The subtle normalizing of marijuana in Colorado

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Like many commuters in Denver’s city core, Marty Otañez can’t assist but smell the pot smoke as he rides to work along the Cherry Creek bike course downtown.

“A couple years ago it was just under the bridge at Colfax and Speer,” Otañez stated of the clouds emanating from public tokers. “Now it’s practically every 100 meters.”

Increased pot smoke swirling around city streets and parks is among the most recognizable effects of Modification 64– which legislated the leisure use and sale of marijuana in Colorado– specifically since public consumption remains illegal.

At performances, from Red Rocks Amphitheatre to the Pepsi Center, it’s something of a foregone conclusion, no matter how strongly the personnel attempts to avoid it. (Promoter AEG Live Rocky Mountains, which often books reveals at Red Rocks and the Pepsi Center, decreased demands for remark.)

But there are smaller, less in-your-face manner ins which demonstrate...

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