Coloradans found many ways to bide their time during the COVID-19 pandemic: exploring the mountains, taking up baking, learning to roller skate, adopting dogs, and, yes, getting high. Perhaps not surprisingly, the mind-altering, stress-relieving, and boredom-busting qualities of cannabis proved even more enticing to locals in 2020, at least according to Colorado Department of Revenue data that shows from January to October alone, potheads spent more money on marijuana ($1,829,603,225) than they did in all of 2019.
That was a relief for people like Christopher York, the general manager of retail operations at Denver’s Verde Natural marijuana dispensary. “During the initial lockdown, we were incredibly stressed out here,” he says, “but our revenue and traffic shot through the roof.” In March as people prepared to hunker down for the foreseeable future and stocked up on, um,
As restaurants around Colorado continue going back to the drawing board in the face of COVID-19 restrictions, the Wild Corgi Pub picked an easy new target: deep-fried nostalgia.
Recognizing the many stoned, hungry potential customers in the Capitol Hill neighborhood late at night, the Corgi has been selling stoner packages to delivery and takeout customers, pairing carnival, pub and childhood favorites into $20 delivery orders. The packages feature combinations of such items as fried cheese curds, churros, fried Snickers, smoked wings, tater-tot nachos, fried pickles and more, and each order comes with both a Capri Sun and a Hi-C juice box.