‘Budtenders’ give tourists the Colorado cannabis story
“Budtender” Michael Rose introduced himself to me at the LoDo Wellness Center in downtown Denver last week.
Don’t let the business name mislead you. This is not a place filled with treadmills and barbells, and Rose is not a fitness trainer. This is a retail store filled with recreational marijuana in many forms — the kind you smoke, the kind you nibble, the kind you rub on your body — all legally sanctioned for sale by the state of Colorado for use within the state.
It’s what the Denver TV anchors call a "pot shop" and the state calls a "dispensary."
And Rose’s title is a derivative of the word “bartender,” his counterpart in the world of serving people who want to, frankly, get high.
With his long hair tied in a ponytail and his brightly colored tie-dyed shirt with a giant kitten face on the front, Rose looks like the offspring of the late-1960s hippies,...
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