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Colorado records modest decline in drug overdose deaths — the first decline since 2012
The state recorded 349 deaths from prescription painkillers, dropping by 24 from the previous year
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Did the Colorado Supreme Court just throw the state’s marijuana-legalization regime into question? The chief justice seems to think so.
By John Ingold Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published
With Denver’s vote on magic mushrooms, will Colorado anchor a psychedelic medicine revolution?
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Q&A: Jason Dunn, Colorado’s new top federal prosecutor, on marijuana, battling the opioid epidemic and how to stop violent crime
By Jesse Paul Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado’s new U.S. attorney wants law enforcement to treat overdose deaths as homicides as he focuses on opioids
By Jesse Paul Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published
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Six years after marijuana legalization, Colorado still hasn’t figured out what to do with pot-sniffing dogs
The Colorado Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday about whether an alert from a dog trained to smell marijuana creates probable cause for a search
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The opioid crisis is breaking hearts in Colorado — and that’s forcing doctors to make tough choices
As the U.S., Colorado work to address the opioid epidemic, hospitals are seeing a major increase in deadly heart infections caused by injection drug use. That’s left doctors facing difficult moral and ethical decisions.
