Warm up with friends during the dark days of winter at 420 events and parties.

On Feb. 6, celebrate Bob Marley’s birthday at Cervantes. Valentine-themed cannabis events heat up Denver for singles and couples. Singles can jump on the Reels on Wheels bus with comedians lampooning a cult classic movie. Couples can speed through one of three sushi-and-joint-rolling dinners on Valentine’s Day at Green Labs. Lots of comedy shows and art classes throughout the month too.

Plenty of fun to keep you in good spirits during the cold month of February! Find those 420-friendly events — and more than 50 others — in the listings below.

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The Colorado experiment in legal marijuana is being watched around the country. That’s hardly surprising. The state, being the first in the country to legalize marijuana, is setting the standard for the management and control of this social experiment.

It’s not an easy task, and it will take time and many false starts and failures to create a smooth, reliable system with which to administer and manage the legal sale and use of marijuana.

One can argue that it was a bad decision, but the fact is voters of Colorado said marijuana use will be legal in this state.

DENVER -- Colorado's restrictions on marijuana advertising are aimed at protecting impressionable children. A local man said the laws are failing and the loopholes are easy to work around.

Greenfield is now serving dabble extracts,” Scott Carlson, of Aurora, reads a text message his wife received more than a month ago.

“We have two grams of pure fire wax $45,” he reads from his phone.

He said he was surprised to learn it came from a Denver-based marijuana shop they've never been to.

“We don`t know how they got the number,” he said.

Carlson and his wife replied to the message, STOP, as instructed in the text to be taken off the mass text database.

As snow began to fall outside, Deb Button snuggled up on her couch, fired up a joint and spoke of the nature of Christ.

"Even if Jesus didn't smoke weed, he'd still be a stoner," she said, exhaling a white cloud.

Her kitten sniffed the air curiously.

"Jesus was peaceful and loving. He went from house to house and was always accepted," she explained. "Only a stoner could do that."

Bill would create a list of acceptable products for growers to use

We’re talking about the ways states can get marijuana legalized; new developments in the push for social pot use in Colorado; and the Women Grow Leadership Summit 2016 that’s happening in Denver Feb. 3-5. Another burning question: Is Colorado at risk of losing its place as the national leader in cannabis?

Seeking a haven in Colorado's legal marijuana marketplace, illegal drug traffickers are growing weed among the state's sanctioned pot warehouses and farms, then covertly shipping it elsewhere and pocketing millions of dollars from the sale, according to law enforcement officials and court records consulted by The Associated Press.

“I never lie to my son,” insists Diane Fornbacher. And for the long-time cannabis activist and mother living in the town of Collingswood, New Jersey, that means telling the truth about the world’s most versatile plant, to her children as well as the world.

Thus, Fornbacher’s son, now 10-years-old, saw everything.

“He sees that I have legal hemp products in my house,” says the devoted mother.

Something's rotten in Denver, and it's not the pungent stench of burnt cannabis filling the air. As Colorado's legal weed party barrels full tilt into its third year, the laws governing the state's medical and recreational marijuana businesses still haven't reckoned with the ugly racial disparities at their core.

There is now a stronger arsenal available to those states working to bring down the scourge of marijuana prohibition in their neck of the woods. Earlier last week, a federal judge dismissed the charges against Pueblo County and a legion of Colorado officials in a lawsuit suggesting that marijuana legalization violated a number of statutes overseen by the thugs in the District of Columbia.

Although the case does not appear to have national implications, the outcome should provide some level of solace for other regions of the United States wishing to reform their pot laws without the risk of being litigiously accosted by a ministry of naysayers.