DENVER (KDVR) — Since the implementation of recreational marijuana dispensaries after legalization, the industry has spread its roots in the Mile High City and is taking the next step.
Last year, Denver overhauled its marijuana regulations to include licenses for delivery and hospitality. As a result, you can now have marijuana delivered to your home, and some businesses are getting ready to roll out a new model: consuming cannabis in their store.
But a big part of that overhaul was to embed social equity into the application process.
“Since we opened up the applications for consumption licenses a couple months ago, we’ve seen three applications that have been submitted,” Executive Director of Denver Excise and Licenses Molly Duplechian said.
Tetra Lounge in Denver is one of the applicants entering the home stretch of the process. It needs to pass inspection before it can open its business for public consumption.
Duplechian said several other parties have reached out with interest in applying for a license in the city’s cannabis consumption program. The department’s focus will be routing its process in social equity.
“We’ve evolved, we’ve changed and we’ve identified this area where we can improve and do better,” Duplechian said.
According to Denver’s Cannabis Business and…
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DENVER (KDVR) — Since the implementation of recreational marijuana dispensaries after legalization, the industry has spread its roots in the Mile High City and is taking the next step.
Last year, Denver overhauled its marijuana regulations to include licenses for delivery and hospitality. As a result, you can now have marijuana delivered to your home, and some businesses are getting ready to roll out a new model: consuming cannabis in their store.
But a big part of that overhaul was to embed social equity into the application process.
“Since we opened up the applications for consumption licenses a couple months ago, we’ve seen three applications that have been submitted,” Executive Director of Denver Excise and Licenses Molly Duplechian said.
Tetra Lounge in Denver is one of the applicants entering the home stretch of the process. It needs to pass inspection before it can open its business for public consumption.
Duplechian said several other parties have reached out with interest in applying for a license in the city’s cannabis consumption program. The department’s focus will be routing its process in social equity.
“We’ve evolved, we’ve changed and we’ve identified this area where we can improve and do better,” Duplechian said.
According to Denver’s Cannabis Business and…
