Marijuana may be legal in Colorado now, but there are still a lot of wrinkles being ironed out—like whether or not it's kosher to smoke in your own home when it's visible on the street, whether you can puff on your own front porch and/ or near schools, public displays of marijuana in storefronts,
and more.
And now Denver's got a new "odor ordinance" that comes with "a potential $2,000 fine for anyone found guilty of polluting the atmosphere with high concentrations of cannabis."
Denver's stocking up on gadgets called the "nasal ranger" (or, if you're fancy, the "olfactometer"):
Anyone can buy the product, which looks largely like a portable telescope with a fitted-cup of your nose, but the Denver Police have opted for an item called the “Nasal Ranger” for about $1,500 a pop. However, the most sophisticated version of the nose telescope has the ability to record both the concentration of marijuana in the air, as well as the GPS coordinates of where the smell is emanating from—available for $3,500, making it the most expensive scent-detector on the market.
That means Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth's
"Smelloscope" a la
Futurama is now a real thing: