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Dear Stoner: I just bought a THC soda at a movie theater in Minnesota, and other states are passing laws allowing cannabis cafes. What does Colorado have to show after all this time?
Dairy King
Dear Dairy King: Colorado is nearly twelve years into legalizing adult-use cannabis, but the licensed consumption space is still limited. You can’t buy low-dose THC edibles at liquor stores or movie theaters like you can in Minnesota, and there are no pot-friendly cafes out here yet – but the options are growing, at least.
On top of allowing tens of thousands of people to smoke weed at Civic Center Park every year on 4/20, Denver has a small but growing list of licensed consumption venues, with three now operating and one more under construction, as well as a cannabis bar allowing consumption and product sales just outside of town. Denver is also home to a handful of mobile consumption lounges that allow you to light up on the way to a Red Rocks show or while touring Denver taco joints.
Colorado doesn’t have many cannabis-friendly venues to show for its eleven-plus years of legalization, but it’s better than nothing.
Jacqueline Collins
It’s more limited outside of Denver, but there is cannabis-friendly fun across Colorado, from the annual Bong-A-Thon (held in a hidden location each year) to Roasted, a dispensary and lounge just north of the New Mexico border. And there are always underground events, which still account for most of the action in the state.
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