Update: Here are items about all 33 of the shops licensed by the City of Denver as of this writing, complete with photos, links and excerpts from those businesses critiqued by marijuana reviewer William Breathes. They're followed by the rest of this original post:
Number 33: Colorado Alternative Medicine (CAM)2394 South Broadway Denver, CO 80210
An excerpt from William Breathes's September 2012 review: "For years, Colorado Alternative Medicine has been known as the place to pick up some of the state's best-grown meds. By December 2010, when I first visited the tiny South Broadway duplex, even growers were known to shop there between harvests. And based on my latest visit, little has changed."
Number 32: Pink House Mile High2008 North Federal Boulevard Denver, CO 80211
An excerpt from Wax Jones's July 2013 post "Marijuana trimming isn't just an illegal trade anymore:" "When you first walk in to Megatron, the nickname for Pink House's grow facility, the beautiful scent of sativas and indicas can be a bit overwhelming. There are hundreds of small plants perched beneath flourescent lights throughout the hallways and thousands of plants spread out between four different rooms. Every day, the grow house goes through the same repetitive schedule: shuffle hundreds of plants from vegetative rooms to flowering rooms, water and fertilize plants, prune and check flowering rooms, harvest what is ready and send things to the trimmers."
Number 31: Walking Raven2001 Sout Broadway Denver, CO 80210
An excerpt from William Breathes's November 2011 review: "Walking Raven has the distinction of being the first place I reviewed for Westword. After my last visit, I wrote that "Walking Raven feels like that hippie [sic] kid's hangout in high school." Now, two years later, the place feels like that high-school hippy has moved on and is now in his first post-dorm house at a pot-friendly liberal arts college in Vermont."
Continue to count down all 33 of the recreational marijuana stores licensed by the City of Denver so far. Number 30: Patients Choice on Morrison Road4000 Morrison Road Denver, CO 80219
To visit the Patients Choice on Morrison Road Facebook page, click here.
Number 29: Herb's Nest3900 East 48th Avenue Denver, CO 80216
To visit the Herb's Nest Facebook page, click here.
Number 28: Wellspring Collective1724 South Broadway Denver, CO 80210
An excerpt from William Breathes's April 2010 review: "Some dispensaries along South Broadway seem to pride themselves on standing out among the antique stores and clothing shops. Wellspring Collective has taken the opposite approach and blends in with the rest of the businesses. Even with competition around almost every corner, owner Morgan Carr thinks the location is a perfect fit for the dispensary. A vocal proponent of the dispensary model, Carr has hosted numerous Denver City Council members and state legislators at his store. 'At the end of the day, I want them to see a shop that is doing it right,' he said over the phone."
Number 27: Sacred Seed5885 East Evans Avenue Denver, CO 80222
To visit the Sacred Seed website, click here.
Number 26: Alternative Medicine on Capitol Hill
1301 North Marion Street Denver, CO 80218
To visit the Alternative Medicine on Capitol Hill website, click here.
Number 25: The Sanctuary5110 North Race Street Denver, CO 80216
The Sanctuary is a Strainwise center. To visit the Strainwise website, click here.
Continue to count down all 33 of the recreational marijuana stores licensed by the City of Denver so far. Number 24: Starbuds4690 North Brighton Boulevard Denver, CO 80216
To visit the Starbuds Facebook page, click here.
Number 23: Good Chemistry330 East Colfax Avenue Denver, CO 80203
An excerpt from William Breathes's January 2014 review: "We first reviewed Good Chemistry nearly three years ago, in March 2011, and not much has changed since then at the thin, narrow Colfax storefront with the frosted glass and New York-style retractable metal security gate hanging above the entrance and huge front window. The tiny reception area/waiting room is a little bit more weathered, and there's a new, pretty awesome oil painting of a Cthulhu-esque octopus creature that the owners managed to match up with the red vintage theater seats they've had since day one."
Number 22: Colorado Harvest Company1178 Sout Kalamath Street Denver, CO 80223
An excerpt from William Breathes's December 2013 review: "Other than the skunky odor wafting around the sidewalk out front, the green awning at Colorado Harvest is the only real indication that the tan building is a grow facility and dispensary. The rest of the block is equally nondescript and industrial: An auto salvage yard sits across the street, and the shop is flanked by the Talking Book warehouse on one side and a gas/fire-extinguisher-tank fabrication shop on the other. There's little drive-by traffic, let alone foot traffic, which is nice if you're still looking to be discreet about where you go for your pot."
