Author: Kristen Wyatt
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Colorado budget proposal cuts youth surveys on drugs, sex
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Colorado schoolchildren may not be asked about their drug use and sex habits in anonymous surveys anymore, under a bipartisan budget proposal moving through the Legislature. The budget draft introduced Monday cuts about $745,000 to end the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey. The youth-risk surveys are sent every other year to randomly selected middle and high…
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2 bills advance in Colorado to curb growing pot at home
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The nation’s most generous grow-your-own marijuana laws came closer Monday to being curbed in Colorado, where the state House advanced a pair of bills aimed at cracking down on people who grow weed outside the commercial, taxed system. House Bill 17-1220 would set a statewide limit of 16 marijuana plants per house, down from a current…
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Next stop governor’s desk for ballot selfies
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The Colorado state Senate approved a bill Thursday that would make it legal to share completed ballots on social media. The bi-partisan House Bill 17-1014, sponsored by Reps. Paul Rosenthal, D-Denver, Dave Williams, R-Colorado Springs, and Sens. Kerry Donovan, D-Vail, and Owen Hill, R-Colorado Springs, would change a law that was put on hold last year…
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Colorado alcohol debate still bubbling despite new law
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Colorado isn’t done arguing about where alcohol should be sold. A bill moving through the state Senate would allow more Walmarts and other big-box stores to sell liquor, not just beer and wine. It’s a spirited debate less than a year after Colorado made its biggest alcohol change since the end of Prohibition by allowing…
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Trump dominates debate in Colorado congressional races
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Four-term Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman has done everything imaginable to shore up support in a battleground district in the suburbs east of Denver. He keeps up a tireless campaign schedule and has raised far more than any congressional candidate in Colorado, from either party. Coffman learned Spanish after his Aurora-based district was redrawn in…
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Colorado gives marijuana candy a new look to avoid confusion
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Wondering if that brownie contains pot? Colorado has you covered. A requirement that edible marijuana products come with a diamond-shaped stamp and the letters T-H-C – not just on the packaging but on the brownies, candies and other edibles themselves – takes effect Saturday. The rule referencing marijuana’s psychoactive ingredient was added after complaints that…
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Interim committee: Pot for PTSD could be coming to Colorado
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Marijuana pioneer Colorado is poised to add post-traumatic stress disorder to its medical marijuana program, joining 18 other states that consider PTSD a condition treatable by pot. A panel of state lawmakers voted 5-0 Wednesday to endorse the addition of PTSD to Colorado’s 2000 medical pot law. The vote doesn’t have immediate legal effect; it’s…
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Colorado voters to consider suicide drugs for terminally ill
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Colorado voters this fall will decide whether terminally ill people should be allowed to receive prescriptions for drugs to end their own lives. The “Medical Aid in Dying” measure was certified Monday as having enough petition signatures to make ballots this fall. Five other states have some law allowing the terminally ill to end their lives.…
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Vail Resorts buying Whistler, the largest North American ski area
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The largest resort operator in North America is buying the continent’s biggest ski area, the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Vail Resorts Inc. announced Monday that it was purchasing Whistler Blackcomb Holdings Inc., the Canadian ski resort company, for $1.06 billion, adding to its aggressive expansion. Located in British Columbia, Whistler Blackcomb is the…
