Gary Ross had back pain, and he treated it with dope. When Ross failed a drug test, his employer promptly fired him. Ross had proof-positive that his drug use was legal. He had a medical marijuana card authorizing him to use the drug for treatment of pain from a back injury sustained while serving in the United States Air Force. Despite his condition and his card -- and despite an injury sustained while serving his country -- the California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the company's decision to fire him. [continues 354 words]
Medicinal Plants Worth More Than $200K, They Say In what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind request for Colorado, a Fort Collins couple is demanding police pay them more than $200,000 for improperly confiscating and destroying 39 marijuana plants. "We are not going to stop the fight," James Masters said Thursday afternoon after filing the request at the Larimer County Justice Center. Masters and his wife, Lisa, say they use marijuana to manage their medical conditions as allowed under Colorado's Amendment 20, approved by voters in 2000. [continues 341 words]
In a little noted decision last month, the U.S. Supreme Court gave judges more discretion in sentencing crack cocaine defendants. In effect, it was a repudiation of the get-tough sentencing guidelines imposed in the 1980s during the so-called war on drugs, an effort that mostly failed. The 7-2 ruling will affect the sentences of some 19,000 federal prisoners, the majority of whom are African American. The unfairness of the law was a key in the court's decision. The sentencing guidelines required a mandatory minimum five-year prison sentence for trafficking in 5 grams of crack cocaine, or 100 times as much as the powdered form of the drug. [continues 255 words]
Felony cases in Mesa County declined in 2007, although drug arrests spiked. Mesa County District Court reported 2,107 felony cases during 2007, compared with 2,115 felony cases during 2006. Felony drug cases increased 19 percent to 220 during 2007. Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautzinger said the increase in drug cases shows that law enforcement and prosecutors are working together to "put the right people behind bars." Other kinds of felony cases decreased last year. Fraud cases and homicides decreased the most, 50 percent. [continues 166 words]
Anew report tells us something most already knew: Blacks in El Paso County are far more likely than whites to be incarcerated for drug crimes. El Paso County blacks are a whopping seven times more apt than whites to be imprisoned for drugs, based on a national report by the Justice Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that wants to reform sentencing policies. Though El Paso County residents should be outraged, blacks in some parts of the country face prison for drugs at 10 times the rate of whites. [continues 630 words]
Ten members of an 11-seat pot panel were appointed this morning by Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, with the lone remaining seat open because the Denver district attorney's office declined to participate. The appointments fulfill a mandate created by the passage of Initiated Question 100 in November's Denver election. More than half -- 57 percent -- of Denver voters favored the initiative, making marijuana the city's lowest law-enforcement priority. "We commend Mayor Hickenlooper for appointing the Marijuana Policy Review Panel and taking a step toward a more rational marijuana policy in Denver," said Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER, a marijuana-reform group which spearheaded the ordinance. [continues 243 words]
A Colorado judge ruled Wednesday that police should return dozens of marijuana plants to a former Marine and 1991 Persian Gulf War veteran who is a licensed medical marijuana user. "It's great -- I need my stuff back," said Kevin Dickes, 39, a Denver-area construction worker who left the Marine Corps as a lance corporal in 1993. Aurora, Colo., police raided Dickes' home in April and seized plants growing in his basement. He was handcuffed, arrested and charged with a felony count of cultivating marijuana, which carries a maximum sentence of six years in prison. [continues 306 words]
EAGLE-COUNTY -- A culture of rampant drug and alcohol use has been thriving at local high schools for years, parents say, and now they're ready to clean up the valley. Simply put, drugs and alcohol have become the center of high school social life in the Eagle County. Those who abstain are often teased and pushed away from friends, and many students voluntarily isolate themselves from the drug- and booze-fueled parties that are commonplace on weekends. The drug culture has become accepted as normal among students, and the many student who don't like it are often afraid to take a stand, although they are desperate for change. [continues 785 words]
A random drug testing policy is being developed at Battle Mountain High School to bring down substance abuse problems being reported at the school. The policy is still a work in progress. The main idea though is that students involved in extra-curricular activities like sports would be subject to drug testing. With about 75 percent of the students Battle Mountain involved in extra curricular activities, a drug testing policy would effect a lot of students. The details, though, haven't been decided, and the details are pretty important to doing the testing right, principal Brian Hester said. [continues 360 words]
