Denver regulators have updated their proposed changes to the city s marijuana code, and the rewrites include revisions to several suggested social equity license measures.
On March 2, a Denver City Council committee is expected to begin considering new forms of marijuana businesses, including delivery and hospitality services, as well as changes to pot advertising and licensing structure, according to the Department of Excise and Licenses. In December, after working through the year with an advisory board, the department released two draft proposals; among other things, it suggested that the city opt into marijuana delivery, hospitality and social equity measures that would reserve business licenses for entrepreneurs from low-income communities or who were impacted by the War on Drugs.
The Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division is recalling a batch of edibles but not over pesticides, mold, heavy metals or other potential toxins usually responsible for marijuana recalls. No, this batch of pot-infused goodies is getting the hook for being too strong.
In a February 10 safety advisory issued with the state Department of Public Health and Environment, the MED announced that Incredibles, a popular edibles brand owned under marijuana manufacturing company Medically Correct, had incorrectly packaged a batch of Black Cherry CBD chocolate bars. The bars had twice the amount of THC and CBD than indicated by the brand, according to the MED, prompting the voluntary recall.
Scammers are going after marijuana businesses in Colorado, posing as an array of authority figures and colleagues while targeting employees in an effort to steal cash.
Stephanie Hull, director of operations for Rocky Road Remedies, says that con artists have contacted employees at two stores numerous times, presenting themselves as higher management, product vendors, utility providers and even state Marijuana Enforcement Division inspectors, all in an effort to persuade store staffers to drop off or wire thousands of dollars in cash. Rocky Road has been experiencing regular scam attempts since November, she notes, and it s not alone.
The Denver Police Department sent an alert to local marijuana business owners last October, warning of texting scams aimed at the industry. The fraudsters didn t go away, though, and the MED issued its own statewide memo about a month later. On January 14, the MED sent out the same memo, but with a new message in bold at the top: Since this bulletin w
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