Update: See all 88 retail pot shops Denver has licensed in six months since sales began

Today marks six months since recreational marijuana sales began in Colorado, still the only state where such purchases can be made. (The first licensed retail shops in Washington are expected to open on July 7.) By the January 1 launch, eighteen stores had been licensed in Denver, and since then, the total has grown steadily. Some outlets have come and some have gone, but the latest total, as vetted by Westword's Amber Taufen, stands at a whopping 88 -- fifteen more than our previous update in April.

All the licensed shops are included here, along with photos, videos, links and excerpts from reviews of the ones visited by Westword marijuana critic William Breathes. Count them down below.

Number 88: Advanced Medical Alternatives

4283 West Florida Avenue Denver, CO

Number 87: Back to the Garden Health & Wellness

1755 South Broadway Denver, CO

An excerpt from William Breathes's October 2012 review: "The storefront is in an old strip center on South Broadway, and it's among the smallest shops I've visited. The entryway/lobby/reception desk area has just enough room for three or four people, and that's assuming you've all become comfortable enough to sit hip to hip on the antique-style fainting couch across from the reception window."

Number 86: Cannabis Station

1201 20th Street Denver, CO

An excerpt from William Breathes's July 2012 review: "I've always been impressed with the way the Cannabis Station took over an old automobile service station without forgetting its past. For example, the old sign out front that once displayed prices for gallons of diesel now shows prices for ounces of Sour Diesel. And an artist has incorporated a few red Mobil Pegasuses (Pegasi?) and old-school red script lettering of its painted name above the two old garage bays."

Number 85: Colorado Wellness Inc.

2057 South Broadway Denver, CO

An excerpt from William Breathes's May 2012 review: "Compared to nearby shops, Colorado Wellness looks surprisingly simple from the outside, lacking the dozens of signs advertising cheap weed that so many neighbors have. Parking was easy between the MMC and the usually busy Famous Pizza joint next door. The waiting area is a huge, high-celienged room that reminded me of the foyers of modern suburban elementary schools, where all the kids and classrooms are locked away behind security doors manned by a receptionist in a glassed-in booth."

Number 84:

5430 West 44th Avenue Denver, CO

An excerpt from William Breathes's June 2014 review: "The name of Medicinal Wellness Center sounded so generic that after I noticed it the other day online, I couldn't recall if I had been there before, a long time ago, or hadn't been there at all. Turns out I was right on both fronts, sort of."

Number 83: Fox Street Wellness

4773 North Fox Street Denver, CO

An excerpt from William Breathes's December 2012 review: "Fox Street Wellness is in a Bermuda triangle of a location, just southeast of Sunnyside in a warehouse district cornered by I-25 on the east, 48th Avenue to the north and I-70 to the south. Unless you know the area well, you'll likely end up driving around in circles, cursing former city planners for creating such a clusterfuck."

Number 82: Frosted Leaf

445 North Federal Boulevard Denver, CO

An excerpt of William Breathes's October 2012 review: "The stools in front are the same low-back, Sharper Image-style ones from Serentity Moon. Opposite the bud bar on the other side of the shop are office spaces for management. Across from the entrance and receptionist desk is where the shop keeps the edibles -- although, as usual, I didn't do much browsing for food."

Number 81: L'Eagle

380 Quivas Street Denver, CO

An excerpt from William Breathes's July 2013 review: "Unless you work for Xcel or one of the handful of other industrial businesses along the railroad tracks in the area, you probably haven't ever set foot in the corner of Denver that L'Eagle Services calls home -- though you've driven past it thousands of times on I-25. The shop's warehouse-front location stands out for it's surroundings not because of the industrially artistic orange corrugated tin siding, but due to the immaculate flower garden out front. First thought: The petunias and sage look good enough to smoke."

Continue to keep counting down the 88 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Number 80: Doctors Orders

1406 West 38th Avenue Denver, CO

Number 79: High Street Growers

330 North Federal Denver, CO

Number 78: AMA Denver

1269 Elati Street Denver, CO

Number 77: La Conte's Clone Bar & Dispensary

5194 North Washington Street Denver, CO

An excerpt from William Breathes's May 2014 review: "Last month, though, La Conte's took second place at the High Times Cannabis Cup -- and that sparked my curiosity as to how much the quality had improved in the past three years, during which it's gone from a mom-and-pop to a booming dual-use recreational and medical pot shop."