Mike Allen had tried to stop drinking before. And he'd succeeded for a few months at a time. But he always went back to the bottle. That was until he was arrested on a drug charge, served a short time in jail as part of a probation sentence and then started receiving acupuncture this spring while on probation. Allen said the acupuncture helped with the physical symptoms of withdrawal and supplemented the work he was doing through recovery groups and counseling. [continues 986 words]
CENTENNIAL - Charges were dropped today against a Desert Storm veteran who was arrested for growing 71 marijuana plants in his basement. Kevin Dickes, who has a medical marijuana card, faced up to six years in prison. He was scheduled to go to trial in Arapahoe County District Court in February. Dickes said he needed the marijuana to help him with the pain he has suffered daily since a grenade landed next to him in Kuwait when he served there as a Marine in 1991. He has no feeling below his right calf and suffers from chronic vascular disease. [continues 144 words]
Craig Elementary Students Raise Funds For Substance Abuse Prevention Program Craig -- When Austin Luker received a laptop from Jerry Hoberg, Substance Abuse Prevention Program president, he said he felt one emotion. Relief. During a period of two and a half weeks in late October, Luker sold nearly 300 tickets to a pancake breakfast, the prevention program's sole fundraiser. His goal: to sell more tickets than anyone else. "It's one of the goals I've wanted to reach for a few years," he said. "Finally reaching it is really a relief." [continues 487 words]
When psychologist David Brown talks about "teenage pharming," he makes it clear to his audience he's not talking about kids going to 4-H or FFA meetings. Brown, who is on the staff at Parkview Medical Center, brings his message to two or three groups a month and on Wednesday spoke to members of the Pueblo chapter of Mental Health America about organized abuse of over-the-counter and prescription drugs by young people. The message was timely following the death in October of 17-year-old South High School student Corey Suazo from a drug overdose linked to a pharmaceutical party. According to sources, the arrest warrants were issued recently for 19 adults and juveniles on drug-related charges with one arrest yet to be made. [continues 594 words]
Addy M. Hansen ("Time to sober up," Letters, Nov. 29) comes off, in my opinion, as a moral absolutist. I agree that addiction must be treated, and law enforcement is ill-equipped to do so. Last time I checked, there was no such thing as absolute morals. What may be moral to some is not to others; case in point being certain tribes of South Africa that teach children about sex, and sexuality, from the time they can walk. I do not have the right, nor does anyone else, to say what is or is not moral, and one of the major problems with our society is the belief of a few that their morals are the standard instead of the deviation. In a republic, these people would not be able to pass their laws and prohibit someone from drinking, taking a narcotic or whatever. Prohibition didn't work in the 1920s and it is failing today. Restore the republic and the "drug war" goes away. License the dealers and tax their sales and, well, you begin to get the picture. Dwayne Schultz Colorado Springs [end]
Medical marijuana is legal in Colorado, but where do you get it? This is a question that Mabel (not her real name), a 64-year-old silver-haired grandmother, deals with every day. Mabel suffers from debilitating arthritis and chronic back pain. When her conditions flare up, she is barely able to turn the pages of a children's book with her 4- and 2-year-old grandchildren sitting on her lap. After years of trying dozens of prescription medications, and screaming out in pain as she developed a tolerance to each of them, and vomiting up dozens of pills as her stomach, liver and kidneys were overtaxed, Mabel tried medical marijuana for the first time in her life at age 60. [continues 570 words]
People in Denver are more likely to go to prison for drug offenses than residents in almost all other urban areas of the country, according to a study made public today. About 147 of every 100,000 Denver residents served time for drugs in 2002, according to the study by the nonprofit Justice Policy Institute, which studies alternatives to imprisonment. The 2002 data was the most recent and complete available, the group said. That placed Denver 12th out of the 198 most populous counties nationwide - higher than New York, Los Angeles and Detroit. The highest were the counties that include Bakersfield, Calif.; Atlantic City, N.J.; and New Orleans. [continues 275 words]
Couple Says Law Requires Medical Marijuana Be Maintained It took 16 months, but a Fort Collins couple Monday finally retrieved the medical marijuana seized from their home in August 2006. But the battle is far from over. The cultivation and possession charges against James and Lisa Masters, medical marijuana patients and caregivers for other patients, were dropped in June, but it wasn't until late last month that Chief District Court Judge James Hiatt ruled the police had to return the property. [continues 400 words]
