Staff favorites: DANK Dispensary is the only place I'm visiting during 420 week
As we celebrate 4/20 this week, consider hitting up Northeast Denver’s DANK Dispensary, which sells great local products at good prices with excellent customer service
John Wenzel writes about comedy, music, video games, books, film and other popular culture as an A&E reporter for The Denver Post. He is the author of the Speck/Fulcrum nonfiction book "Mock Stars" and has contributed to Rolling Stone, Esquire, Vice, The Guardian and Splitsider, among others. His love for Guided by Voices is wholly unnatural and knows no bounds.
As we celebrate 4/20 this week, consider hitting up Northeast Denver’s DANK Dispensary, which sells great local products at good prices with excellent customer service
Denver chefs are among the contestants on “Chopped 420,” a cannabis-centric spinoff of the legendary cooking competition hosted by comic and actor Ron Funches, debuting for streaming on Discovery+ on Tuesday April 20
“This was supposed to be Colorado’s year. All the Instagram girls — Gigi Hadid, Kendall Jenner — were wearing cowboy boots and wide-brimmed hats.”
The film is currently available to rent on streaming platforms.
Have a blazin’ 4/20.
“Even though California was easily positioned to take the cannabis crown, they’ve done an excellent job of screwing that up recently with the extremely slow roll-out of their licenses.
This weekend, Colorado will host its first substantial marijuana-centric film festival, the Cannabus Fest in Fort Collins.
A “stoner movie” can be a flick whose plot or characters are based primarily on weed consumption, or simply a movie that’s best watched while high. We rank both.
Spend some private time with Colorado comic Josh Blue, who allowed Denver Post videographer Vincent Chandler to spend a day with him as he played with his kids, smoked weed and performed stand-up during the High Plains Comedy Festival.
Ben Parr, the author of “Captivology: The Science of Capturing People’s Attention,” talks selective attention, why some video games are more addictive than others and the deeper connection between gaming and weed.
When Margaret Cho performs in Colorado, the budding pot activist and entrepreneur wants to see how the recreational weed scene compares to her California roots.
The Denver County Fair has canceled its attention-getting Pot Pavilion this year following a class-action lawsuit that accused a vendor of handing out samples of marijuana-laced chocolates at last year’s event, which was supposed to be drug-free.
Comedian Hannibal Buress had some choice words for the cannabis products at Native Roots pot shop in Denver on a recent tour stop.
Doug Benson’s “Promotional Tool,” recorded during his 4/20 stop in the Mile High City this year, features regular plugs for his many projects.
“Celebrity Weed Freakout” is a reality TV show that needs to happen right now. Here are five other shows we’d like to see. Check out the pitches for “Swamp Stoners” and “Willie Nelson’s Next Top Model.”
Watch “Last Comic Standing” champs Josh Blue and Felip Esparza get blazed on Doug Benson’s YouTube talk show “Getting Doug With High.”
Pot and video games have separately been shown to be addictive to the right kind of personality. They press our pleasure buttons and give us a sense of euphoria and achievement, of high excitement with low stakes. So is there an inherently higher danger of addiction when combining the two?
Sexpot Comedy, which was created in 2012 by marijuana entrepreneur Kayvan Khalatbari and has grown with the help of Denver comedian-producer Andy Juett, is retooling for 2015 after a year of creative triumphs — but also empty seats at some of its live shows and a delayed website launch.
Why is vaping the dumbest thing ever? I’ll admit, I think “vape” is a dumb-sounding word and generally looks about as cool as wearing a Bluetooth headset. I’m also partial to the idea that it’s a “half-high,” a poseur way of consuming cannabis and/or nicotine.
There’s no ambiguity about who the target market is for a book called “Marijuana for Everybody!” With recreational cannabis now legal in Colorado and Washington, and the green tide rising across the country, the editors at High Times magazine were smart to commission a general-audience primer on all-things-weed.
Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson of the comedy show “Broad City” have recorded a weed-happy love letter to Denver ahead of their Nov. 21 tour stop. They promise to hook us up, make us laugh and perform a romantic evening of comedy for all. (Tall orders, ladies, but we have a feeling you’ll come through.)
Sarah Silverman would “love to” visit a Denver pot shop, but she never gets high before performing.
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you: Why multiplayer online gaming is insufferable when you’re stoned. Playing Titanfall or Call of Duty or Red Dead Redemption online is like hanging out with a bunch of testosterone-fueled children I’d never want to be around in real life.
Fully legal weed sales begin today, July 8 in Seattle, our great emerald cousin to the north, and the difference from Denver’s start of pot sales is stark: From what we’re seeing, sales may well be met with the wet fizzle of a blunt dropped in a half-empty Starbucks cup.
Fans of the weed-friendly Comedy Central breakout series “Broad City” know that Ilana Glazer frequently plays the fool to Abbi Jacobson’s more responsible, put-upon straight-woman. But the cannabis-loving comedian and writer goes even further in her web series “Chronic Gamer Girl.”
Denver’s comedy scene has been goofing on the reality of recreationally-legal cannabis over the past few months. The latest offering: the Nix Bros.’ video for online humor clearinghouse Funny or Die — “Mile High.”
Kathleen Madigan, arguably Colorado’s favorite comedian, discusses the significance of Colorado’s cannabis laws and more. “I’m definitely going into a pot store when I’m (in Colorado) next. I went into one in California and as a non-pot-person I was overwhelmed at the organization of it.”
Want to avoid the most common hand and wrist video game injuries caused by hours of nonstop gaming? Dr. Levi Harrison, a.k.a. “The Gamer’s Doctor” has you covered. He discusses common maladies and offers tips for preventing injury.
We catch up with Rain Pryor in advance of her Denver appearance to talk about stepping out of her father Richard’s shadow, her experiences as a drug counselor in Los Angeles and why she thinks legal weed is a good thing in Colorado — even if she’s not sure she’s going to partake.
INTERVIEW: European travel expert, public TV host, author and noted marijuana activist Rick Steves opens up about state drug policies, social justice and the head trips of legal weed in Colorado and Washington.
In honor of reggae great Bob Marley’s birthday on Thursday, (he would have been 69), we caught up with some local and national reggae bands to ask if Colorado’s legalization has affected their work and art, and what’s next in this new weed reality.
Stoner heroes Cheech & Chong are returning to Colorado in a big way March 22 with a show at Broomfield’s 1stBank Center, with music from War.
Insult comedy is alive and well in stand-up, but few comics do it as harshly and effectively as Jeff Ross. We caught up with the noted cannabis lover before his “Jeff Ross Roasts You” show in Boulder to talk put-downs, pot and more.
The list of classic stoner comedies is pretty short, including Cheech & Chong’s “Up in Smoke,” Ice Cube’s “Friday,” “The Big Lebowski,” “Pineapple Express” and Anna Faris’ criminally underrated “Smiley Face.” And while we’re pretty sure the direct-to-DVD “Tokeasy” won’t ever be among them, the Colorado written-and-produced film is still…
We are living in a golden age of video games and weed. Need proof? Games are more popular, awesome and accessible than they’ve ever been, thanks to ever-improving technology, the rise of indie gaming and the tablet/smartphone revolution. And weed? Well, that’s why you’re here, isn’t it?
From our interview with stoner comic Doug Benson came this mind-blowing gem: “Stand-up is fun, smoking pot is fun. Fun plus fun equals bigger fun. Who doesn’t want large fun?”