Denver, I love you. I feel like I donโt tell you that enough, but I really, really do. Great coffee, amazing beer, your outdoor activities are top-notch, and all that cannabis. You just get me, yโknow. Every time I visit it gets harder and harder to leave. And now with the nationโs first business where it is legal to consume cannabis on-premiseโwell, almostโI may just be trading in my Texas driverโs license for a Colorado ID.
According to 5280, a social cannabis consumption license is on the verge of being issued to a Lincoln Park coffee shop namedโฆ wait for itโฆ the Coffee Joint. All the coffee shop needs to do is make it through a public hearing and pass an inspection and it will receive what is believed to be the nationโs first on-site recreational cannabis consumption permit.
But the Coffee Joint wonโt actually sell any cannabis; according to the ordinance passed in November of 2016 that allows for this sort of permit, all THC products have to be purchased elsewhere for on-site consumption. Luckily Coffee Joint co-owner Rita Tsalyuk also manages 1136 Yumaโthe dispensary next doorโso you wonโt have to go far.
And if weโre being technical, you canโt actually smoke here, because of the Colorado Clean Air Act. As store manager Meredith Wharton tells 5280, โYou can vape your flower, you can dab your oil, and you can consume edibles. You just canโt smoke in here.โ
Entry into the Coffee Jointโincluding a free cup of coffeeโwill cost a measly $5, but it is free with a purchase from 1136 Yuma. 5280 even notes that if you buy THC coffee from 1136 Yuma, the Coffee Joint will prepare it for you.
Should I ever be mysteriously disappeared, AWOL from all my agreed-upon responsibilities, with a coincidentally also-missing backpack as the only clue to what may or may not have happened, there’s a better than likely chance I’ve stolen myself away to Denver. The Coffee Joint would be a good place to begin the search.
Zac Cadwaladerย is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.ย Read more Zac Cadwaladerย on Sprudge.
*top image via the Coffee Joint Facebook page