kristi kelly
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Denver aims to double affordable-housing fund with pot-tax hike
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A Denver City Council committee on Wednesday advanced an affordable-housing plan that depends on raising the sales tax on recreational marijuana. Mayor Michael Hancock’s office said raising the city’s retail marijuana tax rate from 3.5 percent to 5.5 percent would allow Denver to increase its Affordable Housing Fund from $15 million to $30 million a…
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Colo.’s draft rules on cannabis inhalers, suppositories draw lively debate
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Colorado’s first step toward regulating some of the newest ways to ingest marijuana and cannabis got off to a lively start Monday when a working group of state regulators, industry professionals and community activists met in Golden to debate just how that would work. The group included regulators from the Colorado Department of Public Health…
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Despite claims, data show legalized marijuana has not increased crime rates
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions told reporters March 6 from the Department of Justice that he thinks there is “real violence” behind the use of recreational marijuana, but Colorado’s marijuana advocates and others across the country are using state and local-level data to push back on Trump administration claims that legalizing marijuana somehow increases crime rates.”…
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Denver pot stores cite safer roads, extra city revenue with more hours
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Denver’s marijuana dispensaries are seeking longer hours to have a level playing field with other city businesses and competitors in neighboring communities. City Council listened to mostly supportive arguments for extending the closing hours from 7 p.m. to midnight at a recent Special Issues Committee hearing. Currently, Denver’s hours of operation for both medical and…
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Colorado leaders unite in defense of the recreational marijuana industry
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With U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions hinting that the Trump administration might intensify the enforcement of federal marijuana laws, Colorado leaders from both sides of the aisle have come to the defense of the state’s legal marijuana industry in an uncommon show of solidarity in what many consider to be divisive political times of unmatched…
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Pot industry, state gear up to take on marijuana black and gray markets
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Cracking down on the black and “gray” marijuana markets in Colorado is needed and supported by both the state’s legal marijuana industry and state regulators, a Denver City Council committee was recently told. Kristi Kelly, interim executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group, told the Special Issues Committee that regulation of medical and recreational marijuana…