Monday may have been the first day in Colorado history that someone got their marijuana back from the police. Early Monday morning, flanked by attorneys, supporters and the media, Lisa and James Masters appeared at the Fort Collins Police Department to retrieve marijuana plants, growing equipment and other paraphernalia seized 16 month ago from what the Masterses say was a growing operation solely for medicinal marijuana. "This is historic," said Robert Corry, a lawyer for the couple. "It's a beautiful day for medical marijuana." [continues 439 words]
After a prolonged legal battle, a Fort Collins couple today finally retrieved the medical marijuana seized from their home in August 2006, but the plants were dead. The cultivation and possession charges against James and Lisa Masters, medical marijuana patients and caregivers for other patients, were dropped in June but it wasn't until late last month that a judge ruled that police had to return the property. James Masters said he was "very, very happy to see this come to fruition," but that he was sad to see the plants had not been maintained. [continues 104 words]
The father of the 10-year-old girl who was fatally shot in her Denver apartment has a MySpace.com profile that trumpets marijuana use and gang culture. A photo of the girl, Auralia Cisneros, is posted on the page of Leo "Mickey" Cisneros, her 29-year-old father, with the caption "Rest in peace my angel I love you." A pictures link on the page shows additional photos of Auralia and other family members. The wallpaper of the page is a black background with blue marijuana leaves and the name of a well-known gang in west Denver - displayed prominently on the page. [continues 233 words]
Crime Does Not Pay. In Fact It Costs Taxpayers Dearly. While incarcerating the bad guys keeps them off the streets so they can't do more crime, the cost of housing them is tremendous, and the bill keeps rising. What's driving much of the crime is the use of illegal drugs, for users need to steal to pay for their habit. Now the state's prison population is growing, and new and expanded prisons are being called for. Ari Zavaras, executive director of the Department of Corrections, addressed that need to the Legislature's Capital Development Committee, which prioritizes state construction needs other than highways. [continues 199 words]
James Masters quotes Abraham Lincoln - "Revolutions do not go backwards" - when speaking about the progress of the medical marijuana movement from inside the PVMC, otherwise known as Poudre Valley Medical Cannabis. The space is, in fact, Northern Colorado's first medical marijuana dispensary, and since opening its doors in October, James and his wife, Lisa, have sought to emancipate sufferers of cancer, HIV, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma by using cannabis to cope with and alleviate their illnesses. [continues 844 words]
Aspen Skiing Co. has changed its drug testing policy for employees who are injured on the job, who damage company equipment in an accident, or who are in a situation where a guest has been injured. Employees in those and other circumstances are no longer automatically required to take a mandatory drug test to determine if there are threshold levels of marijuana, cocaine, opium or barbiturates in their bloodstream. Instead, employees will only be tested if their supervisor, a supervisor or manager at a higher level, and someone from the human resources department all determine that a drug test is reasonable. [continues 704 words]
No doubt without intending to, a U.S. Justice Department report on the ambitious federal marijuana plant eradication program, documents that the campaign has not only failed to make much of a dent in the marijuana marketplace, it has had the perverse effect of driving producers to indoor sites, notably to suburban homes. In other words, if one of your neighbors has converted the place to an indoor marijuana plantation, guarded by somewhat unsavory-looking characters who look as if they might be packing heat and attracting a number of disreputable-looking hangers-on, you can thank the state and federal governments. It's your tax dollars at work; except that the drug war isn't working. [continues 199 words]
A Fort Collins couple and their lawyer plan to visit the Larimer County sheriff's office Wednesday in hopes of recovering 39 marijuana plants seized by narcotics officers during a raid at their home in August 2006. A Larimer County District Court Judge ruled Monday that authorities must return the plants and growing equipment taken from James and Lisa Masters. Their lawyer described them as medical marijuana providers for themselves and about 8 to 10 other people. Brian Vincente, lawyer for the couple, hopes authorities have taken care of the plants as provided by the state's medical marijuana law, which was approved by voters in 2000. [continues 361 words]
