Emmett Reistroffer was one of the authors of Initiative 300 and worked on the campaign to get the social-use ordinance passed last November. Now the event planner serves on the city’s social consumption advisory committee. We sat down with Reistroffer to chat about social use, the first committee meeting, and what he thinks about how the process is going.
Michael Sura, the defendant in a lawsuit over a ski accidet at Snowmass, is 72-years-old. Yet the complaint filed on behalf of Stuart Pendleton, a resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico, contends that Sura was racing another skier at the time of the crash at what the complaint, on view below, describes as a “fast and uncontrolled speed.”
Citizens interested in the state’s $1.8 billion plan to expand I-70 through a ten-mile stretch of north Denver and Aurora had a perplexing choice to make last night. They could attend a “community town hall event,” organized by opponents of the project and co-hosted by Denver city councilman Rafael Espinoza and former city auditor Dennis Gallagher. Or they could join a Facebook Live session with Colorado Department of Transportation executive director Shailen Bhatt, which was peppered with questions and concerns about the highway expansion, wedged between other queries about mountain traffic and HOV lanes.
During the six days that I spent in Washington, D.C., covering President Donald Trump’s inauguration, I found myself in the middle of some striking situations – from the historic Women’s March on Washington to an intense riot that destroyed four city blocks of the nation’s capital and caused upwards of $100,000 in damage.
Here are the six best places to buy marijuana late night in and around Denver.
Less than a month after the start of 2017, we’ve already got a candidate for Colorado’s race for governor in 2018. Last week, former state senator Mike Johnston, a Democrat, formally launched his campaign, and he’s already running hard to succeed John Hickenlooper as the state’s chief executive.
Marijuana and hip-hop have a long and harmonious relationship, so much so that the names of most hybrid strains sound like rap-song titles. If I told you I was listening to “Girl Scout Cookies” by OG Kush featuring Durban Poison or “The Truth” by SFV OG featuring Chemdawg, you’d probably think…
Hiking in Colorado during the winter can be absolutely spectacular, but unexpected events that take place in a challenging, high-altitude environment can have dangerous or even deadly consequences. Here are seven tips to avoid making fatal mistakes at this time of year.
For the last four years, anytime police seized cannabis in a criminal investigation, they’ve been required to care for it — either by keeping the plants alive or by returning the marijuana in a usable form to the owner. That’s no longer the case.
The death of John Patrick Walter in Fremont County jail was absolutely unnecessary, according to a lawsuit filed by his family. The complaint contends that Walter was allowed to slowly, painfully expire due to withdrawal from a prescription medication by representatives of a private, for-profit company under contract to provide health-care services for inmates.
Just days after Colorado Department of Transportation officials received a long-awaited final okay to proceed with a $1.8-billion makeover of I-70 through north Denver and Aurora, opponents of the highway expansion are holding a “community town hall event” tonight to discuss what options remain for putting the brakes on the project.
Luke Pelham says he didn’t foresee what was going to happen the night he went to his friend Aaron Tuneberg’s apartment with another eighteen-year-old he barely knew. Pelham didn’t think it would turn tragic — not even when the other guy brought along a bat and a golf club. “If…
It’s taken nearly eight years, but members of the Martinez family, who perform together in a mariachi band, have finally won their lawsuit against the City of Denver over a wrong-house police raid during which they were beaten by mistake, then wrongly charged with assault against the officers who’d attacked them.
Just shy of two years after a pair of Denver police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Jessie Hernandez while she was behind the wheel of a stolen car, the department for which they work has announced that they will face no discipline in the controversial case, since their actions didn’t violate policy about firing into a moving vehicle in place at the time of the incident.
Thirty percent of marijuana businesses are audited each year by the IRS; cannabis companies are always dealing with new regulations. Wurk is trying to work out solutions for these challenges.
Why has dispensary service been so slow in Colorado lately? Our Stoner has the answer.
Nearly three years ago, the first of three marijuana amnesty boxes was installed at Aspen-Pitkin County Airport. The idea behind the boxes was to give fliers a way to dispose of legal cannabis before they boarded a plane bound for a destination where the substance might be against the law, and Pitkin County Undersheriff Ron Ryan considers the containers to be a success, even though weed isn’t the only aromatic thing sometimes being left in them.
Recent evidence suggests that the Denver Police Department has been dedicating manpower and department resources to monitoring protesters and activists; last year, these efforts included the purchase of a powerful social media surveillance tool called Geofeedia. As Westword addressed in the cover story “Persons of Interest,” these revelations raise concerns that the department is violating its own policy against collecting or storing intelligence on individuals who are not engaged in criminal activity, but are solely exercising First Amendment-protected activities. This is also the same type of surveillance that put the city and the DPD in hot water in 2002 when its “Spy Files” program was discovered.
On Saturday, January 21, as at least half-a-million demonstrators flooded the National Mall in Washington, D.C, for the Women’s March on Washington, there was a very different kind of scene in the basement of the nearby H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse of the D.C. Superior Court. While the mood at the Women’s March was buoyant, there was an air of gravity at the courthouse.
After four states legalized recreational marijuana last year and twice that many approved new medical marijuana laws, at least eleven more are considering changing their laws in 2017. Here’s which ones are proposing what legislation: 1. Connecticut Not only are lawmakers hoping to expand Connecticut’s five-year-old medical marijuana legislation, but…
Courtney Plante has taken a plea agreement in regard to attempted murder allegations against her significant other Sean Overstreet dating back to January 2016, when she was nineteen and he was 37. The deal trims time off her possible sentence but doesn’t let her off the hook for a crime against her former teacher that was as violent as it was bizarre.
Over recent weeks, there have been a series of high-profile crimes on Regional Transportation District buses in the Denver metro area, including a stabbing, an assault and a case of indecent exposure. Yet an RTD spokesman argues that despite such regrettable incidents, the district’s buses, trains and assorted properties are safe — and getting safer all the time.
