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Is this central Denver’s first 420-friendly hotel?

Many in Colorado’s bustling cannabis industry have complained about the lack of marijuana-friendly hotels in this state and others. But Keef Cola partner Richmond Meyer is actually doing something about it — he’s opening Nativ Hotel this week in downtown Denver boasting that half of its 16 rooms have weed-friendly balconies.

Pot club in Englewood highlights public consumption conundrum

Pot club in Englewood highlights public consumption conundrum

A newly opened cannabis club in Englewood allows, for a fee, people ages 21 and older the chance to toke up. But the club quickly ran afoul of city officials, who issued an emergency ordinance to ban future pot-smoking outposts.

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Denver’s hospitality industry conflicted on social pot use

The proposed initiative that would allow Denver entrepreneurs to open their 21-and-up business and patio spaces to limited marijuana consumption has divided many in the city – and it’s not even clear yet if the question will land on the city’s November 2015 ballot.

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Best of 2014: The 15 most intriguing questions our readers asked this year

Here are 15 of the most intriguing questions readers had for Ask The Cannabist columnist Susan Squibb in the first year of recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. Queries ran the gamut from what’s now legal (and what’s still illegal) to the products for sale in pot shops to quests for 1970s strains and cooking with weed.

Pot tourism grows in Colo. even as officials refuse to endorse it

Pot tourism grows in Colorado even as officials refuse to endorse it

Look all you want, and you’ll find nary a marijuana tourism brochure at kiosks operated by Colorado’s official travel bureaus. Yet that institutional prohibition hasn’t stopped thousands of cannabis tourists from visiting Colorado to experience the phenomenon of legal marijuana.