Number 76: LivWell II

2193 West Evans Avenue Denver, CO

Number 75: Metro Inc.

8151 East. Colfax Denver, CO

Number 74: Next Harvest Wellness

2748 West Alameda Avenue Denver, CO

Number 73: Sweet Leaf

5100 West 38th Avenue Denver, CO

An excerpt from William Breathes's August 2013 review: "A grower friend who knows his cannabis casually told me about Sweet Leaf between hits of herb at a concert recently. When you're used to growing your own herb and not paying for it, finding a place to get a cheap ounce between harvests can be a tricky ordeal. You've obviously got your preferences as to how things are supposed to be grown and what types of strains you like. Sweet Leaf was his go-to spot for $125 ounces that are 'good -- not amazing, but dependable' when he needs to re-up or just get some variety on his coffee table."

Number 72: Colorado Cannabis Facility

4600 North Ironton Street Denver, CO 80239

Number 71: The Health Center University Hills

2777 South Colorado Boulevard Denver, CO 80222

Continue to keep counting down the 88 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Number 70: High Level Health

2028 East Colfax Avenue Denver, CO 80206

Number 69: Euflora

401 16th Street Denver, CO 80202

Number 68: Rocky Mountain High

1538 Wazee Street Denver, CO 80202

Number 67: Natures Cure III

1500 East Colfax Avenue Denver, CO 80218

An excerpt from William Breathes's December 2013 review: "Nature's Cure III is on Humboldt and East Colfax. And not the new Colfax with fancy brew pubs and shiny condos. This is still Colfax Colfax. A spot where you can see a dude rapping to himself at the bus stop, a hooker walking in heels stumbling past the furniture rental place, and a drunk pissing himself while half-passed out after bumming for change and downing a bottle of cheap gin from Scooter Liquors."

Number 66: The Green Depot

2020 South Broadway Denver, CO 80210

An excerpt from William Breathes's January 2014 review: "In every city, there are buildings known for being complete black holes for any restaurant or bar that tries to open. I can think of a few in Denver off the top of my head, including one at the corner of 11th and Lincoln, where dance clubs, mescal bars and wanna-be hipster hangouts have burned out within a year, if not a few months. Similarly, over the last five years, I've seen the same thing happen in the medical marijuana world in Denver, at the South Broadway storefront currently occupied by the Green Depot. But this center may have finally found the formula for breaking the curse."

Number 65: RiverRock

990 West 6th Avenue Denver, CO 80204

Number 64: Sticky Buds

2262 South Broadway Denver, CO 80201

An excerpt from William Breathes's April 2013 review: "The dispensary is in the space formerly occupied by Delta 9 Alternative Medicine -- before that crew split and left behind a sagging banner that stayed out front for months. The new owners have changed up as much as they can, but a few things remain the same, including the shared entrance with the tattoo parlor next door. The girl working the counter of the tattoo parlor looked up from her magazine, sizing me up. I cut her glare short by making a turn to the right into the dispensary lobby instead of to the left and into her shop."

Number 63: Sticky Buds

183 West Alameda Avenue Denver, CO 80223

Number 62: LivWell

432 South Broadway Denver, CO 80209

An excerpt from William Breathes's March 2013 review: "The shop is clean and really, really upscale, with wide-plank hardwood floors and clean, molding-topped tan walls uncluttered with pot posters and product advertisements. Walking in off the street puts you in the lobby and waiting area, right in front of a sharp-dressed secretary sitting behind a large computer desk. It could easily pass for a Cherry Creek real-estate office or an empty art gallery waiting to hang the next show. The dark-wood floors and high ceilings inside the old building give it an echoing, empty feeling at first, but the bright sunshine pouring in from the western-facing front windows and mellow electronic music give the place some life."

Number 61: Patients Choice of Colorado

2251 South Broadway Denver, CO 80210

An excerpt from William Breathes's September 2009 review: "The establishment's surroundings are deceptive. Patients Choice has hung its shingle on an industrial stretch of South Broadway teeming with fast-food joints and auto dealers. Inside, however, it's like a whole different world, with a soothing green paint scheme, natural wood touches and tasteful floral arrangements. Like we suggested, it could pass for an admissions office -- especially since, like universities, prospects need to schedule an in-depth tour of the operation before they're allowed to become a medicated BMOC."

Continue to keep counting down the 88 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Number 60: Tetra Hydro Center

9206 East Hampden Avenue Denver, CO 80231

An excerpt from William Breathes's March 2013 review: "Get through the locked door to the bud bar and you're hit with a wave of hot, wet air -- like getting off a plane in Florida or walking into the Denver Botanic Gardens in February. Rounding the corner, it's clear what's causing the artificial season change: a massive closet packed with rooted clones in various stages of growth."

Number 59: Urba at MMD of Colorado

2609 Walnut Street Denver, CO 80205

An excerpt from William Breathes's April 2013 MMD of Colorado review: "Most of the time, I find dispensaries from friend suggestions. This time, it was Google maps -- more specifically, a street-view image of a hippie walking out of the dispensary and clearly being surprised to see the Googlemobile. Pan to the northeast a frame, and homie is flipping the camera the bird. That doesn't really have anything do with MMD, but it was reason enough for me to stop by -- just to get a look at where Bird Man was caught on candid Internet camera."

Number 58: RiverRock

4935 North York Street Denver, CO 80216

An excerpt from William Breathes's September 2011 review: "The waiting room was a small, clean affair, with naturally stained bamboo floors, a neutral gray tone on the walls and smooth birch moldings around the teller window and door frame leading back to the bud bar. I handed my card to the woman behind the counter and took a seat in one of the ostrich-skinned leather chairs to fill out the three or so pages of forms. While not the first wild-game pelt I've sat on in a dispensary, ostrich is probably the most extravagant."

Number 57: LivWell

2863 Larimer Street Denver, CO 80205

An excerpt from William Breathes's June 2012 re-review: "Just walking from my parking spot across the heat-radiating pavement of Larimer Street made my T-shirt stick to my chest with sweat. I almost turned around when I first hit the waiting room up front and found it was only slightly cooler than outside. Two people waiting for friends buying bud inside looked like half-melted snowmen lumped into the chairs lining the walls. But behind the safety glass of the window, a receptionist was sitting in temperature-controlled bliss. Cold air blew through the hole where I handed her my card."

Number 56: The Giving Tree of Denver

2707 West 38th Avenue Denver, CO 80211

An excerpt from William Breathes's March 2012 re-review: "The shop entry leads to a small, slightly cramped but nicely appointed waiting room with freebie non-medicated brownies and muffins on a small coffee table outside the receptionist's window. On the other side of the small space, a live concert DVD of a Matisyahu concert played to nobody in particular."

Number 55: The Herbal Center

1909 Broadway Denver, CO

Number 54: Rocky Mountain High

1450 South Santa Fe Drive Denver, CO 80223

An excerpt from William Breathes's June 2011 review: "The shop is in a newish strip center off Santa Fe, surrounded by quick eateries and a liquor store. There's still a few vacant storefronts, so parking wasn't an issue even during rush hour. Employees should probably change the dispensaries carbon filters, because the smell of fresh cannabis being grown did more to lead me to the shop's back-corner location than the huge "Bud Cellar" sign hanging over the liquor store did."

Number 53: Botanico

3054 Larimer Street Denver, CO 80205

An excerpt from William Breathes's January 2012 review: "The waiting room is spacious and sparsely decorated, with an L-shaped leather couch in one corner and various pieces of abstract art and photography from local artists hung around the brick and yellow-painted walls. Other touches, like leaving the wooden ceiling beams exposed and using stained concrete as flooring are in keeping with the industrial-turned-residential feel of the neighborhood."

Number 52: GM Enterprise, DBA Golden Meds

4620 North Peoria Street Denver, CO 80239

Number 51: Ivita

1660 North Pearl Street Denver, CO 80203

An excerpt from William Breathes's July 2011 review: "The dispensary's building is a strange, one-story commercial job from the Sixties that's been brightened up from the outside with a coat of neutral tan paint and a spray-painted mural of a blue, elfish creature releasing a handful of butterflies. It's across the street from the Uptown Tavern, which coincidentally has a mini-bowling alley that is ridiculously fun to play when ripped on a good sativa, not to mention a well-ventilated patio. But I digress..."

