(Seth McConnell, Denver Post file)

High Times’ editor hints some will still sample at Cannabis Cup

By now you’ve read that the free sampling of vendors’ marijuana, edibles and concentrates — a long-standing Cannabis Cup tradition — will no longer happen so freely at the Denver event. You’ve also likely seen the reaction to that, with some saying that it will be the fans who suffer because of the Marijuana Enforcement Division’s decision.


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Perhaps there will still be a certain amount of sampling at this weekend’s Cannabis Cup after all, according to High Times editor-in-chief Dan Skye, who stopped by The Cannabist Show earlier this week.

When asked about the hot-button issue by marijuana editor Ricardo Baca, Skye said he wasn’t sure what vendors and businesses from other legal states will do regarding sampling — since the MED’s bulletin only affects Colorado-licensed businesses.

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