Last month, we noted that gun sales were booming in Colorado following mass shootings in Colorado Springs and San Bernardino. According to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, 42,271 background checks for gun purchases were made in Colorado during November 2015 — a total higher than it’s been in that…
In 2013, Colorado passed a THC driving bill, which established a cannabis intoxication level of 5 nanograms per milliliter of blood. The standard was controversial from the jump, in part because THC tends to react very differently depending upon who consumes it — and the substance lingers in one’s system…
Remember when marijuana was still illegal? We barely do. Westword’s coverage of the Colorado cannabis scene has taken readers through the legislation that first made medical marijuana legal through the early days of unregulated chaos to full legalization and into 2015’s quirky, but ever-maturing industry. Some older issues, like edibles packaging,…
A recent study in states where medical or recreational marijuana is legal shows that most employers haven’t let the social shift in legalization soften their tolerance, or lack thereof, regarding employees who test positive for the substance. Conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management, the survey polled 623 human…
The headline of our post reporting that Colorado marijuana sales topped $100 million in August asked the question, “How long will they keep climbing higher?” We now have the answer to that question. Sales dropped from that peak in September, and again in October, the most recent month for which…
When Wanda James and Scott Durrah shut down their edibles company, Simply Pure, in 2012, the enterprising Denver couple knew that they weren’t saying goodbye forever to the pot industry. And they weren’t saying farewell to the Simply Pure brand, either: Their dispensary of the same name opened for recreational…
Yes, rent can be expensive in Denver. But some places are less expensive than others. The folks at Zumper, our source for a September post that highlighted the ten Denver neighborhoods with the cheapest rent for a one-bedroom apartment, has updated its figures for the Mile High City. And at…
Mass shootings such as the attack in San Bernardino yesterday have led to plenty of public figures, including President Barack Obama, to call for gun-law reforms. But a good many members of the consuming public have reacted to the heartbreaking news very differently. On Black Friday, November 27 — the…
A few weeks back, we shared figures from Coldwell Banker related to the ten most expensive places to buy a house in Colorado. Number 1 on the list? Boulder, where the average price for a single-familiy house was said to be more than $1 million. Unsurprisingly, real estate brokers in…
The folks at Redfin Research Center recently highlighted the most economically integrated neighborhoods in major cities around the country, including Denver. And how does the site define an “economically integrated” neighborhood? One in which homes in a variety of prices ranges attract residents with different income levels — or, as author Eric…
Denver’s quick response to the legalization of recreational marijuana — the adoption of the 2013 Denver Retail Marijuana Code, and the creation of systems to enforce that code — has won plaudits from around the country and attracted hundreds of government officials to a city-sponsored two-day Marijuana Management Symposium earlier this…
The marijuana business is booming in Colorado, with pot sales topping $100 million for the first time in August. But should investors put their money into the cannabis industry? The State of Colorado doesn’t quite say “no,” but it comes close. Colorado’s Division of Securities has issued an “investor alert”…
We recently told you about the ten most expensive Colorado cities to rent a two-bedroom apartment, based on new data from ApartmentList.com. The site also crunched the numbers to determine where in Colorado rent costs are going up the fastest on a year-to-year basis — and there are definite differences…
In May, we posted about the airlines with the least and most consumer complaints according to the Air Travel Consumer Report, a document published semi-annually by the Department of Transportation. And Frontier, Denver’s hometown airline, had an awful performance, finishing dead last. Now, the Transportation Department has published its latest installment…
Earlier this month, we told you about the ten most expensive Colorado cities to rent a two-bedroom apartment. We knew prices from the list of Colorado cities with the most expensive house prices would be considerably higher — but we were still surprised by the eye-popping nature of the digits…
Celebrity-endorsed pot products are the wave of the future, with Tommy Chong backing a strain dubbed Chongstar and Willie Nelson lining up private equity funding for a brand to be called Willie’s Reserve. But they’ve got nothing on Tha Doggfather. Last night at a launch party in Denver, rapper Snoop…
ApartmentList.com has just released the latest data about rental prices in Colorado, based on October 2015 figures. And for those accustomed to sticker shock owing to high prices (not to mention assorted horror stories), the news isn’t all bad. In some communities, month-to-month rents have actually gone down at least…
We are entering the exciting season of I-70 traffic jams and borderline road-rage psychopathy. In heated debates, we discuss the possible culprits: the government, Californians or that ever-popular scapegoat, idiots. Leaving the house at 5 a.m. go-time, dead-eyed, over-caffeinated and mostly still drunk, dreading the impending hangover, we crawl along in…
Golden Globe-winning actress and part-time Colorado resident Melanie Griffith wants you to stay at her spectacular Aspen abode — either temporarily or permanently. And she’s invested enough in the process that she actually appears in a video about the $9 million property. That’s a first for a celebrity according to…
In recent years, we’ve grown accustomed to discovering that rent prices in Denver are rising faster than anywhere else in the country. But a new survey by RentRange suggests that the situation is finally starting to moderate, at least in one particular area. The site looked at the average rental rate…
Is it illegal in Boulder for marijuana businesses to sponsor booths that prominently display their names at public events? Boulder’s City Attorney suggests that it is, while the man in charge of a local dispensary accused of violating the law by way of a booth at Out Boulder’s Pridefest celebration…
In 2009, Colorado business leaders came up with an idea to boost the state’s then-sagging economy: help cities and counties build new tourist attractions by allowing some of the state sales-tax revenue that would be generated by those attractions to be rebated to the developers to pay off construction costs…
