Marijuana as sacrament: Jason Wimler to use religious weed defense in...
Earlier this week, we spoke with Roger Christie of THC Ministry, who's readying an injunction that, if successful, would essentially treat medical marijuana dispensaries like churches. In ...
View ArticleFireworks, free food, used cars and Jesus: Kenny Be's Sign Language
Would combining Jesus Christ and used car sales be considered an unholy alliance? Apparently not at "Freedom Autos" on Federal Blvd. Jesus Christ's bigger billing on the street sign (pictu...
View ArticleeBay bids for Boulder's RedLaser and wins: Download app for free here
Occipital is a Boulder startup that just hit the big time. The company's just been acquired by eBay on the strength of its RedLaser app for iPhones, which scans barcodes, allowing users to c...
View ArticleBoulder County Caregivers opens the door to friendly pros
In "Mile Highs and Lows," Westword offers a no-holds-barred look at what goes on behind the locked doors of marijuana dispensaries, whether they resemble swanky bars, sterile dentist's offic...
View ArticleOur updated medical-marijuana directory
The latest entry in our Mile Highs and Lows dispensary reviews feature has just been published: Join The Wildflower Seed at Boulder County Caregivers. And there's more where that came from. ...
View ArticlePeeps trial marks big defeat in the War on Easter
When Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert first "reported" about Carol Burdick, who says she was evicted from her apartment for putting a Peeps display over her door, he said her treatment was ...
View ArticleBoulder jogger attacked: Sketch released in second similar incident this month
If you're a woman in Boulder who likes to enjoy the great outdoors, you can't be reassured by the latest release from the Boulder Police department. Shortly after news broke about an attac...
View ArticleTy Lawson still Nuggets trade bait for tonight's NBA draft?
A Denver blogs three-peat. Jeremy from Roundball Mining Company is hearing Ty Lawson's no longer being dangled for a draft pick. Was a Jane Norton aide speaking for her when he sympathize...
View ArticleTop five (fake) iPhone apps that would inspire us to camp out for the latest...
Last night and this morning, thousands of people across the nation roughed it outside Apple stores to be among the first, well, thousands of people to poke the touchpad of the new iPhone 4....
View Article2012: Mayan end-times prophecies, courtesy of PeaceJam
It's been quite a year for PeaceJam, the homegrown organization that uses Nobel Peace Prize winners to empower kids to fight for peace around the globe. But the challenges of the past year -...
View ArticleWestboro Baptist Church poll results: Next, they should hate guinea pigs......
Last week, we asked you to guess what Westboro Baptist Church might hate next after they declared their loathing for the American flag. Now, just in time for the Fred Phelps Traveling Circus...
View ArticleOperation Cripsland lands Rock, Lil Walt, Ken Dog and more on weapons, drug...
Yesterday, the U.S. Attorneys Office announced the latest busts in its Operation Cripsland campaign -- eight arrests on weapon and drug charges to supplement a roundup of nine others last y...
View ArticleBest bank robber nickname ever: The Formerly Known as the Perennial Bandit...
The nicknaming fiends at the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force faced a challenge when the guy they'd nicknamed the Perennial Bandit earlier this month started knocking over joints ahea...
View ArticleMedical marijuana dispensary ban invites problems even if it's right, says...
A dispensary ban in Colorado Springs seems bound for the November ballot -- but this development leaves Springs city council member Darryl Glenn torn. On the one hand, he agrees with Attor...
View ArticleKen Buck would be easier to beat than Jane Norton, says Colorado Dem's Pat Waak
Proof that Ken Buck, once thought to be an also-ran in the U.S. Senate race, is now perceived as a serious threat: He's the target of attacks from fellow Republican senate hopeful Jane Nort...
View ArticleNuggets draft no-show: Isn't anyone trying to make this team better?
Reading last night's live Denver Stiffs NBA draft thread the morning after is simultaneously funny and sad. Funny because of the range of emotions. Sad because the Nuggets didn't manage to ...
View ArticleBody farm: Rotting corpses to be studied near a landfill?
As a proud native of Grand Junction and graduate of the city's Mesa State College, I'm not going to joke about the institution's latest gambit -- the creation of a so-called "body farm," wh...
View ArticleJoe Nacchio busts out after resentencing with Prison Rapper: Kenny Be's...
Poor Joe Nacchio! The Denver U.S. District judge who handled his resentencing hearing just shaved two months off of his six-year, all-expenses-paid vacation at a plush Pennsylvania Country ...
View ArticleI-25 between Santa Fe and I-70 most dangerous section of Interstate in Colorado
Drivers who travel Interstate 25 between Santa Fe and Interstate 70 on a daily basis probably won't be shocked to learn that, statistically speaking, this stretch appears to be the most dan...
View ArticleDenver's less manly than it was last year? Step over here and say that!
And now, our (very deserving) Shmucks of the Week. Last year, Denver was named the fifth manliest city in the U.S., which struck us as about four slots too low, but at least in the ballpar...
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