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Daily Digest: Colorado ruling a blow to medical marijuana use, and 9 other stories

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Employers’ zero-tolerance drug policies trump Colorado’s medical marijuana laws, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday. With the ruling, which was a blow to some medical marijuana patients and a sigh of relief to employers, on a gray area of the law.

Child sex assault charges leveled in Colorado last year against the brother of Rachel Dolezal, the embattled former Spokane, Wash., NAACP chapter president, — and now global — story.

Meanwhile, , Dolezal said she “takes exception” to the contention that she tried to deceive people, adding that she feels some of the discussion about her has been “viciously inhumane.”

The psychiatrist who declined to place James Holmes on a mental health hold prior to the Aurora theater shooting is expected to speak publicly about the decision , when she is called to testify in Holmes’ murder trial.

Read our , see and watch a of the proceedings.

Colorado water rights owners are forging a way out of the state’s ingrained “Use It Or Lose It” rule that penalizes those who divert less than their full allotment from rivers — as shortages grip the West.

A $125 million road reconstruction project in Weld County will help ease some of the dangers fueled by rapid oil and gas development, .

The Nuggets have a .

Colorado’s Public Employees’ Retirement Association released a study Monday saying the $3.5 billion in annual PERA retirement distributions impact the state economy to the tune of a whopping $5.2 billion. Critics, however, .

State regulators on Monday unveiled data showing that Coloradans next year but also will, on average, pay more for premiums.

On social media and red carpets, from New York to China, hairy underarms are .

A shark above the elbow late Sunday afternoon in the waters off the beach town of Oak Island, N.C., only about 90 minutes after a 12-year-old girl also lost an arm in a similar attack.

Meanwhile, the town where the attacks happened .

Jesse Paul: 303-954-1733, jpaul@denverpost.com or twitter.com/JesseAPaul

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