Smoke ’em if you got ’em. The gentrifying Highland neighborhood is getting a medical- marijuana dispensary that plans to open around Aug. 3 at 2000 W. 32nd Ave., kitty corner from the recently opened LoHi Steakbar.

The Releaf Center, owned and operated by Steven Sems rott, a medical-marijuana user himself as a result of scoliosis, will legally dispense up to 2 ounces of marijuana per person to patients who have a doctor’s permit.

Colorado voters decided to legalize medical marijuana in 2000. Since then, dispensaries have been popping up all over the state.

Last month, the New Options Wellness Clinic, a medical-marijuana dispensary, was robbed in daylight by four men who pretended to be registered medical-marijuana users, according to a police report. The men stole two 20-gallon tubs of medical marijuana, cash and surveillance equipment but were arrested shortly after the heist.

“I like the idea of helping people out,” said Semsrott, an unemployed aviation worker. “Our clientele will definitely be a wide variety of patients from cancer to muscle spasms.”

Semsrott said his store will likely be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. except Sundays. The opening of Maryjane’s Pizza, a delivery-only spot open from 11 p.m. to 4:20 a.m. daily across the street from the Releaf Center, is purely coincidental, Semsrott said.

Radio daze.

The Post’s own sports columnist Jim Armstrong and former KCNC-Channel 4 sports anchor Les Shapiro have teamed up for “The Score With Armstrong and Shapiro,” a sports-talk radio show from 6 to 10 a.m. weekdays on KCKK-1510 AM. The show debuted Monday.

Meanwhile, up the dial at KJFX-103.5 FM, Rick Lewis and Michael Floorwax of Lewis and Floorwax fame can now be heard from 6 to 10 a.m. weekdays on KDZA-107.9 FM in Colorado Springs and Pueblo. The simulcast takes place under a syndication agreement between the Clear Channel-owned stations.

Start spreading the news …

Nord strom will open a 39,000- square- foot Nordstrom Rack store in the vacant Circuit City building at East Florida Avenue and South Colorado Boulevard in the spring of 2010.

If you’re a Rack aficionado like me, I don’t have to tell you about the cut-price deals to be found there. The new Nordstrom Rack will be 2 miles from the Nordstrom store at Cherry Creek mall. It will be the third Rack in Colorado.

Eavesdropping.

A man at Elway’s Concerts on the Patio series:

“It’s been a good night. I’ve had three disbarred attorneys asking me for work.”

Penny Parker’s column appears Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Listen to her on the Caplis and Silverman radio show between 4 and 5 p.m. Fridays on KHOW-630 AM. Call her at 303-954-5224 or e-mail pparker@denverpost.com.