Both Pitkin and Summit County are finally getting around to making laws governing medical marijuana shops.

This move comes more than two years after the first medical marijuana centers opened in the counties.

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Down, boy!

It's the stuff of Saturday-morning cartoons and "The Far Side:" a hapless postal carrier being chased around the neighborhood by the family dog. But the vicious attack on a Denver postal carrier on Monday demonstrated that mail carriers face real danger even on their regular routes. In fact, Denver ranks number eighth in the U.S. for dog attacks on postal carriers, tied with Sacremento, California, with 35 attacks each.

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Mike Coffman.

First, he said he "misspoke" when he said that Barack Obama -- the President of the United States -- was "not an American." Then he tried to explain away the comment as "boneheaded."

And Congressman Mike Coffman -- usually a sensible public servant -- continued to act bone-, as well as bull-, headed all week.

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Kal Penn.

A few years after Harold and Kumar visited White Castle -- but before they escaped from Guantanamo Bay -- Kumar Patel's real-life alter ego, Kal Penn, served a two-year-stint as the associate director of the White House's Office of Public Engagement. In 2008, the House and 24 star campaigned in 26 states for Barack Obama, and Penn followed the President into the big building after that work paid off. Today, he's making the rounds again: Penn stopped by the Organizing For America Colorado Youth Summit to encourage youth to vote (for Obama).

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John Elway.

Denver blog posts are not related to Rod Blagojevich.

Mile High Report fan poster metalman5050's post questioning John Elway's claim that the team doesn't have a Plan B in case Peyton Manning is hurt has generated an amazing 380 comments. Good reading.

The Colorado Independent's Scot Kersgaard on a poll showing marijuana legalization leading among respondents by a 56-36 percent margin.

Mile High Mamas' Julie Poppen on how to turn kids' summer boredom into blossoming brains. Do those fit in a planter?

John stings, or undercover operations where a cop -- usually a female cop -- poses as a prostitute to catch men willing to pay for sex, are more rare than stings in which the roles are reversed. This week, the Denver police announced the arrests of 29 people as the result of two john stings. A recent study on prostitution enforcement in Denver sheds light on city cops' attitudes toward johns -- and how offenders are usually punished.

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4/20 at CU 2012.

After a long delay, CU-Boulder has finally released the figures about how much it spent to shrink the annual 4/20 event on campus. The administration doled out $124,561.34, while student government spent $154,236.18. CU spokesman Bronson Hilliard thinks those numbers should be considered separately, rather than as a combined $278,797.52. But however the digits are viewed, he sees the sum as money well spent.

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Greg Moore.

Last month, we shared word that the Denver Post planned to lay off two-thirds of its copy editors -- a number estimated by sources as sixteen. Turns out that was a bit high: Only eleven are exiting, with a severance package as a parting gift, because several staffers from other departments, including columnist Tina Griego, have taken the same deal. But the copy desk is already becoming a thing of the past. Editor Greg Moore explains the new system.

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Mike Coffman.

Our post about Rachel Maddow's takedown of Mike Coffman over his recent birther comments spurred lots of vituperative debate in the comments section.

Here's the view of a reader who feels that laughing off Coffman's comments or dismissing him as a fringe character are the wrong tactics.

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Update: In a May 1 post seen below in its entirety, attorney Sean McAllister told us that three CU-Boulder students busted for trespassing on the closed Norlin Quad during the university's unprecedented attempt to shrink the annual 4/20 event would fight their citations on First Amendment grounds. Yesterday, they took the first step by pleading not guilty to the charges against them, beginning a challenge McAllister says has important implications.

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The featured players in a Boulder "Make My Day" shooting could hardly be more unlikely: Zoey Ripple, CU student and ultra-perky food blogger, and the pair of Timothy Justice and Doreen Orion, whose saga of traveling the country for a year in a "glorified tin can" is told in the book Queen of the Road.

Justice won't be charged. But Ripple, who was ultra-drunk at the time of the incident, isn't out of the woods yet.

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Big posters below.

The school year's ending for lotsa students -- and so is our salute to bizarre classroom posters from the '70s. Our first batch of rare finds featured captions, while our second and third groupings didn't, so we came up with our own.

Ditto in regard to our fourth showcase of these alternately beautiful and strange images -- the final ones in our collection. Enjoy them one last time.

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Medical marijuana caregiver Josh Jones was recently acquitted after not one but two trips to court in relation to what law enforcers counted as 140 plants -- a figure Jones's attorney, Rob Corry, questions.

However, Corry has no doubt the prosecution of his client was an enormous waste of taxpayer dollars -- one that, by his estimate, exceeded $100,000.

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Parking at Smart meters can be stupid. After encountering two dumb problems in the space of a few hours downtown, we asked people to submit their most stupid parking story -- for the chance of winning a $50 Smart card to the city's meters. But anyone looking for parking on 14th Street will soon get a prize.

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Yesterday, we recapped how Rachel Maddow had made Mike Coffman a national laughingstock over recent birther comments and his bizarre interview with 9News' Kyle Clark, when he said he stood by his statement that he misspoke and he apologized five times in a row. Now, plenty of Maddow's MSNBC colleagues are joining the party, turning Coffman into a symbol of birtherism.

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Originally in Five Points on Welton Street, the Silver Lizard preemptively moved to its current location last January because of its proximity to a school. Though the move undid all the staff's work on Welton, it seems to have worked out for the best, and the shop is making itself at home in a new location.

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Magalie Lerman.

Editor's note: This is the latest profile in Kelsey Whipple's ongoing series highlighting local political activists.

The first time Magalie Lerman knew she had a drug problem was not the first time she overdosed. Nor did she realize the second time. Today, Lerman is two and a half years sober and the co-director of Prax(us), an anti-human trafficking nonprofit that works frequently with homeless youth, much like the organizations that helped her intermittently throughout the previous years.

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Leslie Hansen.

This week's feature, "Sucker Punch," traces how an assault at a heavy metal concert turned into a habitual criminal prosecution in Arapahoe County, with one of the defendants facing a mountain of time while the other got probation. In the three-way race for district attorney in the 18th Judicial District, the current habitual criminal policy in the district has become an issue of sharp contention -- even between the two Republican candidates vying in next month's primary.

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Denver blog posts are a mile high.

Denver Frank: Let's all sing "The IKEA Song!"

The Colorado Independent's Scot Kersgaard offers a progressive Colorado scoreboard for the recently wrapped legislative session.

The Ralphie Report's Jon Woods on the transfer of Shannon Sharpe. No, not that Shannon Sharpe.

Hector Paez.

Update below: In October 2010, Denver Policeman Hector Paez was booked on a sexual assault charge for allegedly coercing a woman to perform oral sex on him to avoid going to jail. Last September, a mistrial was declared in his case, which is slated for this winter. But his accuser isn't waiting until then: She's filed a civil suit and is on a media blitz to tell her side of the story.

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