The Dark and Dank Side of Denver Ghost Tour is the Most Creepy Fun You Can Have While Stoned

If you ever wanted to be that guy from Cabin in the Woods who keeps smoking weed throughout the entire horror movie, have I got the Halloween experience for you! Native Roots Cannabis Company, their partners at The Cannabis Experience, and the Dark Side of Denver Ghost Tours have teamed up bring you the Dark and Dank Side of Denver Cannabis Bus Ghost Tour.

Essentially, the experience consists of the already-existing Dark Side of Denver Ghost Tours, but you get to experience the ghost tour on the nation’s first fully-licensed cannabis consumption bus. The bus stops off first at Native Roots Dispensary, where you can shop for products and get some special goodies as part of the tour, then it’s off to explore the most haunted parts of Denver while you’re good and toasted.

For the inaugural voyage of this tour, they invited several members of the media to come out and experience what the tour has to offer. Our tour guide, Rachel Beckemeyer, had a lot of experience doing the Dark Side of Denver tours, but had never hosted a group that was stoned before. The bus, by law, has to keep the windows covered up, which left us wondering how we were going to see the haunted attractions. However, Rachel quickly assured us that the tour involves getting out and walking anyway.

So we piled into what some affectionately referred to as the Mystery Machine because of its hippy-style patterns on the walls (and the fact that we highly suspect the Scooby Gang were getting high in their van anyway) and headed out to explore the creepier side of the city. For those who don’t know, there’s tons of haunted attractions in Denver, even beyond the ones where the tour stops.

There were a few hiccups with the tour, most notably that the stop at Native Roots took a little bit longer than expected, forcing Rachel to try to condense the tour to fit it into the amount of time we had left. But honestly, I was having such a good time, I would have gladly stayed beyond the originally allotted time if that meant I got to witness the full tour. As it was, our tour only really contained two stops: Union Station and the Oxford Hotel, both of which are basically right next to each other. I didn’t ask if the tour normally has more stops than that, but Rachel has a number of great stories about both locations that it made both of them a lot of fun.

I’m not a full-on believer, but I consider myself open-minded to the possibility of the paranormal. While I had never been on a ghost tour before, I wondered if being high would make it more or less scary than a normal ghost tour, as I couldn’t be sure if the paranoia-inducing effects of cannabis or the calming effects of it would win out. Personally—and possibly because I was mostly sticking to hybrids and sativas—I found that being high made the whole thing creepier, but in a fun way, like a scary but fun dream that you want to go back to sleep to finish.

I kept hoping to have a supernatural experience on the tour and get a chance to witness one of the shadow people or some of the strange hauntings that Rachel described, but nothing out of the ordinary really occurred. There was an event being prepared for in one of the most haunted rooms on the tour, so perhaps the ghosts were just being polite and didn’t want to get in the way of the staff. Rachel did have some photos and videos of some pretty strange happenings that she was happy to show us.

While there were some kinks to work out, I still found the whole experience to be a lot of fun. Undoubtedly, once they’ve done this a few times, things will run more smoothly, and the whole experience will be exactly what they hoped it to be. But even the imperfect version of this tour is a spine-tinglingly exciting joy ride that should not be missed.

You can book your tour now here along with the other awesome tours that The Cannabis Experience offers you to take on their consumption bus.