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If some travel-industry entrepreneurs have their way, Colorado could become the Napa Valley of marijuana, said Sam Kamin and Joel Warner in Slate.com. Since Jan. 1, when the state became the first to allow the sale of recreational marijuana, cannabis connoisseurs have had their choice of 37 retail purveyors across the state, 18 of them in Denver. But a few startups are betting that some consumers crave more intimate contact with the growers who are nurturing and harvesting the weed on the shelves. My 420 Tours of Denver picks visitors up at the airport, shuttles them to pot-friendly hotels, provides all-access tours of local growing facilities, and even offers instruction on cooking with pot. The Valentine’s package, which starts at $2,300 a couple, features couple’s massages, a pair of ballet tickets, and a class on glass-blowing that provides lovers a chance to make their own bongs. Most activities end each day in time for a “happy hour” get together, which begins at 4:20 p.m.

Arizona’s quirkiest town

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Driving into Bisbee, Ariz., from the west, “it’s like passing into an alternate universe,” said Virginia Linn in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Emerging from a tunnel that burrows through the Mule Mountains, you suddenly enter a small hillside town built more than a century ago on money from copper and gold mining. Once the largest city between St. Louis and San Francisco, Bisbee hums along now with a population of about 6,000, many of them artists and aging hippies who began snatching up Victorian homes and turning their adopted home into a retirement haven and liberal enclave. The southernmost mile-high city in America, Bisbee is often 10 degrees cooler than Tucson and Phoenix. A sign on Main Street claims, “The Bisbee District Has the Best Year Round Climate on Earth.” It also has a lot of steps—enough that it holds a 1,000-step race every year on the stairs leading to the multiple tiers above the main business district.