NY Times reports on Colorado Symphony's "Classically Cannabis"

The New York Times covered the Colorado Symphony's controversial "Classically Cannabis" concert.

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The musicians stuck to the classics at the Colorado Symphony's first-ever "Classically Cannabis" fund-raiser on Friday night. They played Strauss and Wagner, not Marley and Garcia. Their only concessions to the evening's marijuana theme, it seemed, were the bright green ties they wore with their black suits.

"This is not some big ganja fest," said Justin Bartels, the principal trumpeter for the Denver-based symphony. "This is very respectable."

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