Colorado Since Legal Weed, Seen From Seattle | Denver

0:00A: If you have some anxiety, weed can cause anxiety, but it can help it a little too.

0:05B: I’m curious your opinion on how Colorado has changed since weed was legalized here.

0:10A: You know, I came right before it was legalized. I moved here. So honestly, it’s been legal pretty much the whole time I’ve been here.

0:19B: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:19A: So --

0:20B: But how do you see it? You came here from somewhere where it’s not legal, right? Seattle.

0:22A: No, I came from Seattle. It was legal medically. So I did have my med card in Seattle before I came here. So similarly, yes, they’re very similar. Actually, Seattle didn’t even get their first dispensary like mainstream until a couple years after Colorado. Like they were kind of waiting to see how it went. So yeah, I had my med card in Seattle. It’s definitely different. That was always fun though. You had to have a med card, always easy to get there, you know. They do, um, because they didn’t really have dispensaries per se, so they do a lot of, uh, like, um, farmers markets like in a warehouse. Yeah, then people would set up --

0:57B: Coffee shops.

0:57A: This is where I -- yeah, exactly. And it’s It was kind of the first time I tried edibles and like tinctures, and they’d have rooms where you could smoke, and you -- everybody had samples, and you go in with your cash and your med card and kind of just shop. One day I came out, I -- God, I was so red. I was like, Carol, my best friend, you have to drive me.

1:17B: Oh yeah.

1:17A: I can’t drive. I don’t even know where we’re at right now. I was 2 blocks from home.

1:20B: That’s how high you were, huh?

1:22A: It was great. It’s been a while since I’ve been that high.

1:24B: That’s cool. I tried to make cannabutter once in college in a mason jar, and, uh, I, I like -- yeah, I don’t know.

1:31A: Interesting. Crockpot.

1:32B: Old crockpot. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was in a pot of boiling water, but I let all the water steep evaporate, and then the whole thing caught on fire.

1:39A: You were doing the -- your double broiler ran out of water.

1:43B: I woke up everybody in my house. They were all pissed. They’re like, oh, you have work today? It’s 5 in the morning. There’s fire trucks.

1:49A: Oh no.

1:51B: And they’re starting their summer internships.

1:52A: Whoops.

1:55B: Yeah, exactly. Maceo!

1:57A: Yeah, crockpots are a great thing, even in college.

2:00B: They don’t really catch fire if you kind of remember to add a lot of water. I don’t know what possessed me. Yeah, I had some water. I think I was drunk. We were playing beer pong. I was like, oh my gosh, wow. Wake and bake outside. Fire alarm. I’m like, why is the fire alarm? It’s like, oh.

2:13A: That’s great.

2:13B: It didn’t open though. It didn’t smell like weed when the firemen came, so that was good.

2:16A: So that’s good. That’s good. You have it contained.

2:20B: A whole lot of smoke, but it doesn’t smell like weed.

2:23A: Spurt pan, man.

2:25B: Beer legal.

2:26A: How you doing?

2:27B: Oh, that’s great.