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    By Patricia Calhoun Tue., Nov. 19 2013 at 4:20 PM


    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 Opera House, Victorian buildings and casinos made possible by Colorado voters. And now Central City has made more history, as home to the first business granted a recreational marijuana retail sales license not just in Colorado, but the world.

    Annie's, the recipient of the license, is housed in a historic building at 135 Nevada Street that dates back to 1864, was gutted by the fire of 1874, then was rebuilt. Over the years, it's been everything from a saloon to a garage to a tourist-trap jail exhibit. In 1992, it became the first place to be granted a casino license in Colorado: for Annie Oakley's Casino. (There's no evidence that the famous sharpshooter ever set foot in the structure, although her mentor, Buffalo Bill, did put on a show in the Teller Opera House -- so it's possible that Annie Oakley at least saw Central City.)

    Like so many of the mom-and-pop casinos that opened at the start of gambling, Annie Oakley's closed when bigger casinos moved into town. The spot then reopened as Annie Oakley's Emporium, a convenience store. And it became a lot more convenient a few years ago, when it started stocking medical marijuana along with groceries and liquor.


    This past April, the business was sold to Strainwise, which now has eight dispensaries in Colorado, with locations in Denver, Idaho Springs and Wheat Ridge as well as Annie's. The plan is for all eight to get retail licenses, so that they can sell recreational marijuana as well as medical marijuana, explains Strainwises's Erin Phillips.

    One of the Denver dispensaries, the Grove, was the first to have a recreational-sales hearing in Denver, she notes. (Under Colorado rules, a local hearing comes after the state has signed off on a recreational sales license application -- for which only approved MMJ facilities can currently apply.) And yesterday, three of the five Strainwise centers in Denver were all approved for their recreational sales licenses.

    But by then, Annie's already had its license -- even if it can't sell recreational pot until January 1. Central City had nabbed another historic first by "processing it through a lot faster," says Phillips.

    Then again, the Central City chief of police, who delivered that first recreational marijuana sales license, didn't have far to go: The police station shares a wall with Annie's.

    "It's the same old bureaucratic piece of paper," Phillips says of this first license. "But we might put it in a fancy frame."
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    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...


    To us, it is the BEAST.

  • #2
    It's a grand day in AMERICA.
    It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
    RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O

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    • #3
      Hell yeah!
      "I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
      'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburger

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      • #4
        Pot is stupid.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
          Pot is stupid.
          Today in opinions that don't surprise...
          "I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
          'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburger

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          • #6
            Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
            Pot is stupid.
            Pot isn't stupid. It's a plant. Recreational pot users generally are stupid though.
            I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
            For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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            • #7
              Central City, Colorado
              “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
              - John 13:34-35 (NRSV)

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              • #8
                striking a blow for freedom.
                "The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.

                "The most obvious predicition about the future is that it will be mostly like the past" - Alain de Botton

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by DinoDoc View Post
                  Pot isn't stupid. It's a plant. Recreational pot users generally are stupid though.
                  Irrelevant. Most people are generally stupid.
                  To us, it is the BEAST.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by regexcellent View Post
                    Pot is stupid.
                    Like alcohol only it kills fewer people.

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                    • #11
                      FWIW I don't drink either.

                      And for the pedants out there I'll clarify: smoking pot is stupid.

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                      • #12
                        I'd tell Reg that weed makes food taste better, but I don't think he knows what taste is.
                        John Brown did nothing wrong.

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                        • #13
                          Reg had fun once. He didn't like it.
                          To us, it is the BEAST.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by C0ckney View Post
                            striking a puff-puff-pass for freedom.
                            .
                            Pool Manager - Lombardi Handicappers League - An NFL Pick 'Em Pool

                            https://youtu.be/HLNhPMQnWu4

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Felch View Post
                              I'd tell Reg that weed makes food taste better, but I don't think he knows what taste is.
                              It makes this Papa Johns taste like Ray's
                              "I hope I get to punch you in the face one day" - MRT144, Imran Siddiqui
                              'I'm fairly certain that a ban on me punching you in the face is not a "right" worth respecting." - loinburger

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