Getting high at altitude: How weed was legally woven into a film festival

Cultural snapshot: High in the mountains of Colorado, a film festival works to integrate cannabis into the mainstream

“Alright, it’s time to light it up,” said David Holbrooke, wrapped in a Mountainfilm parka while standing atop a scenic rooftop looking out on the towering box canyon walls protecting the high-altitude Colorado resort town Telluride.

Holbrooke is the festival director of Telluride Mountainfilm, the beloved 36-year-old documentary film festival known for its progressive, socially conscious and integrative celebration in one of Colorado’s most jaw-dropping settings. The festival and its iconic Tibetan prayer flags took over Telluride on Memorial Day Weekend, and I was there to speak about the film “Rolling Papers,” which followed my colleagues and I at The Denver Post and The Cannabist as we covered the first year of legal recreational marijuana sales in the modern world.

The first Cannabis & Conversation panel at Telluride Mountainfilm with,...

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