Caprice Lawless peruses the aisles at the Sister Carmen Community Center and food bank near her home in Louisville. As she draws closer to the produce section, she sees a heap of squash which a volunteer says will not count against her bi-monthly allowance. She heaves one into her shopping cart, just as another volunteer plops down bins of fresh, tiny Brussels sprouts.

April 20, the universally recognized “stoner holiday,” hit differently for Harold Sims this year. That day, the Denver-based chef made his world television debut, on Netflix. He was looking forward to finally letting friends and family in on the secret he’d kept for a whole year. Sims was on Netflix’s Cooked With Cannabis, a gourmet cooking competition infused with weed.

It’s the idea that white Americans should pay a moral debt to black Americans to compensate for slavery, Jim Crow and institutionalized racism. Reparations has been a concept debated as far back as emancipation. But for some Denver women, it’s not a debate — it’s an obligation. In late 2018, the Denver-based nonprofit Soul2Soul Sisters received a whopping $200,000 anonymous donation.

Tucked away on a lot on the edge of RiNo between a brewery and a commuter rail station is a thriving village for Denver’s chronically homeless. The weather isn’t cooperating on this day, but that isn’t putting a damper on the potluck at the Beloved Community Village. It’s an anniversary of sorts.

Treating minors with medical marijuana has been legal in Colorado for as long as medical marijuana itself has -- nearly two decades. In 2016, lawmakers even allowed caregivers to administer medical marijuana to minors on school grounds. But what may be a lawful alternative to traditional medicine to one parent is a dangerous drug to another, with some even considering medical marijuana use among youth to be tantamount to child abuse.

For most, Bishop Castle in Rye, Colorado, is a quirky roadside attraction. For others, it’s the backdrop for cherished memories like marriage proposals or weddings. For the Bishop family, it’s a bit harder to define. Not quite a family business, definitely a legacy of some kind. The oddball creation of family patriarch Jim Bishop doesn’t come close to eclipsing the children in their parents’ eyes, but it’s always been large enough to occupy a good chunk of a lifetime in pursuit of an ambitious — if not unconventional — dream.

Marijuana may be a multi-billion dollar industry in Colorado, but cannabis is still illegal federally — so any job in the industry can be considered trafficking in a controlled substance. Normally, this hasn’t been a tricky distinction for the industry’s state-licensed employees, except by one standard.

Dockless scooters are back on the streets in Denver after they were briefly banned. Cities around the country have been trying to catch up with regulating the new trend in micro-mobility. Colorado Public Radio's Ann Marie Awad (@AnnAwad) has the latest.

Two reverends decided that they wanted to pursue social justice and black liberation based on their Christian roots. So the two women decided to go outside the church and founded a social justice organization called Soul2Soul Sisters. As Ann Marie Awad (@AnnAwad) of Colorado Public Radio reports, the group's anti-racism programs are drawing large crowds.

Westwood is first in the city in a lot of things. It has the largest concentration of renters in Denver, the largest population of children and has a relatively high rate of COVID-19 infections. My partner and I moved to the neighborhood in December, and shortly thereafter joined up as members of the Westwood Food Cooperative.

Helen Webster wanted to be involved in the school district in her small town of Kremmling, Colo. "I just felt bad that they weren't going to have anyone run up here," she says. So the retired teacher decided to run for a seat on the West Grand County school board. A current board member invited her to a meeting so she could get a sense of the workload.

While the word "audit" all by itself doesn't sound very fun, for the Colorado Secretary of State it's absolutely celebratory. Following the 2017 off-year election, the state is performing a first-in-the-nation risk-limiting audit of the statewide results. "We're here to celebrate the fact that we've finally reached this milestone in our nation," Secretary of State Wayne Williams said.

After working countless hours in the marijuana industry, the time finally came for Taylor Rosean to start his own business. When he and his friends put their heads together, the first thing that came to mind were video games. Specifically a marijuana vape bar paired with an arcade. Laughing over coffee, Rosean says that it goes without saying they're "going to have Pacman."

Sher Mizer fled his native Bhutan in 1990, when he was just 13. Mizer is an ethnic Nepali - known in Bhutan as Lhotshampa - a group whose citizenship was stripped by the government. Now 37 and about to swear an oath of U.S. citizenship in Denver, Colorado, it will mark the first time he’s held citizenship in any country since he was a boy.

Colorado's coal country is experiencing the same slump that is gripping the heart of more traditional mining locales, like Wyoming or West Virginia. "We see the trains and we hear the trains, and they used to be often. Daily," says Darci Mohr, the superintendent for South Routt County School District.

Erin Finnell stands up in front of the class and calls on a student. “I’m just going with my boyfriend to the movies and we’re just going to movie hop,” CJ says. CJ talks a lot about her boyfriend in class, which isn't unusual for a high schooler. Except CJ isn’t a a typical student. She isn’t even real.