I was just glancing at a thread about Texas tourism ads and wondering why there were so many ads. And I started wondering about Colorado and whether their state tourism bureau had done anything to promote visiting to smoke dope. Have they, or any others for that matter, promoted pot tourism in other less fortunate states? 
Dude, relax. They’ll get around to it.
I hardly think they’d need to.
I’m sure they’ll hire the same company that does all those prostitute destination ads for Nevada.
Hey, that’s pretty much what the “What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas” campaign was all about – or so I like to think.
Does San Francisco or New York City need to run a zillion ads pitching them as tourist destinations? I don’t think so, but still they do it.
Colorado — The Passing Clouds State
Colorado — A Great State To Be In
It’s Always Tomorrow In Colorado !
Well to be serious, I think both the tourism bureau and the public at large would think it a little gauche and innapropriate. Tax payers in the state may want legal pot and tourists but they don’t necessarily want to be advertised as stoner’s paradise. I could see some quiet outreach to certain convention organizers and magazines but they aren’t going to blast it from the rooftops.
Colorado – the State Where You Can Be a Mile High – *Before *You Get to the Mountains!
The Altered State of Colorado!
Ad in High Times: Visit Colorado! You know why, don’t make us say it.
Colorado-It’s Always 4:20
“Denver? Dude, I like hardly even know her!”
Why would they need to?
See post #6.
I moved to Colorado in January, and I haven’t seen any local public promotion of the pot-tourism industry. However, tostino’s Pizza Rolls is having fun with the laws: they have a billboard that reminds you to stock up on Pizza Rolls “b4/20” (i.e. before 4/20, the number sign for smoking). There’s another sign that says that their pizza rolls are “better off baked.”
Other than that, there’s not much going on in terms of pot advertising. While there are a lot of dispensaries, they are generally low-key (you can’t see in the windows) and most identifiable by the green medical cross on their signage.
Well, considering Tourism Departments — not the sharpest pencils in the desk — have been able to persuade themselves Old People have lots of spare money, The Grey Dollar, and Homosexuals have lots of spare money, The Gay Dollar, I’m sure they can be cajoled into believing the nation’s weed-smokers have million on millions of high disposable income. The Ganja Dollar.
The number of people who 1) want to smoke pot, but 2) don’t because it’s illegal in their state, and 3) would be willing to go to another state to do so legally, must be pretty small.
There are many reasons marijuana should be legal, but increase tourism would be pretty down on the list. If marijuana was illegal where I lived, but legal in Colorado, I’d just keep smoking it quietly at home instead of getting on a plane to Denver.
Have you ever looked at the Rocky Mountains? I mean, really looked at them?