A Colorado woman was arrested by the Boulder County Drug Task Force this month after she was caught selling marijuana to a confidential police informant. The woman, who had owned a Colorado medical marijuana dispensary, unfortunately chose the wrong method of...
Just when you thought the drunk driving campaign was over, Colorado police have decided to begin again, sobriety checkpoints and all.When the summer DUI campaign, 100 Days of Heat*, ended in September, another campaign started. The increased drunk driving enforcement...
In May, the Colorado Senate voted against HB1261. That bill would have created a THC limit for drivers; specifically, drivers with more than five nanograms (ng/mL) of THC in their blood could have been accused of driving under the influence of drugs (DUID). Now, a...
If a person in Colorado is convicted of driving under the influence (DUI), he or she faces the potential of up to six months in jail - just for a first offense; subsequent offenses raise possible jail sentences as high as one year. However, if that same person was...
As hot weather pummels Colorado, the Colorado State Patrol and statewide law enforcement agencies continue to add their own heat. As we discussed in the last blog posting, the summer-long 100 Days of Heat is an intensive crackdown on drunk driving throughout the...
Colorado drivers are taking the heat this summer as part of the Colorado Department of Transportation's statewide drunk driving campaign, Checkpoint Colorado - 100 Days of Heat. The campaign runs from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend. The goal? To arrest...
Colorado drivers who want to avoid a charge of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) have an ally in a smartphone app that estimates blood alcohol content (BAC).The Colorado Department of Transportation created the free "R-U-Buzzed" app to provide people who drink a...
Voters in Grand Junction and Castle Rock, Colorado, have put an abrupt stop to medical marijuana dispensaries within city limits. In early April, 57 percent of voters in Grand Junction and more than 70 percent of voters in Castle Rock chose to ban the dispensaries,...
Accompanying Driving While Under the Influence (DWI/DUI) of alcohol laws in every state are prohibitions against driving while under the influence of a drug, which necessarily includes marijuana. While few would dispute laws that ban impaired driving while under the...
A Colorado teenager with a rare neurological disease that causes him to have seizures was prescribed marijuana lozenges to control them. His condition is known as diaphragmatic and axial myoclonus. Colorado is one of 15 states that allows medical marijuana use for...