[420 Girl]

A flyer making the rounds in downtown Denver might catch the eye of a frugal medical marijuana patient. Under the words "Dispensing Alternative Healing since 1988," the flyer promises prices for 10 different strains starting at 35 cents per ounce.

Yikes! The great market crash predicted by Emerald Triangle growers is happening! Time to sell the UFO lights and restore your kid's closet back the way it was before you converted it into the neighborhood grow room.
But not so fast. The flyer is actually a clever promotion for a brewpub, not an MMJ dispensary. The little bud on the poster? Hops, not pot.

The advertisement is for the Wynkoop Brewing Co., and a hat tip to Allen St. Pierre of NORML, for noticing it and posting it on his blog. St. Pierre gives kudos to the brewery for "seizing upon the current cannabis reform zeitgeist in the country, and for not necessarily being threatened by the presence (and competition) of commercially available retail cannabis sales in the greater Denver-area."

But as Denverites know, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, who is running for Colorado governor, once owned the Wynkoop. St. Pierre can't help but point out that Hick isn't nearly as good a sport about medical marijuana as his former business.

"Wynkoop Brewery was founded by Denver's anti-cannabis mayor, John Hickenlooper, who, after Denver's voters overwhelmingly approved a 2005 voter initiative that would have reduced the penalty for possessing one ounce of cannabis from a $100 fine to zero, decided to stiff the voters and not implement their will. ... Voters there should remind Mr. Hickenlooper (and the media) of his supreme arrogance towards the will of voters and hypocrisy regarding his parochial views of alcohol use vs. cannabis use. Apparently, in his mind, it is ‘OK' to own and operate a drug-making business regarding a dangerous and addictive product like alcohol -- but not cannabis (which, unlike alcohol products, cannabis can't deliver lethal overdoses and does not cause any where near the same degree of physical and mental impairment, addiction, cravings and withdrawals)."


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