By John Ingold | The Denver Post
One year after he became, unofficially, the first legal recreational marijuana customer in America, Sean Azzariti sits on a couch in Denver’s 3D Cannabis Center and looks up to see … himself.
The 4-foot-wide photo hanging over the couch shows Azzariti, an Iraq war veteran chosen for the ceremonial first purchase for his advocacy on post-traumatic stress disorder, cocooned by cameras on Jan. 1. The subsequent year — media requests, speaking gigs, advocacy awards, cannabis celebrity — washed by in what Azzariti calls “waves of awesomeness.”
“So, I have to ask,” a somewhat star-struck young guy says to Azzariti, nodding toward the picture. “Did you really say, ‘One marijuana, please?’ when you were at the counter?”
