Ken Buck: No Comment About Case of Chalk Message to Him From Jesus

Representative Ken Buck’s office has no comment about the decision to drop a charge against a woman who wrote the message “Stop Putting Kids in Cages” outside his Castle Rock office and signed it “Jesus” even though his staffers almost certainly decided to turn the incident into a criminal matter in the first place.

The Case for National Pot Ad Standards Before Pot Is Legal Nationally

The National Association of Cannabis Businesses’ draft guidelines to establish a country-wide advertising standard for the marijuana industry was the subject of a months’ long comment period and is expected to be finalized this summer. Doug Fischer, chief legal officer for the NACB, believes such a criterion is needed as soon as possible, even though cannabis remains illegal on a federal level.

Still No Payment for House Greenwood Village SWAT Wrecked Three Years Ago

On June 3, 2015, a home in Greenwood Village was utterly destroyed by a SWAT team after suspected Walmart shoplifter Robert Seacat took refuge inside and refused to come out for nearly twenty hours. More than three years later, home owner Leo Lech still hasn’t received a dime for officers leaving the property in shambles, and his lawsuit against the community over the bizarre episode has been put on the legal slow track, with no immediate resolution in sight.

Ryder Johnson Fund Donates to First Responders in Tragic Search

Rick and Cindy Johnson, parents of Ryder Johnson, who went missing in 2016, established Ryder’s Fund, a charitable enterprise that honors him and the many people who spent hours looking for him. Now, the fund has announced that it will be providing financial support to volunteer first responders with the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, which headed up the search effort, and creating a reserve-crisis-fund initiative.