Marijuana: Annie's in Central City gets first recreational pot sales license anywhere

[GilpinGuy]

LINK (http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2013/11/marijuana_sales_license_annies_central_city.php)

We're so proud up here.

"Central City is used to making history. The Rush to the Rockies got its start in May 1859, when John Gregory made the first lode discovery on Clear Creek. The town sprang up right above that find and grew so fast that it almost became the state capitol; today it's home to the historic Teller House (http://www.westword.com/bestof/2004/award/best-reason-to-drive-to-central-city-38073/), Victorian buildings and casinos made possible by Colorado voters (http://www.westword.com/2004-12-16/news/paving-the-way/). And now Central City has made more history, as home to the first business granted a recreational marijuana retail sales license (http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/marijuana/) not just in Colorado, but the world."

[Irving]

I was just telling my wife that there would be a market up there.

[Great-Kazoo]

You have to stand in line, or they prepackage like King Soopers?

[Great-Kazoo]

I was just telling my wife that there would be a market up there.

There's a market everywhere.
However like the firearm industry the same naysayers are OUTRAGED over it. Hopefully the weed industry will wake up and realize, it isn't about firearms, but any personal freedom some folks just don't like, UNTIL it's been banished
http://www.denverpost.com/editorials/ci_24574789/making-colorados-marijuana-industry-toe-line

You can't any time you talk about money and profits, and dealing with a customer base and selling product. There are too many loopholes, too many ways to get around it. You just can't do it. ...

[Sawin]

How is this the first one in the world? I thought it was legal in various European countries?

[Great-Kazoo]

How is this the first one in the world? I thought it was legal in various European countries?

HEY MAN, DON'T HARSH THEIR MELLOW

[Sawin]

HEY MAN, DON'T HARSH THEIR MELLOW

my bad :)

[sniper7]

Several countries already allow it to be sold. Maybe the first in the us, except im guessing the native Americans or Mexicans had a cart with weed on it that they sold. They just didn't have a "government license"

[ChuckNorris]

License!? License!? We Don't Need NO Stinkin' License!

[waxthis]

When do you think the tent lines will begin to form?

[hatidua]

I'm apparently not hanging out in the right part of town as I don't encounter any more marijuana use now than I did 6-8 years ago. Seems like a lot of newspaper columnists have their panties in a wad about the stuff though...

[Irving]

My wife is dying to invest in weed, but I feel like the risk is still too great to back a business. It's one thing to lose everything on an investment, but another to end up in prison for it.

[Rucker61]

There's a market everywhere.
However like the firearm industry the same naysayers are OUTRAGED over it. Hopefully the weed industry will wake up and realize, it isn't about firearms, but any personal freedom some folks just don't like, UNTIL it's been banished
http://www.denverpost.com/editorials/ci_24574789/making-colorados-marijuana-industry-toe-line

You can't any time you talk about money and profits, and dealing with a customer base and selling product. There are too many loopholes, too many ways to get around it. You just can't do it. ...


Then there's this theory:http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2013/11/marijuana_dea_pot_raids_colorado_tony_montana.php

[Sawin]

I'm apparently not hanging out in the right part of town as I don't encounter any more marijuana use now than I did 6-8 years ago. Seems like a lot of newspaper columnists have their panties in a wad about the stuff though...

If I were to walk outside and across Canyon Blvd to the park, I can pretty much guarantee you that I'd smell pot. Not just a little whiff either. This was not the case last fall, or the past 5 years when I used to walk the creek path at lunch a lot... Occasionally you'd come across someone smoking dope under a bridge or opposite side of the creek, but they were always isolated incidents and the smoker would be shy about it. That is definitely not the case now. They huddle together in groups, sometimes upwards of 20+, smoking dope right in the green in front of the library, and don't give a care in the world who they're blowing smoke at... not only that, their behavior and volume is extremely indecent.

[Ah Pook]

Who wants to open a snack shop...? [Pop]

[Rucker61]

Who wants to open a snack shop...? [Pop]
I've got my hot chocolate chip cookie and ice cream delivery truck ready to go, just waiting on the stores to open.

[hatidua]

If I were to walk outside and across Canyon Blvd to the park, I can pretty much guarantee you that I'd smell pot. Not just a little whiff either. This was not the case last fall, or the past 5 years when I used to walk the creek path at lunch a lot... Occasionally you'd come across someone smoking dope under a bridge or opposite side of the creek, but they were always isolated incidents and the smoker would be shy about it. That is definitely not the case now. They huddle together in groups, sometimes upwards of 20+, smoking dope right in the green in front of the library, and don't give a care in the world who they're blowing smoke at... not only that, their behavior and volume is extremely indecent.

Therein lies the rub: I don't hang out with the homeless down there next to the creek. I don't do it now, didn't do it last year, won't do it next year.

[Great-Kazoo]

My wife is dying to invest in weed, but I feel like the risk is still too great to back a business. It's one thing to lose everything on an investment, but another to end up in prison for it.

You're young you'd get by, darlin.

The issue falls under the IRS "Ill-gotten gains" Having had the opportunity to "invest" the fall out not so much from the feds but the IRS a lawless agency, is the problem. They did the same thing in CA. Since the cities and state was non-compliant with the feds in came the IRS and away went everything.
Then there's the 2A issue.