Denver business licensing officials blame the disappointing numbers on a lack of dispensaries adopting the service; Excise and Licenses stats show that just nine of the city’s 207 dispensaries, or 4 percent, currently offer delivery. That’s far fewer than the number of businesses currently permitted to deliver retail marijuana in Denver.
“There’s an imbalance between the number of transporters and the number of stores they’re able to partner with,” Abbey Borchers, a policy analyst for the City of Denver, said during a public meeting for marijuana business owners on July 19. “The takeaway is there has not been a great amount of participation of stores in delivery. Without stores to supply the product, transporters have nothing to deliver.”
Denver’s first marijuana delivery service, Doobba, shut down in June, citing poor sales and a lack of dispensary partners.
The city’s pot delivery system has two parts: transporters that move marijuana from dispensaries to customers, and the dispensaries providing the products. A dispensary must attain a permit from the city and partner with a transporter in order to offer delivery, and until 2024, transporters must qualify under local social equity requirements before…