Denver, I love you. I feel like I donโ€™t 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, yโ€™know. Every time I visit it gets harder and harder to leave. And now with the nationโ€™s first business where it is legal to consume cannabis on-premiseโ€”well, almostโ€”I may just be trading in my Texas driverโ€™s 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 namedโ€ฆ wait for itโ€ฆ 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 nationโ€™s first on-site recreational cannabis consumption permit.

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But the Coffee Joint wonโ€™t 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 Yumaโ€”the dispensary next doorโ€”so you wonโ€™t have to go far.

And if weโ€™re being technical, you canโ€™t actually smoke here, because of the Colorado Clean Air Act. As store manager Meredith Wharton tells 5280, โ€œYou can vape your flower, you can dab your oil, and you can consume edibles. You just canโ€™t smoke in here.โ€

Entry into the Coffee Jointโ€”including a free cup of coffeeโ€”will 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

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