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Early studies suggest psilocybin can help people with PTSD. But the VA doesn’t allow it. Will veterans be left behind?

The first day aboard his Navy hospital ship during the Vietnam War, then 19-year-old David Lyons was told to take items from a trough wrapped in butcher paper and throw them into the incinerator. “I ...
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Revise, delay or implement? The standoff over Colorado’s AI discrimination law

Nine months: that’s all the time left before companies have to start complying with Colorado’s first-in-the-nation anti-discrimination law for AI systems, unless policymakers act. Business and ...
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Thousands gather across Colorado for ‘No Kings’ protests against Trump administration

In one of the largest demonstrations since the social justice protests of 2020 following the death of George Floyd, thousands of protesters gathered at sites across Colorado Saturday to speak out ...
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Denver Public Schools’ controversial reform strategy led to higher test scores and graduation rates, but not without costs

Denver’s controversial decade-long embrace of school choice and accountability led to some of the largest academic improvements in education research history, according to a University of Colorado ...
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Stressed out, busy moms say microdosing mushrooms makes life easier and brighter. Researchers caution that they are ‘experimenting on themselves’

Heather Jackson calls it the mother’s wall and it usually comes on very suddenly. She can’t make regular decisions, like what to cook for dinner. She realizes the kitchen trash is full and starts to ...
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The mysteries of Southern Colorado’s Indigenous rock art: Why it’s there, who made it and what threatens it

Images carved or painted on rock walls in southeastern Colorado by ancient Indigenous peoples often evoke wonder about who made them and why. These petroglyphs and pictographs carved and painted on ...
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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Blucifer, The Demon Horse Of DIA

It’s hard to ignore the big blue horse that rears in a display of power and rebellion at Denver International Airport. The 32-foot-tall fiberglass sculpture towers over Peña Boulevard, its eyes ...
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Political and religious influences amplify in some Colorado school board races, as focus shifts away from students

Jessica Capsel fills her days milking dairy goats, feeding the cows hay, volunteering at her children’s schools and listening to school board meetings. That last one is not something she particularly ...
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Disease die-offs continue to ravage bighorn sheep. Advocates say feds left them ‘high and dry’ on the issue

The Pikeview Quarry, barely outside of the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages of the Mountain Shadows subdivision, seemed like an odd place to find one of Colorado’s most intrepid species. Bulldozers, ...
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As Trump administration cuts funding, lays off USDA staff, Colorado farmers and ranchers feel the hit

In rural Colorado, U.S. Department of Agriculture funding has long provided not only a safety net against disasters and shifting commodity prices but also the seed money for projects ranging from ...
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‘Greywater’ Could Help Solve Colorado’s Water Problems. Why Aren’t We All Using It?

Your shower, sink and laundry machine account for more than half of indoor water use. Since the wastewater that circles the drain doesn’t come from the toilet, it’s safe to reuse on things like your ...
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Judges probe arguments over Tina Peters’ appeal

A panel of Colorado appellate judges scrutinized arguments as to what claims former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters should have been able to make at trial in 2024, and whether or not a judge’s strong ...