Football’s in the Air, and in Denver, So Is the Sweet Smell of Herb

Marijuana Seeps Into Tailgating Rituals at Mile High in Colorado

By MICHAEL POWELL SEPT. 7, 2014

DENVER — Wait. Does that glittering stadium really look like a just-landed spaceship under a blueberry sky? Or is that just because, well, y’know. …

I’m standing in a parking lot overlooking the stadium known prosaically as Sports Authority and poetically as Mile High. That handle is metaphorically apt, too, as I’m engaged in the all-American sport of tailgating, with Corey and the Wookie and four friends.

They’ve got the requisite awning next to their pickup truck, a grill and sweet microbrews. And they have stuffed righteous-smelling marijuana — the sativa variety — in a pipe that is detailed with a neat little Denver Broncos insignia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/sports/football/marijuana-seeps-into-some-colorado-pre-game-rituals.html