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Dustin Glatz with assets from Shutterstock.com During an Oct. 13, 2020 City Council meeting, Zac Short, a former combat medic, entered into the public record his story about a little girl in Afghanistan, covered in third-degree burns, who he was unable to save. That incident haunted Short, who spent years trying in-and out-patient therapy and a variety of different pharmaceuticals to treat his post-traumatic stress disorder. Short finally found relief from his PTSD symptoms with psilocybin mushrooms, a substance that has been decriminalized in Denver and five o...

As it turns out, the feds weren't the only ones on to Milner. According to a Denver Police Department document obtained by Westword, the DPD had been tracking him since February 2019, after the department received a report from a tipster. The DPD document, essentially a summary of an investigation, reveals that on February 2, 2019, officers with the DPD Vice Unit received a packet through the mail that contained a note stating that someone named "Kole Milner" was growing psychedelic mushrooms in his apartment. The packet also included "photos of the grow at various stages," and pointed out ...

, created a trail of breadcrumbs for Drug Enforcement Administration agents, who were able to identify Milner through the pieces. In September 2019, DEA agents raided Milner's south Denver apartment and walked out with 906 live psychedelic mushrooms and 291.6 grams of dried psychedelic mushrooms. The raid took place four months after a slim majority of Denver voters approved decriminalizing the personal possession, use and growth of psychedelic mushrooms. The ballot measure did not decriminalize dealing mushrooms, nor did it bind federal law enforcement authorities in any way. Milner was som...

Although a Denver man has been pushing for probation after pleading guilty to dealing psychedelic mushrooms, federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Kole Milner to at least some prison time owing to the "aggravated" nature of the crime. "The defendant did not just produce and sell psilocybin mushrooms; he did it while openly thumbing his nose to federal law, wielding this as a point of pride to gain publicity and notoriety for his brand. This conduct warrants a sentence of imprisonment," federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado argued in a J...

Westword published more than a thousand news stories in 2020, covering everything from pit bulls and bitcoin companies to crime and COVID, COVID, COVID. Here are the ten that attracted the most readership...and, in one case, the largest load of nasty comments ever: The tragedy that befell Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after a torturous August 2019 encounter with Aurora police officers, didn't receive widespread national attention...until the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police in May. As people across the country learned about the McClain case, a chan...