Continue to keep counting down the 88 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Number 50: Lightshade

11975 East 40th Avenue Denver, CO 80239

An excerpt from William Breathes's July 2013 review: "I pulled up and parked between two cars that were still running, full of bodies waiting on whoever was inside to finish up their two-ounce purchases. By comparison, the three grams of medicine I eventually brought home were a drop in the bucket for the shop, which must have cleared about six of the $175 ounces during the fifteen minutes I was visiting."

Number 49: Lightshade Labs

3950 North Holly Street Denver, CO 80207

Number 48: Medicinal Oasis

6359 East Evans Avenue Denver, CO 80222

An excerpt from William Breathes's May 2013 review: "Medicinal Oasis has a tiny blue lobby with a long couch taking up half the room. It felt like the cramped interior of a sailboat -- though I'm not sure if that was intentional or just a by-product of a stoned contractor misjudging waiting-room space during the build-out. In the corners of the room were tiny ship models, in case you didn't get that you're leaving Denver for a tropical oasis by the sign out front along strip-centric East Evans Avenue."

Number 47: New Broadsterdam

2568 South Broadway Denver, CO 80210

An excerpt from William Breathes's January 2013 review: "Minus the cop chopper thrown in for humor, New Broadsterdam's waiting room had an appropriately Netherlands-esque thing going on, with pictures of windmills hung on the walls and other Dutch kitsch thrown around for good measure. There's also a huge, village-square-like white lattice pergola set up over the receptionist desk. It fits, though I'm not really sure about the Dutch connection on that one. The other pieces of heavy wooden antique furniture (and motorcycle) they've got sitting in the large, empty waiting room make it feel almost like one of the antique shops a few blocks north."

Number 46: Natural Remedies

1620 Market Street Denver, CO 80202

An excerpt from William Breathes's August 2011 review: "Natural Remedies is on the fifth floor of a turn-of-the-century building on Market Street above Sonoda's Sushi. The building has a central staircase and the smell of freshly fried tempura wafts all the way up to the fifth floor, generally overpowering the faint smell of cannabis until you get to the front door of the shop."

Number 45: Wellness Center of Denver

330 South Dayton Street Denver, CO 80247

An excerpt from William Breathes's March 2013 review: "Wellness Center of Denver is probably the closest dispensary I've found to the dispensary-less wasteland that is Aurora.

Due to their proximity to A-Town, the folks there really didn't need to do much more than set up a cash register and fill some jars with warehouse buds.

Instead, they've opted for a fancy weed lounge and retreat that feels more Cherry Creek than Havana Street."

Number 44:

790 West Evans Avenue Denver, CO 80223

Number 43: Native Roots Apothecary

910 16th Street, Suite 805 Denver, CO 80202

An excerpt from William Breathes's June 2010 review: "The lobby here easily qualifies as the fanciest I've seen at a dispensary, even if technically it doesn't belong to Native Roots. To reach the dispensary, I rode a brass-adorned elevator up to the eighth floor, and stepping out into the marble foyer -- with an old-time barbershop across from the elevator doors -- was like stepping into a time warp. But that impression faded as I rounded the corner and buzzed the doorbell that let me into the Native Roots waiting room."

Number 42: iVita Wellness

3980 North Franklin Street Denver, CO 80220

Number 41: Herbs4You

20 9th Avenue Denver, CO

An excerpt from William Breathes's August 2012 review: "Inside, Herbs4You could be the front office for just about any small, private business. Stock office furniture and couches occupy the small, forgettable waiting room, and the only indication that you're in a medical marijuana dispensary is the name of the shop, the secured entryway, and the dozens of Amsterdam-related items hung on the otherwise bare white walls. They range from flags to T-shirts from the various world-renowned coffee shops and seed companies that call the Dutch city home."

Continue to keep counting down the 88 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Number 40: Amsterdam Cafe

1325 South Inca Street Denver, CO 80223

Number 39: Cannamart

3700 West Quincy Avenue Denver, CO 80236

Number 38: Caregivers for Life, LLC

310 North Saint Paul Street Denver, CO 80236

An excerpt from William Breathes's May 2012 review: "The shop still occupies the same Cherry Creek North location, tucked away in the back of what looks to be an old apartment or condo complex. There's the same low-key sign out front, and a porch just begging for patients to puff there -- if the laws ever change in the cannabis user's favor."

