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Our Ten Favorite Marijuana Photos of 2020

Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 1:30 p.m.

Jacqueline Collins Some people don't believe in mixing work with pleasure, but Kristin and Danny Murr-Sloat do it almost every day at AlpinStash, the couple's commercial indoor marijuana cultivation. 1/10

Jacqueline Collins One plant stands above the rest during our visit to AlpinStash. 2/10

Thomas Mitchell A line of customers waits outside of Denver Kush Club on March 23, 2020, after Mayor Michael Hancock's administration announced that recreational marijuana dispensaries would be among the businesses closing for two weeks during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. That order was quickly backtracked, but it was too late to stop the rush. 3/10

Jacqueline Collins The Creswell Mansion at 1244 Grant Street was once part of Denver's Millionaire's Row. Now, the home is known as the Marijuana Mansion, full of history, art, future plans...and ghosts, according to owner Lisa Leder. 4/10

Jacqueline Collins A Marijuana Mansion guest enjoys a joint in the mansion's spooky upstairs bathroom. 5/10

Jacqueline Collins Even amid a pandemic, customers were willing to line up for the opening of Cookies' first dispensary in Denver, which opened on South Broadway in November. 6/10

Jacqueline Collins Cookies' new store, a look into the future of Cannabis branding, also features a peek inside one of the dispensary's supplying grows. 7/10

Jacqueline Collins A Westword photographer documented a day in the life of a commercial marijuana grower at a greenhouse operation in Ordway. 8/10

Clara Geoghegan The new mural at Higher Grade, a Denver dispensary, was completed by local artists TukeOne and Chad Bolsinger in October. 9/10

Courtesy of Charlotte’s Web Charlotte's Web partnered with Shepard Fairey’s art studio and a maze designer to create this massive field art in honor of the many uses of hemp. The project was displayed on a Kansas wheat farm during the summer, and measured over 3 million square feet. 10/10

Our Ten Favorite Marijuana Photos of 2020

The world of marijuana was full of uncertainty, growth and fast times last year, and our photographers were there to capture it. Here are our ten favorite Colorado marijuana photos of 2020.

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