over the Wild in last night’s playoff match. At Denver Urbanism,…
During an attack on a fifteen-year-old Littleton girl, Xavier McDaniel allegedly told her, “Get ready to die.” Instead, she fought back, surviving the attack despite sustaining fearsome injuries. And now, McDaniel, 22, could spend the rest of his life in prison for a crime committed while he was out on…
The Colorado company that invented the formula for MED-a-Mints, a popular cannabis-infused mint candy, has announced that it will sue Denver-based edibles manufacturer Dixie Elixirs for trademark violations. Inventor Gary Gabrel claims that Dixie Elixirs violated the contract between them when it changed the MED-a-Mints packaging, making its own name…
As you know, marijuana laws in Colorado are very different from those maintained by the U.S. government. Recreational pot possession and distribution is allowed here under a myriad of circumstances, while the feds continue to consider it very illegal — and if they find cannabis during the course of an…
Governor John Hickenlooper recently compared adult marijuana use to drinking a beer in the afternoon. But the State of Colorado isn’t treating the products equally in advance of the annual 4/20 events taking place this weekend. We don’t recall officials cautioning about the use and abuse of ale leading up…
