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Tonight, despite a lawsuit threat, Denver City Council is expected to ban outdoor advertising at medical marijuana dispensaries — a move largely motivated by dislike of MMJ sign spinners. Yet as outlined by Kelsey Whipple’s recent feature “Spin City! Denver’s sign spinners want you to give them a twirl,” sign spinning can be an art. As proof, count down eight Whipple-created GIFs demonstrating different spinning techniques. Will they convince council to give spinners another chance? Decide for yourself below.
8. The new guy
7. Around town
6. Corner crawl
5. Behind the back
Continue through for more moves.
4. The show-off
3. The Matrix
2. High kick
1. Humble brag
More from our Marijuana archive: “Photos: Top ten jobs for soon-to-be-unemployed medical marijuana sign spinners.”