State Should Closely Monitor Those Who Assist Medical Pot Patients Denver District Judge Larry Naves made the right call when he recently ordered the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to stop enforcing a regulation that limited patients' ability to obtain medical marijuana. Naves overturned a 2004 health department policy that said any caregiver listed with the state's medical marijuana registry can provide pot to no more than five patients. We don't know if five is the right number - nor did the judge offer any guidance - but the department set that limit in secret with no public comment, and violated the state's laws that govern how regulations are developed. [continues 414 words]
(Re: "The people want pot," In Case You Missed It, Nov. 15.) No truer words are spoken when you say, "The people want pot," and Washington politics as usual is the reason why marijuana is the backbone of the drug war and medical marijuana is under siege. Drug issues are so easily jumbled in our drug policy, and we have so little meaningful debate. Myths about the world's No. 1 illicit drug trump science. Law enforcement claims "we do not make the laws," yet each time, as if on-cue, they are available to espouse many myths as drug experts in the witness process where government considers laws. The drug war is a sacred cow no one will talk about honestly. It is only when marijuana and harm-reduction issues result in congressmen losing elections will things change. It is for our children we should have a regulated marijuana market and keep it out in the open. Peter Christopher Hurdle Mills, N.C. [end]
Props to the Boulder Weekly! In the column In Case You Missed It, the headline summed up the whole pot debate in four words: the people want pot. What is difficult to understand about that? Why do police feel they need to puff and bluster with the old "we are following state law" or "the federal law" when in places like Denver the people have spoken? This country exists for and by "the people." There may be 3 branches of government but those 3 branches grow from a main trunk -- us, we, the people. "They" answer to "us." [continues 74 words]
A federal commission should make changes to crack-sentencing laws retroactive, freeing many who were jailed in the 1980s. Disproportionately harsh federal prison sentences for crack cocaine offenders is an injustice that has been smoldering for two decades. The U.S. Sentencing Commission, a presidentially appointed body that sets federal court policies and practices, recently changed those crack penalties so they are in keeping with punishments for other drugs. But the commission still is contemplating whether to make those changes retroactive so that 19,500 prisoners serving unfairly long sentences can petition to be released. Of them, 115 were sentenced in Colorado. [continues 476 words]
It sounds too good to be true. A patient walks into his doctor's office and admits he's been drinking too much or tells the doctor he wants to quit smoking. The doctor writes a prescription. The patient drinks less or throws away the cigarettes. Such a scenario is not likely in the near future, if ever, but researchers are beginning to tease out the brain chemistry of addiction -- or at least find drugs that allow them to tinker with the neurochemical machinery of substance abuse. [continues 957 words]
Policy Overturned That Set a 5-Patient Limit Per Provider Access to medical marijuana will be easier as a result of a ruling by a Denver judge. District Judge Larry Naves last week overturned a state health department policy that restricted providers of medical marijuana to five patients. The ruling endorses a settlement reached between the health department and attorneys for AIDS patient Damien LaGoy, who sued after his caregiver request was denied in May based on the five-patient rule. [continues 295 words]
Access to medical marijuana will be easier under a ruling by a Denver judge. Denver District Judge Larry Naves last week overturned a state health department policy that restricted providers of medical marijuana to five patients. Damien LaGoy, who uses marijuana to control nausea from AIDS wasting-syndrome and hepatitis C, sued the health department after his caregiver request was denied by the health department in May based on the five patient rule. The policy was adopted by the health department in a closed meeting in 2004. Naves overturned the policy, saying it violated the Colorado open meetings act and the administrative procedures act. "I feel safer already," LaGoy said. "Now I can get my medicine from a safe and responsible caregiver instead of taking my chances on the streets. [end]
Loveland resident Jeremy Chad Myers walked from a district courtroom Thursday with tears in his eyes and said he feels "as innocent as ever." Myers considers himself vindicated because 8th Judicial District prosecutors dropped all drug charges against him for what three reports show is a false accusation he was cooking and using methamphetamine in his home at the old sugar factory in Loveland. Colorado Bureau of Investigation tests on substances seized by the Larimer County Drug Task Force seized after a no-knock raid in September all came back "no controlled substances;" no amphetamine, no ephedrine, for which initial on-site screens tested positive. [continues 572 words]