Number 21: Timberline Herbal Clinic & Wellness3995 East 50th Avenue Denver, CO 80216
An excerpt from William Breathes's February 2012 review: "There's no fancy decor inside. The clinic feels like the prefabbed office for a construction site, with a few hand-me-down leather office chairs lined up around paneled walls, gray utilitarian carpet and a coffee table just big enough to hold a stack of magazines. Not grimy or anything like that, just well-used. A few pot posters and framed photographs hang on the walls, and a TV was on the early news, giving the space a casual, kick-your-feet-up living-room vibe."
Number 20: Mile High Therapeutic/Altitude1568 South Federal Boulevard Denver, CO 80219
Number 19: Altitude Organic Medicine6858 East Evans Avenue Denver, CO 80224
To visit the Altitude Organic Medicine Facebook page, click here.
Continue to count down all 33 of the recreational marijuana stores licensed by the City of Denver so far. Number 18: The Clinic Colorado3888 East Mexico Avenue Denver, CO 80210
To visit The Clinic Colorado Facebook page, click here.
Number 17: Mile High Medical Cannabis1705 Federal Boulevard Denver, CO 80204
An excerpt from our January 17 post headlined "Patriots fans in Denver for game scoring plenty of legal pot:" "No matter how the AFC Championship game between Denver and New England turns out, the Broncos playoff run will turn out well for Justin Staley. Why? Staley's an owner of Mile High Medical Cannabis, whose location, at 1705 Federal Boulevard, is only steps away from Mile High Stadium. Last week, plenty of San Diego Chargers fans in town for their match-up stopped by the shop to take advantage of legal recreational pot sales -- something that presumably helped them deal with a 24-17 loss -- and visiting Patriots boosters are following suit."
Number 16: Denco Alternative Medicine3460 Park Ave West Denver, CO 80216
To visit the Denco Alternative Medicine Facebook page, click here.
Number 15: The Health Center1736 North Downing Street Denver, CO 80218
An excerpt from William Breathes's July 2012 review: "Inside, what was either a mud room or the kitchen has been turned into the small patient intake area. There's really not much to the space other than the purple walls and window into the receptionist area, but take a second to check out the old pictures of the building hanging in a frame on the wall near the door. At one time, it looked more like a crack house than the oversized dollhouse it resembles today."
Number 14: 3D Cannabis Center/3D4305 North Brighton Boulevard Denver, CO 80216
An excerpt from William Breathes's August 2011 review: "Denver's Discreet Dispensary is anything but discreet. Though the huge, old, brown-brick industrial building it occupies off Brighton Boulevard does blend in with the warehouses, auto body shops and junkyards that surround it, the huge green crosses on the front and the smell of skunk in the air from the grow-room vents are a dead giveaway as to what is going on inside."
Number 13: Kindman 4125 North Elati Street Denver, CO 80216An excerpt from William Breathes's March 2013 review: "Something kept me there: It's a tossup as to whether it was the skunky smell or the fact that I didn't have time to go anywhere else this week. Either way, I sat around in the county-jail-waiting-room-like entryway until the extremely bubbly and friendly woman behind the tinted glass security window buzzed the door open and told me to go on back."
Continue to count down all 33 of the recreational marijuana stores licensed by the City of Denver so far. Number 12: CitiMed1640 East Evans Avenue Denver, CO 80210
An excerpt from William Breathes's October 2012 review: "The location means the store is likely to get a lot of student walk-in traffic. At least that's the impression I got after seeing the DU swag hung up on the waiting room walls -- plus I went there a few times when I was in grad school and needed a gram or two for the evening. I never found anything amazing, but neither did I ever walk out empty-handed."
Number 11: The Healing House Denver2383 South Downing Street Denver, CO 80210
Click to visit The Healing House Denver Facebook page.
Number 10: The Green Solution4400 Grape Street Denver, CO 80216
To visit The Green Solution website, click here.
Number 9: The Green Solution2601 West Alameda Avenue Denver, CO 80219
To visit The Green Solution website, click here.
Number 8: Denver Kush Club2615 Welton Street Denver, CO 80205
An excerpt from William Breathes's April 2102 review: "It's probably not a place for your hip-hop-hating dad with a red card, but it feels perfectly at home in the heart of a diverse neighborhood populated by everyone from black families who have been in the area for generations to hippies and, lately, twenty-something hipsters and musicians."
Number 7: Evergreen Apothecary1568 South Broadway Denver, CO 80210
An excerpt from William Breathes's July 2012 review: "The bud-bar room is much smaller in comparison to the rest of the shop. Hip-high glass counters with edibles, concentrates and more glass pipes surround you. Bud is kept in large jars on green bookcases behind the counters, with different shelves denoting the various price ranges. The jars also are color-coded for price, but I found it easier to just ask how much each strain was selling for as I looked at it."
