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Golden City Council is sniffing around the possibility of allowing recreational marijuana stores in the town of 21,000.
City staffers have been studying the potential impacts of retail marijuana sales since December, as first reported by the
Golden Transcript, and some councilmembers expect the issue to be raised officially in the next couple of months. Although not a lock, the possibility of recreational dispensaries coming to Golden is far stronger than it was seven years ago, when the first retail stores opened in Colorado.
Before a municipality in Colorado can allow recreational marijuana businesses, however, the local government must first approve them. Despite over 61 percent of Golden voters approving Amendment 64, which legalized recreational marijuana, in November 2012, Golden City Council instituted a moratorium on all recreational marijuana businesses in 2014, the same year that the adult-use industry went online in Colorado. That moratorium has stayed in place ever si