Roger Cobb has spent his life in Denver, bouncing around different neighborhoods before coming to settle in Northeast Park Hill. When he rides his new motorcycle — named Purple Rain — around the city, he notices how community resources are distributed.

“If you cross (Quebec Street), there’s about six, seven, eight different pools over there,” Cobb said last week at the Northeast Park Hill Coalition’s June membership meeting. “We have, really, two.”

Celeste Leonard, 14, drops into the deep end of the pool from the slide at the Hiawatha Davis Jr. Recreation Center in Denver Friday, June 21, 2024. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)

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Marijuana regulations don’t seem overly complex

Re: “Colorado paved the way, and sky didn’t fall,” Dec. 31 news story

I read with interest the article about the 10-year wild ride of marijuana legalization and was intrigued by the comment by Truman Bradley, executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group, a business trade association.

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Colorado’s first legal cannabis party bus is preparing to roll up and roll out on the streets of Denver this week, offering shuttle services to and from the airport as well as curated tours of the city.

The Cannabis Experience will debut its 12-passenger bus, decorated with flowers and other hippie iconography on the exterior and interior, after a test run on Wednesday with friends and family members of owners Sarah Woodson and Terrence Hewing. But they’re already accepting reservations for those seeking elevated transportation.

Although other cannabis buses have operated in Colorado before, they weren’t technically legal and all of them shut down or were forced to close by authorities. The Cannabis Experience, on the other hand, has a state-issued marijuana hospitality permit along with a license from the city.

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