Continue to count down all 33 of the recreational marijuana stores licensed by the City of Denver so far. Number 6: Medicine Man Denver4750 North Nome Street Denver, CO 80239
An excerpt from William Breathes's May 2012 review: "The shop is located north of I-70 in a warehouse district of Montbello -- about as far northeast as you can go in town and still find a medical marijuana shop. The center is nice, though, with large old trees on the lawns of nearby industrial buildings. Aside from the green "Medicine Man" sign out front, and the neon green cross in the barred front windows, it's not a very obvious dispensary site."
Number 5: Lodo Wellness Center1617 Wazee Street Denver, CO 80202
An excerpt from William Breathes's October 2013 review: "The dispensary is down a steep flight of stairs from the sidewalk to the basement of the building. The dispensary takes up the entire floor, tucking patient lounges in between massive structural columns and pushing couches up against the massive painted bricks used for the foundation of the former paper mill. Much like Boulder Wellness in Boulder, the shop has gone for an Eastern Buddhist/Zen theme with low painted chairs, squatting Buddha statues and colorful framed posters with vaguely Hindu symbols. There was also a huge, seven-foot-tall antique-looking ceramic vase painted with what looked like a life-sized crane. In my head, I could see a massive cannabis tree fitting in perfectly."
Number 4: DANK Colorado3835 North Elm Street Denver, CO 80207
An excerpt from William Breathes's July 2012 review: "DANK is basically a 400 square-foot green box with a matching leather couch and chairs set up in one corner as a lounge, and a cutout window in the opposite wall that opens into the employee-only bud room. Small, hinge-top sample jars with a few buds each are kept out on display on the counter. To the left of the bud counter is a small glass case filled with inexpensive pipes, papers and assorted marijuana ephemera."
Number 3: The Shelter4095 North Jackson Street Denver, CO 80216
The Shelter is a Strainwise center. To visit the Strainwise website, click here.
Number 2: The Haven777 North Canosa Court Denver, CO 80204
The Haven is also Strainwise shop. To visit the Strainwise website, click here.
Number 1: The Grove74 Federal Boulevard Denver, CO 80219
The Grove, at the former location of Earth's Medicine, is yet another Strainwise store. To visit the Strainwise website, click here.
Continue to see the rest of the original post. 3D Cannabis Center, 4305 Brighton Boulevard Alternative Medicine on Capitol Hill, 1301 Marion Street Altitude Organic Medicine, 6858 East Evans Avenue Citi-Med, 1640 East Evans Avenue The Clinic Colorado, 3888 East Mexico Avenue Colorado Harvest Company, 1178 South Kalamath Dank Colorado, 3835 Elm Street Denco, 3460 Park Avenue West Denver Kush Club, 2615 Welton Street Evergreen Apothecary, 1568 South Broadway Good Chemistry, 330 East Colfax Avenue The Green Solution, 2601 West Alameda Avenue The Green Solution, 4400 Grape Street The Grove, 74 Federal Boulevard The Haven, 777 Canosa Court The Healing House Denver, 2383 South Downing Street The Health Center, 1736 Downing Street Herb's Nest, 3900 East 48th Avenue Kindman, 4125 Elati Street LoDo Wellness, 1617 Wazee Street Medicine Man Denver, 4750 Nome Street Mile High Medical Cannabis, 1705 Federal Boulevard Mile High Therapeutic/Altitude, 1568 South Federal Boulevard Patients Choice, 4000 Morrison Road Sacred Seed, 5885 East Evans Avenue Sanctuary, 5110 Race Street The Shelter, 4095 Jackson Street Starbuds, 4690 Brighton Boulevard Timberline, 3995 East 50th Avenue Wellspring Collective, 1724 South BroadwayHere's more information about where to find pot outside Denver:
Outside of Denver, while some municipalities have banned retail shops and others are just beginning to license stores, dozens of pot shops have already opened. Go to our marijuana page and search for stores outside of Denver by checking "retail."In addition to Denver County, the following counties also allow for the sale of recreational marijuana -- excluding towns/cities within their borders that have banned such sales. Chaffee County Clear Creek County Garfield County Gilpin County Larimer County Park County Pitkin County Pueblo County San Miguel County
And the following towns/cities are allowing the sale of recreational marijuana: Alma Aspen Breckenridge Carbondale Central City Edgewater Empire Frisco Garden City Georgetown Idaho Springs Leadville Nederland Northglenn Silverthorne Steamboat Springs Telluride
From our December 31, 2013 archives:"Eighteen Denver stores and other spots that could sell pot on January 1."
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