Budding entrepreneurs in Colorado are attempting to cash in on the state’s new marijuana laws by offering weed-themed tours to curious cannabis enthusiasts.
Highlife’s Timothy Vee recently told the Coloradoan that his company is getting requests from “a lot of old stoners and a lot of wealthy people” who want to take advantage of the new law, but “safely with a concierge.”
“Now the kids are gone, they’re 60 years old and they want to get high,” he told the paper.
To help with such, Vee’s company is offering packages intended to help tourists enjoy marijuana while under the supervision of someone relatively more familiar with recently signed laws that contrast heavily with federal legislation. Medical marijuana was approved by voters in Colorado back in 2000, but only last year did they agree to amend the state constitution to allow for regulations and rules for personal use, cultivation and selling weed. The first retail shops are expected to open on January 1, and Vee and others are prepared for a surge in business from tourists and other customers who want to carefully exercise their new-fangled right.
The US Department of Justice doesn’t feel similarly about the drug, however, and marijuana is still illegal as far as federal officials are concerned.
“We’re delving into truly uncharted territory here,” Summit Colorado County Sheriff John Minor told the Coloradoan. “We do have this misperception in Summit County where people have smoked in public, been charged, and were under the perception that’s a free-for-all.”
When the paper’s Trevor Hughes wrote about Highlife this week, he reported that tourists can write a check to Vee for $1,200 that will in turn get them a unique adventure that legally isn’t offered elsewhere in the US. For that price he will send a limo to a client’s hotel and then treat customers to a chauffeured ride to the region’s highly-hailed ski resorts, complete with snacks, soda and complimentary pot.