In 2005, prompted by the pro-ganja SAFER organization, Denver potheads rejoiced as the city voted to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. The new measure allowed for Mile High residents over the age of 21 to legally possess under an ounce of weed. However, residents began to notice that marijuana busts weren't really subsiding after the new pot-friendly era began. Even though some people took their possession tickets to court and won, The Man was still seeking out hungry, glossy-eyed citizens, whose major crimes consisted of spilling bong water and cranking Dark Side of the Moon, and charging them under state and federal laws. So what's a stoner to do? [continues 111 words]
Dear Editor, As a Christian it's definitely time to stop caging responsible adult humans for using the relatively safe God-given plant cannabis (Denver Did It - Could Telluride Legalize Marijuana? Nov. 7, 2007) and one reason that doesn't get mentioned is because it is Biblically correct. Christ God Our Father, The Ecologician, indicates He created all the seed-bearing plants, saying they are all good, on literally the very first page. The only Biblical restriction placed on cannabis is that it is to be accepted with thankfulness (see 1 Timothy 4:1-5). What kind of people support persecuting, prohibiting and exterminating what God says is good? Truthfully, Stan White Dillon, Colo. [end]
Telluride, Colo. - As more and more families struggle with the impacts of methamphetamine addiction, finding even the simplest of support systems is a challenge. Just ask Richard Harding, an Olathe resident well-known for his interest in local politics and community service. Harding and his wife have joined a support group called "Kinship Families," designed to help those whose loved ones have become entangled in the web of meth addiction. Kinship Families is sponsored by the Mental Health Center in Montrose. [continues 729 words]
Hayley Jaqua has a big problem. Jaqua is a 25-year-old full-time student at Metropolitan State College of Denver and an anthropology major who also works part time at a trendy restaurant on the 16th Street Mall. In September, Jaqua was ticketed for possessing a small amount of marijuana. I've spoken to Jaqua only once, so I dare not vouch for the incorruptibility of her soul. But from what I can tell, we have a pleasant and bright person here - a woman whose only brush with the law before this incident was an improperly licensed dog in 2003. [continues 638 words]
Sometimes, I wonder if I've gone down the wrong path in life. Sure, I'm happily married, my family is in good health, I have a career that both fulfills and challenges me and, despite the strike by the Writers Guild of America, I've discovered an entire season of a complex and sexy, new HBO drama series on Comcast's On Demand service. Yet, notwithstanding the richness of my life, I still have moments when I kind of wish I were into drugs. [continues 792 words]
Telluride, Colo. - The city of Denver passed another marijuana law Tuesday. The city that already legalized pot told the city's cops to make marijuana possession their "lowest law-enforcement priority." Sound familiar? It should. In 2005, a similar measure narrowly failed in Telluride, 332-308. But the success of anti-prohibition laws in Denver, Seattle, Oakland and other cities has encouraged one local activist to consider giving it another shot here. "It's worked great in a lot of cities," says Ernest Eich, who supported and promoted the 2005 initiative. "Is Telluride really less progressive than Denver?" [continues 597 words]
DENVER - A Prohibition Party campaign song says, "I'd rather be right than president." By that score, Earl Dodge was right six times. Dodge, an activist in the Prohibition Party since 1952, ran for president in every campaign since 1984. He died Wednesday, the same week his family received campaign buttons for his seventh bid for the White House in 2008. He was 74. Dodge lived in the Denver suburb of Lakewood. He collapsed and died at Denver International Airport at the start of a business trip, said his daughter, Faith Nelson. The cause of death had not been determined. [continues 326 words]
But Hick Promises to Form Panel After 'Symbolic' Initiative Once again on a ballot measure, Mason Tvert pushed for allowing marijuana possession in Denver, and once again, he got it by a whopping vote total. And once again, the vote likely means nothing legally. Ballot Question 100 sought to make possession of less than one ounce of marijuana the "lowest law enforcement priority." This comes on the heels of a 2005 ballot measure pushed by Tvert and his group, Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, or SAFER, that legalized possession of less than an ounce of marijuana within the city of Denver. [continues 268 words]
Denver Initiated Question 100 (Marijuana law enforcement): * Yes 55.5% No 44.5% More than half of Denver voters favored an initiative making marijuana the city's lowest law enforcement priority. With just a handful of ballots left to count, the measure had captured 55 percent of the vote. The result means the mayor must appoint a panel to monitor how marijuana cases are handled by the police and city prosecutors and issue a report. "It appears as if it is going to pass, and it shows there is a wealth of support around the city," said Mason Tvert, campaign director of Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation, the group behind the initiative. [continues 227 words]
Plan Would Make It Lowest Priority for Denver Police Denver voters appeared to be approving an initiative to make adult possession of less than an ounce of pot the "lowest law enforcement priority" in the city. Initiated Question 100 was put on the ballot by SAFER, the same group behind a successful 2005 initiative that made the possession of small amounts of marijuana legal in Denver. Votes in favor led by a 5-to-4 ratio in incomplete counting. "The voters of Denver have made it very clear that they do not think our city's limited law enforcement resources should be used to arrest and prosecute simply for possessing small amounts of marijuana," said Mason Tvert, the executive director of SAFER or Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation. [continues 249 words]
DENVER -- In 2005, voters here approved a measure making it legal for an adult to possess an ounce or less of marijuana. But arrests for misdemeanor marijuana possession have risen since then. Now, voters are to decide on a ballot measure that would make possession of small amounts of marijuana the lowest enforcement priority for the police. "People didn't want anyone arrested," said Mason Tvert, executive director of Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, a pro-marijuana group that sponsored the 2005 measure and is sponsoring the latest one. "That's what they voted on." [continues 456 words]
Re: "Vote 'no' on latest pot push," Oct. 15 editorial. The "vote 'no' on pot" editorial was sanctimonious grand-standing on the part of The Denver Post. To actually state with assumed authority that the efforts by SAFER are "merely an effort to enable marijuana users to get high on something besides alcohol" serves to disguise a social justice problem that dwarfs The Denver Post's concern. That problem is the arrest and conviction records of those who commit no law-breaking behavior other than to want to get high. If getting "high" is the concern of the editors, then why aren't they proselytizing for making alcohol illegal? [continues 88 words]
Re: "Marijuana initiative short on . uh, um, like, you know," Oct. 20 Bob Ewegen column. Bob Ewegen's column about Denver's marijuana initiative makes a number of erroneous statements, some of which he unfortunately attributes to the Marijuana Policy Project. First, it simply is not true that "heavy marijuana use causes a condition I'll call 'cat litter for brains.' " A University of California analysis of the relevant research, published in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, reported that even long-term, regular marijuana use causes no substantial harm to neurocognitive functioning. [continues 145 words]
A retired Denver police lieutenant stood alongside marijuana activists Wednesday to endorse a Nov. 6 initiative that would make adult possession of less than an ounce of pot the "lowest law enforcement priority" in the city. Lt. Tony Ryan said he's not advocating drug use but that the city's resources would be better spent fighting violence and property crime, rather than busting people for possessing small amounts of marijuana. "I was a street officer most of my career through the ranks and homicides, rapes, assaults, domestic violence, alcohol was involved in every one of them," he said. [continues 146 words]
A small amount of marijuana and drug paraphernalia was returned by Jefferson County authorities today to a medical marijuana caregiver who was issued a summons at Mount Falcon Park earlier this year. Anton Marquez, 29, walked out of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department this afternoon with the seized items, ending what Brian Vicente, executive director of Sensible Colorado, said was an ordeal of six months for Marquez. Marquez provides marijuana to his father and brother, who suffer from epilepsy. He also takes it himself, he said, because of a brain tumor. [continues 377 words]
Let me see if I have this right. Denver voters are being asked to cut off our index finger on the theory that such a mutilation is a darn sight better than cutting off our thumb? That seems to be the logic behind Initiated Question 100 on the current municipal mail-in ballot. Crafted by our old friends "SAFER," the measure directs the local constabulary to put enforcement of state or federal statutes against marijuana as their "lowest law-enforcement priority." [continues 598 words]
ASPEN - Visit the John Denver Sanctuary and you'd think the iconic singer never smoked pot. John Denver will live forever in the minds and hearts of Coloradoans, but the lyrics etched in stone obelisks at the riverside park have been cleaned of scandalous references. In the song "Poems, Prayers and Promises," the verse about how Denver has "known my lady's pleasures" is missing. And instead of reading, "my friends and my old lady sit and pass a pipe around" as in the original, the stone reads, "my friends and my old lady sit and watch the sun go down." [continues 363 words]
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