Author: Luke Niforatos
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Where is legislature’s high-potency pot report? | PODIUM
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Luke Niforatos Two years ago, crowds of parents traveled from across the state to share heartbreaking stories of how high-potency marijuana had inflicted loss and hardship on their children. In direct response, the General Assembly passed HB1317, which funded a council to study the risks of these extreme products. The council was also tasked with…
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OPINION | End Denver’s drive-through, walk-up pot sales
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Luke Niforatos Denver City Council is considering making their COVID-19-related regulatory exceptions for the marijuana industry permanent. Primarily this would mean allowing drive-through and walk-up window purchasing of today’s highly potent weed products – both drive-through and walk-up sales were illegal as a part of prior health restrictions. It is apropos we are discussing this…
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OPINION | Despite COVID’s threat, Polis, Hancock capitulate to the pot lobby
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Luke Niforatos From my home in Denver, the only three businesses I can patronize during “shelter in place” policies are a pot shop, a liquor store or a grocery store – and one of these does not go with the rest. The glaring problem with designating marijuana shops as “essential” may have been lost on our…
