Gunnison encourages residents, visitors to ramp up pot use

(Tomichi-on-Thames  —  Oct 29, 2016)

In a radical departure from previous policies the City of Gunnison is actively encouraging citizens, tourists and college students here to “smoke more pot”. The gesture, denied by cold-footed bureaucrats here, is seen as a blatant attempt to keep all of the town’s marijuana dispensaries in business, at least until the end of the tax year.

As of late last night Gunnison currently licensed eight dispensaries in a community of roughly 6000. In addition Western State enrollment is almost 2800. That’s one dispensary for every 11,000 inhabitants. These statistics carry with them some heavy responsibility.

Civic liters, once hesitant to issue even one license for fear it would “send the wrong message to our children” now features what many see as a multitude of pot shops within the city limits. Whether or not the decision to allow so many marijuana businesses has anything to do with the fees collected from licenses was not known when this story was published.

High profile communities as far way as Humboldt State in California have registered shock at the development. College towns in states where pot is legal were supportive of Gunnison’s attempts to negotiate the confusion related the new industry.

“Sure we want to see all of the dispensaries flourish,” said one unconfirmed source at the city. “Unlike our track record with juicers we have not had any two-in-the-morning incidents with the potheads.  It’s all legal plus the cash is good.”

– by Pepper Salte

Next time: Is the marijuana glut threat to Colorado lifestyle?