Posts tagged with Healthy Kids Colorado Survey

Last Updated: Jun. 12, 2018 · 7:40 p.m.

Marijuana at Verde Natural's grow facility. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Children’s Hospital Colorado sees four times more young people using marijuana since 2009

New research from a pediatrician at Children's Hospital Colorado casts doubt on whether more teens and young adults in the state are using marijuana.

Kids toss footballs during the Denver Broncos Training Camp. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Colorado Senate restores funding to Healthy Kids Colorado Survey, which tracks drug use and other issues

Right now, the state can use the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey to track how marijuana legalization is changing students' use of the drug.

A teacher at DSST Cole High in Denver greets her students on the first day of class. ( Photo by Nicholas Garcia )

Colorado poised to slash funding for controversial student health survey

Questions about the survey’s value have moved to the state legislature — and could mean a loss of $745,000 in state funding for the biennial data collection effort.

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An artist's rendition of the Lucy spacecraft. (Courtesy of the Southwest Research Institute)

NASA selects Lockheed Martin and the Southwest Research Institute for next Discovery Program mission

NASA has released the details of its upcoming Discovery Program missions — two asteroid reconnaissance missions intended to launch in 2021 and 2023.

An Atlas V rocket ready for launch at Cape Canaveral. (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Flickr)

Where to watch the OSIRIS-REx launch tonight

If you can't make it to Florida, NASA will be hosting a live feed of the mission launch that you can stream at home.

Inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians and engineers rotate the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft for testing. (NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis)

OSIRIS-REx briefing tidbits: Ruling out “Andromeda Strain,” “Armageddon”

Together with United Launch Alliance and a host of national and international collaborators, NASA will send the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx into space Thursday.

OSIRIS-REx launch nears, rocket has moved to its launch site

Seven health stats about Denver teenagers

They're less likely to be bullied but more likely to go hungry.

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