Note: Originally published in the May 2017 Washington Park Profile. By now, almost everyone in South Denver and many others from around the world have heard the news: The International Church of Cannabis at 400 S. Logan St., located in the former Mt. Calvary Apostolic Church, opened April 20, the unofficial holiday for cannabis fans. But what is its exact purpose? The church or venue—what it is depends on who you’re talking to—staged a tiered opening on April 20 with an open-

Between Hills That Were and Hills That Are I can’t remember the boy Who passed through the windshield. Never before, nor after—acquaintance At a party, arguing with some other stranger, Shoved out the door they then both were gone. Walking wild, someone recalled, afterwards, Willing his scored and blind body forward. Which is more dreaded : the gruesome Thing that is, or a thing so innocent, soon Become gruesome? Some few weeks The mark went road to field— Tread and blood, bl

Note: Originally published in the May 2016 issue of the Washington Park Profile. As ever, debate on the presence and regulation of marijuana in Colorado society smolders on. Within Colorado, complaints have arisen over odors, public consumption and intoxication, numbers of retailers per a given area, etc. And, there is tension of course between our state and others which have not legalized the gange: read up on Nebraska’s, Kansas’ and Wyoming’s fight against cross-border traf