By Pat Hanahoe-Dosch
Boulder, Colorado, a small, beautiful city approximately 25 miles from Denver, sits at the base of the Rocky Mountains, about an hour south of the main entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park (where it is illegal to possess or use marijuana since it is federal land). It is home to the University of Colorado and the Naropa Institute, “a Buddhist-inspired, student-centered liberal arts university,” according to the institute’s website. And according to Weedmaps.com, at least 35 shops are now selling recreational marijuana in Boulder since the passage of the Colorado Marijuana Legalization Amendment, also known as Amendment 64, on November 6, 2012. The Terrapin Care Station, the first of these to open, has two shops in different locations. I stood in the Folsom Street shop, not quite sure what to make of it. Not much resembled the alternative sub-cultures “weed” has come to symbolize. It’s not your parents’ weed, man (my apologies to that old, Oldsmobile ad). But I’m still not sure if that’s good or bad.
Boulder, Colorado, a small, beautiful city approximately 25 miles from Denver, sits at the base of the Rocky Mountains, about an hour south of the main entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park (where it is illegal to possess or use marijuana since it is federal land). It is home to the University of Colorado and the Naropa Institute, “a Buddhist-inspired, student-centered liberal arts university,” according to the institute’s website. And according to Weedmaps.com, at least 35 shops are now selling recreational marijuana in Boulder since the passage of the Colorado Marijuana Legalization Amendment, also known as Amendment 64, on November 6, 2012. The Terrapin Care Station, the first of these to open, has two shops in different locations. I stood in the Folsom Street shop, not quite sure what to make of it. Not much resembled the alternative sub-cultures “weed” has come to symbolize. It’s not your parents’ weed, man (my apologies to that old, Oldsmobile ad). But I’m still not sure if that’s good or bad.