Denver's New Media Voice Loves to Hate CannabisPosted by On

Denver has a new voice offering old takes on pot.

Before the Denver Gazette launched on September 14, we anticipated that the digital news source, backed by billionaire conservative Phil Anschutz, would continue the streak of weed-bashing exhibited by Anschutz’s Colorado Springs Gazette.

The Gazette’s reputation of hating the plant was earned through years of questionable editorial decisions, dating back to a 2015 series of articles co-authored by Christine Tatum, the wife of Dr. Christian Thurstone, one of Colorado’s most prominent physicians to oppose recreational pot legalization. (The series disclosed Tatum’s relationship with Thurstone, but didn’t point out that she herself was a longtime opponent of marijuana who once suggested that the Boston Marathon bombing and Columbine High School killings were both linked to marijuana use.)

Since then, the Colorado Springs Gazette has continued to be the state’s most prominent anti-marijuana media voice.

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