THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

It's not all boo and skittles in the showcase state for legal marijuana. While some places have it right, the majority of tourist places just don't know what to do.

Except he calls his a bud and breakfast.

Here guests pay up to $399 per night to stay in Schneider’s cannabis-friendly inn — where they’re treated with morning “wake and bake” sessions over a gourmet breakfast, where afternoon happy hours start at 4:20 and where turndown service means a silver platter filled with glasses of milk and plates of THC-infused cookies.“It’s like the Hotel California. You check in and you never check out. People want to stay. They really want to stay.” he said...

Spokesmen at both Visit Denver and Visit Seattle say that though marijuana is legal, they are less than eager to spend money on promoting marijuana tourism, especially when tourists can’t smoke marijuana in their hotel rooms.

“There’s a presumption that marijuana tourism is right at our doorstep and waiting to be tapped. There’s some challenges,” said David Blandford, vice president of communications for Visit Seattle. “It’s not a challenge of if we want to tap that market or not, but it’s a question of when we will be able to.”

Currently, he said, too many restrictions get in the way for tourists to be able to consume marijuana legally and safely...

Mainstreaming marijuana, though, isn’t something that can happen easily in Colorado or Washington as the current laws are written. Marijuana may be legal for adult consumption in those states, but it comes with caveats — no consumption in public, no impaired driving, no taking it over state lines.

But perhaps the biggest obstacle hindering the marijuana experiment in both states is location. Aside from homeowners who can smoke marijuana in their homes, where can people legally consume their legal products?

Tourists can’t smoke in their hotel rooms. Most renters can’t smoke in the houses or apartments they rent. You can’t smoke in a park or an alley or in your car. In Washington, business owners have tried to get creative, allowing pot eateries, bars and even tour buses, to no avail.

Nothing wrong with the concept, they just need to tweak the rules and regulations to fit the situation.