Number 37: Denver Med Stop, DBA Gaia Plant Based Medicine

5926 East Colfax Avenue Denver, CO 80220

Number 36: Colorado Care Facility Inc., DBA Colorado Cannabis Facility

5130 Colfax Avenue Denver, CO 80220

An excerpt from William Breathes's March 2012 review: "The shop is small, with glass, aluminum and wooden cabinets forming an L-shaped countertop that takes up most of the bud bar. It's a clean space, well-lit and relaxing, with small stools for patients to pull up while taking a look at the buds. The center maintains a simple, mom and pop-ish feel."

Number 35: The Kind Room

1881 South Broadway Denver, CO 80210

An excerpt from William Breathes's November 2011 review: "The MMC wasn't fancy, but it wasn't sketchy or thrown together-feeling, either. Just clean, simple furniture and a flat, basic gray paint job. To the left when I walked in was a cream-colored massage chair like you sit in at the mall for ten minutes but never would actually consider purchasing unless you were really, really baked. Yeah, these guys bought one. (Talk about undercover stoners.) Also on hand was a dining-room table with chairs set up in another corner and out-of-place yet appropriately funky mirrored panels in part of the lobby ceiling."

Number 34: Discount Medical Marijuana, DBA High Level Health

970 North Lincoln Street Denver, CO 80203

Number 33:

MMJ America Uptown

2042 Arapahoe Street Denver, CO 80205

Number 32: 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 31: Walking Raven

2001 South 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 keep counting down the 88 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Number 30: Patients Choice on Morrison Road

4000 Morrison Road Denver, CO 80219

To visit the Patients Choice on Morrison Road Facebook page, click here.

Number 29: Herb's Nest

3900 East 48th Avenue Denver, CO 80216

To visit the Herb's Nest Facebook page, click here.

Number 28: Wellspring Collective

1724 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 Seed

5885 East Evans Avenue Denver, CO 80222

To visit the Sacred Seed website, click here.

Number 26:

1301 North Marion Street Denver, CO 80218

To visit the Alternative Medicine on Capitol Hill website, click here.

Number 25: The Sanctuary

5110 North Race Street Denver, CO 80216

The Sanctuary is a Strainwise center. To visit the Strainwise website, click here.

Number 24: Starbuds

4690 North Brighton Boulevard Denver, CO 80216

To visit the Starbuds Facebook page, click here.

Number 23: Good Chemistry

330 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 Company

1178 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 & Wellness

3995 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."

Continue to keep counting down the 88 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Numbers 20 and 19: Altitude Dispensary West

1568 South Federal Boulevard Denver, CO 80219

Altitude Dispensary East

6858 East Evans Avenue Denver, CO 80224

To visit the Altitude dispensaries website, click here.

Number 18: The Clinic Colorado

3888 East Mexico Avenue Denver, CO 80210

To visit The Clinic Colorado Facebook page, click here.

Number 17: Mile High Medical Cannabis, DBA Mile High Recreational Cannabis

1705 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 Medicine

3460 Park Ave West Denver, CO 80216

To visit the Denco Alternative Medicine Facebook page, click here.

Number 15: The Health Center

1736 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/3D

4305 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: The Grass Station 4125 North Elati Street Denver, CO 80216

An 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."

Number 12: CitiMed

1640 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 Denver

2383 South Downing Street Denver, CO 80210

Click to visit The Healing House Denver Facebook page.

Continue to keep counting down the 88 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Number 10: The Green Solution

4400 Grape Street Denver, CO 80216

To visit The Green Solution website, click here.

Number 9: The Green Solution

2601 West Alameda Avenue Denver, CO 80219

To visit The Green Solution website, click here.

Number 8: Denver Kush Club

2615 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 Apothecary

1568 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."

Number 6: Medicine Man Denver

4750 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 Center

1617 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 Colorado

3835 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 Shelter

4095 North Jackson Street Denver, CO 80216

The Shelter is a Strainwise center. To visit the Strainwise website, click here.

Number 2: The Haven

777 North Canosa Court Denver, CO 80204

The Haven is also Strainwise shop. To visit the Strainwise website, click here.

Number 1: The Grove

74 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.

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