With their Victorian facade they may look like normal B&Bs, but these guest houses are a stoner's haven

Welcome to the Bud & Breakfast - the world's only cannabis themed hotel chain.

With their Victorian facade they may look like normal B&Bs, but these guesthouses across two venues Colorado, are a stoner's haven.

Both offer a Wake & Bake breakfast which, along with your morning coffee and croissants, come complete with an energetic hit of Sativa strain marijuana.

Everything is geared around the cannabis culture, including marijuana healing massages.

Sixteen months after Colorado launched legal recreational marijuana sales, the center of the burgeoning industry in Denver is asking to extend shops' evening closing hours and revisit the outright ban on public consumption.

And many City Council candidates in Tuesday's election are receptive — including several with a good shot of winning or proceeding to a runoff.

Industry concerns center on competing with pot shops in neighboring cities that have closing hours later than Denver's 7 p.m. cutoff for both recreational and medical stores. Some in the industry also want to provide tourists with safe, legal places to smoke or consume their purchases, since hotels typically don't allow it in rooms.

The state of Colorado legalized recreational marijuana a year and a half ago. And those in the industry there say it is already showing dividends in terms of tourism.

"Business Insider just named Colorado the fastest growing economy in the country. They say we are number one out of 50 states!" says Michael Elliott with the Marijuana Industries Group in Denver. His groups is kind of like the Chamber of Commerce for marijuana-related industries there. "We see this all helping fill up hotels and cut unemployment. Our unemployment right now is at 4%."

Ashley Kilroy with the Marijuana Policy for the City of Denver would agree that tourism is up...but says you can't attribute it all to pot.

DENVER -- When 8 News NOW tagged along with Nevada lawmakers on a fact-finding trip to explore Colorado's regulated marijuana industry, the blossoming economy for both recreational and medicinal weed wasn't the only thing that stood out.

So, too, were the problems emerging in Denver, the Mile High City that is home to 200 marijuana dispensaries. Those outlets create quite the opportunity for criminals.

"The Denver police will tell you that really, any high cash business is often times a target for crime,” said Ashley Kilroy, Denver's executive director for marijuana policy.

DENVER (CBS4)– State lawmakers began a debate on Friday over whether to allow children to bring medical marijuana to school.

The bill passed out of committee with a unanimous vote. It went to the state House floor for debate on Friday evening. It was given initial approval and needs one more vote before heading to the state Senate.

The bill is designed to help the nearly 500 children who use medical marijuana for debilitating conditions like seizures and muscle spasms. Many of those children have moved to Colorado with their families specifically to have access to medical marijuana.

Those children take a special strain that is low in THC but high in cannabinoids, what is believed to help relieve their symptoms.

Cannabis aficionados are often fans of a solid play on words or well-placed pun — something that even applies to selecting the right stock symbol apparently.

New edibles company Nutritional High, which will soon sell its products in Colorado and Illinois, just went public in America via the stock symbol SPLIF. So while more established companies have their sly nods embedded in their stock symbols — Anheuser-Busch InBev’s BUD, Harley-Davidson’s HOG and Southwest Airline’s LUV — this little cannabis company rooted in Denver and Toronto has SPLIF marking its pot stocks involvement.

From the word’s entry in The Modern Cannabis Lexicon: “Spliff — A combination of tobacco and marijuana rolled together, often in Europe, that can at times be a cone shape.”

When Colorado legalized recreational marijuana, we started getting calls from local companies wanting to lease equipment as we appear high in the search engines for equipment leasing. I immediately realized that there was an underserved industry that could not get banks to even take their money, let alone lend them with the capital they needed to grow. So, I started working with some of these businesses that had the characteristics that we were looking for to get them the funding that they were seeking. We added working capital and real estate loans to our service offerings and through the syndication partners that we work with, we can now provide the full spectrum of debt based financing.

Quotations can connect you to wisdom from the past that you can apply to the present and the future. Many of the legal marijuana industry’s key players have already amassed vital wisdom during the industry’s fledgling years. At Marijuana Investor Summit, several of these key players shared their insight with attendees. Because their knowledge is a valuable resource for those looking to enter the industry, here are seven notable quotations captured at MJIS:

Lawmakers in Washington D.C. want marijuana-related business to have legitimate bank accounts and end cash-only businesses where they have to stuff earnings in their mattresses.

Today, U.S. Reps. Perlmutter, D-Colorado, and Denny Heck, D-Washington, along with a bipartisan group of 16 other Republicans and Democrats, re-introduced H.R. 2076, the Marijuana Business Access to Banking Act of 2015. They said it's an effort to resolve the banking crisis marijuana-related businesses are facing.

A friend of mine said “only big cities have billboard fights.”

Denver, welcome to the big time.

Cheba Hut (which opened just a few weeks ago at Colfax and Washington) wasted no time staking out its territory by poking fun at neighbor Natural Grocers’ anti-GMO billboard.

The Fort Collins-based sandwich chain is no stranger to drug references (see its name, marketing materials, employee T-shirts and menu for more examples), or using their marquee as a platform for humor.

During the renovation of the new location (formerly a bodega, which according to former Cap Hill resident Dan Schneider was an Everyday for years), the sign read “THIS S**T IS TAKING FOREVER” for about 12 hours before being replaced with the more family-friendly “SO CLOSE YOU CAN SMELL IT.”