While many of us will likely be sleeping in tomorrow, cannabis advocates will be up early (contrary to stereotype) to help inaugurate the newly legal marijuana market in Colorado. The first customer will be Sean Azzariti, an Iraq war veteran, who helped push last year’s legalization campaign and who has being speaking about the benefits of marijuana use for people with PTSD.
Along the path to legalization, we’ve been following a few of the key figures in the landmark effort to bring marijuana to the masses. In 2011, I profiled Ean Seeb, who co-owns a marijuana dispensary in Denver and also happens to hold a number of leadership positions within the Denver Jewish community. He was one of the planners of this year’s Heebonism, an annual Christmas Eve party for Members of the Tribe in Denver.