A study of Colorado residents’ attitudes about cannabis tourism found that those who are “highly attached” to the state “held a positive image of their place, which in turn influence[s] their support of marijuana tourism.”
The difference in state and federal laws is also creating confusion for air travelers. Can they or can they not carry legal amounts through airports in states where adult use is legal? Well, once again, that depends. While Colorado law makes it illegal to carry at DIA, LAX has made it perfectly clear its passengers are welcome to travel with their legal amounts of personal cannabis.
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When marijuana was first legalized in Colorado, state and local tourism officials did their best to distance themselves from the industry, downplaying its role as a tourist draw in an obvious attempt to stay neutral and avoid turning off travelers opposed to cannabis.
But as more states legalize marijuana and its use becomes increasingly mainstream, it’s getting harder to ignore the opportunities legal marijuana offers the travel industry. And players around the country are looking at Colorado travel businesses who seized on cannabis opportunities as a model.
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One of the criticisms of the legal marijuana industry has been about the amount of energy required to power grow houses. But most agree that as cannabis becomes more mainstream, much of the growth will go back to nature, like the sustainable, organic operation outdoor cannabis farm, Pot Zero, in Eagle County.
Colorado Cannabis Tours is taking interested visitors up to farm throughout September so more people can learn how the owners, Rob and Linda Trotter, use their land and natural resources for a carbon free grow.
Take virtual tour of the nation’s first marijuana club with Colorado Public Radio. Besides sampling your purchase, you can watch TV, play foosball or attend a cannabis-infused yoga class. The shop’s biggest customers: tourists looking for a legal place to consume the marijuana they’ve bought before leaving town.
“Some of the tourists, they come in with their bags for DIA, stay in here, consume and go back to DIA, because they had a layover,” co-owner Rita Tslayuk says.
Denver is preparing for its annual 420 event. But with legal marijuana now a mainstay, organizers are trying to steer the focus away from smoking and politics to a festival celebrating cannabis culture.
“What happens at this bed and breakfast doesn’t happen anywhere else. … They go home and they tell their friends, ‘You can’t believe what I did for the last three days.”
~Former Wall Street Lawyer Joel Schneider,
who runs three Bud+Breakfast hotels in Colorado