Procuring weed on the 16th Street Mall was never a top-tier experience, whether you were buying it in the bathroom of the now-closed McDonald’s decades ago or at one of the overpriced cannabis dispensaries that began opening just over a decade ago. Today, it’s not much better.
There’s currently one dispensary on 16th Street — a basement spot that dubbed itself the “Apple Store of weed” before being sold to an out-of-state company, which has largely kept the same model — as well as two retail pot tourist traps located a block or two off it.
And once people get their weed, where are they supposed to smoke it?…