Denver’s First-In-The-Nation Program For Social Marijuana Use At Businesses Is Officially Accepting Applications
Program allows pot use in designated areas and at licensed events
Denver’s voter-authorized program to allow social marijuana use at some businesses is ready for launch, city officials said Thursday as they announced they were ready to accept applications.
But the initial batch of license requests for the first-of-its-kind program may not come in immediately, given the extensive process required to prepare an application.
And the lead proponents of Initiative 300, which Denver voters passed last November, are still considering whether to sue over rules that they say impose too many hassles and make too many locations ineligible because they are within 1,000 feet of schools, alcohol, and drug treatment centers, and child-care facilities.
In an email Thursday to other members of a wide-ranging advisory committee that helped suggest rules, Emmett Reistroffer, the I-300 campaign manager, suggested the four-year pilot envisioned by the ballot measure “is set up to fail.”
But Denver Department of Excise and Licenses officials dispute that claim and say they’re now ready to begin accepting cannabis consumption establishment licenses.
Next month, the department plans to begin accepting applications for a second license type that applies to special events, which would not be allowed to be hosted on public property.
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