Author: Chris Osher
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Cannabis overhaul introduced in Colorado Senate
Colorado lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a measure that, if approved, would place a ballot proposal before voters this fall that contains changes backers say would improve consumer safety and overhauls how the marijuana industry is taxed. The proposed ballot initiative would fund a testing program, in which regulators would randomly buy marijuana products from dispensaries and test them for…
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Robin Niceta released on probation
A former Arapahoe County child-protective worker has been released on parole from her four-year prison sentence related to her conviction of making up a report of child abuse against an Aurora city councilwoman. Robin Niceta, 43, was assigned an out-of-state parolee status after spending a year and a half in prison, according to the Colorado Department of Corrections website. She was arrested and accused…
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Senate votes to ban intoxicating hemp products nationally
Legislation passed by the U.S. Senate late Monday will ban nearly all hemp-derived THC products, despite Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul’s attempts to block the hemp-ban language from a part of the GOP-proposed deal designed to end the government shutdown. Eight Democrats joined with GOP senators to support a Republican-led stopgap funding deal Sunday, which includes a continuing resolution…
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El Paso County settles developer’s wrongful prosecution lawsuit for $3 million
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save El Paso County has reached a $3 million settlement with the developer Ray Marshall to resolve his federal lawsuit alleging a former investigator for the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office fabricated evidence and withheld evidence from his criminal defense lawyers. The lawsuit, which sought damages…
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Controversial parental evaluator faces suspension and warnings
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado court administrators suspended parental evaluator Stephanie Norris from accepting court appointments after finding Norris failed to acknowledge an issue was beyond her competency when a judge appointed her to make custody recommendations in a…
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Colorado Attorney General shuts down high potency THC hemp seller
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Monday announced his office has shut down a Greeley firm that was selling over the internet high potency THC intoxicating products derived from hemp. Weiser’s office last week reached a settlement with Gee Distributors, doing business as CBDDY, resolving…
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Former Colorado parental evaluator’s deception costs her 4-year prison sentence
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Judges throughout Colorado once relied on Shannon McShane’s custody recommendations, but the lies she made to those judge as a court-appointed parental evaluator and her retaliation against a parent who exposed her deceptions landed her a sentence of four years in prison. Denver District Court…
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Terror on Pearl Street: How the attack in Boulder unfolded
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Mohamed Sabry Soliman told the female detective that he left in solitude that Sunday to commit his attack, leaving behind an iPhone hidden in a desk drawer with messages to his wife and their five children, and a journal, in their Colorado Springs area duplex.…
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Colorado judge dismisses lawsuit over marijuana testing rules
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Denver District Court judge has dismissed a marijuana cultivator’s lawsuit requesting that she force Colorado to overhaul its testing rules. In a ruling issued on Thursday, District Court Judge Jill Dorancy found that the lawsuit from the cultivator, Mammoth Farms, “attempts to circumvent the…
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Colorado cannabis cultivator files lawsuit against state regulators, citing public health and black market concerns
A Colorado cannabis cultivator has filed a lawsuit against the state’s marijuana regulators, with a spotlight on what it describes as massive oversights in the state’s testing regime that the cultivator claims endanger public health and allows for the illegal diversion of cannabis into black markets. The lawsuit, filed earlier this week in Denver District…