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Green tide rising
When Colorado legalized cannabis, there were a lot of skeptics who feared the state’s workforce was about to become lazy and unmotivated. It was...
Now in effect
2021 was a busy year for cannabis-related rulemaking and state legislation in Colorado. The industry is maturing, and as it does it’s going through...
Permission to acquiesce
“I want you to give yourself permission to acquiesce,” Ray Stewart of Boulder Sound Therapy tells me before I hop on the massage table...
A Deadhead Cyclist pandemic
It’s often said that “every cloud has a silver lining.” This ubiquitous expression is typically rolled out in the spirit of putting a positive...
Truth follows
A woman wept at the corner of Table Mesa and Harvard Lane, and all I could do was put my hand on her shoulder.
I...
A year in three tracks
“A letter to my younger self” (Ambar Lucid)She enters with just the bright, plucky guitar and when she leaves, she does the same—but in...
Coming of age in an altered world
In March of 2020 I was studying abroad in Barcelona, Spain with a group of friends, enjoying Europe in the way only a careless...
Weed in the rear-view
Things change so fast in the cannabis industry that a year can easily feel like a decade—and 2021 surely did. Laws have been evolving,...
2021 in the rear-view
The space-time continuum seemed to warp this past year, contracting and elongating: While the post-election, pre-insurrection days when election truthers seemed crazy but not...
Fighting the dark side of cannabis
When John Nores became a fish and game warden in California, he anticipated spending his working days catching poachers, checking fishing licenses, and investigating...
Four seasons
WINTER
Daniel Asher, River and Woods
The restaurant world according to Daniel Asher looks a little different than that of the bigger chains spreading across the...
Growing through a labor shortage
It isn’t news at this point so much as common knowledge: Businesses are struggling to hire the help they need. Restaurants, bars, cafes, grocery...
