This Ranch Wants to Set a New Standard for Marijuana Tourism

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The Colorado Cannabis Ranch is a lot like a vineyard: you can tour the grounds, take in the views, enjoy a farm-to-table meal, and maybe even hear some live music. But, unlike a winery, you can also step into the on-site dispensary to buy a little of the green stuff.

Colorado’s first “weedery” is set to open in Denver next fall, cashing in on the growing industry of “weed tourism." The $35 million project is headed by Christian Hageseth, the founder of the Green Man Cannabis (a High-Times award winning grower), and author of Big Weed: An Entrepreneur’s High Stakes Adventures in the Budding Legal Marijuana Business. In addition to an amphitheater, restaurant, and dispensary, it will offer a grow tour designed to demystify some of the unknowns about the recreational pot industry.

“Why open a ‘weedery’? The first part of that answer is: because we can,” said Hageseth. “It’s legal, it’s unique, and we feel compelled to...

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