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Denver approves first social equity hospitality license for marijuana
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The Tetra Lounge in Downtown Denver is on track to become the city’s first social equity applicant approved for a marijuana hospitality establishment license, city officials announced Monday. Once Tetra completes required inspections, it will be cleared to open for business as a location where folks can legally consume marijuana in a public place now…
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Series: Is Colorado better off 5 years after legalizing marijuana?
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A billboard went up recently above the 16th Street Mall in Denver asking: “Are you better off than you were five years ago?” Five years ago, voters approved Colorado’s first-in-the-nation experiment to legalize marijuana. Twenty-nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical and/or recreational marijuana. But Colorado is still the canary in the…
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Colorado can handle marijuana regulation without federal meddling
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As a father of four young children, I have concerns about the prevalence of marijuana in our community. The subject has become a regular topic of conversation in our family several times a week and every one of our children knows the pungent stench of marijuana. In my five years as a state senator I…
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BIDLACK: Will of the people-ish
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Regular readers of my columns (and I want to thank both of you) may recall my previous ruminations on representation as well as on hypocrisy. On representation I mulled over whether an elected senator or congressperson should vote in accordance with the will of the people (the “delegate model” of doing things) or should vote…
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Lamborn alone among Colorado congressmen in opposing legalized marijuana
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Colorado’s congressional delegation continued their effort this week to block the federal government’s new crackdown on marijuana use and sales … except for one congressman. Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, is siding with the Justice Department as it seeks to prosecute marijuana offenses under federal law, regardless of whether state laws in Colorado or elsewhere…
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Colorado delegation plans to meet on bill to protect marijuana business
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WASHINGTON – Members of Colorado’s congressional delegation plan to meet Tuesday to discuss the possibility of legislation to protect the state’s marijuana laws and businesses. A spokesperson for Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, acknowledged the planned meeting to Colorado Politics but provided no additional details. “Rep. DeGette has been involved in bipartisan talks during the last…
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American support for marijuana legalization at all-time high
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Support for the legalization of marijuana has hit an all-time high, with a new Gallup Poll showing 64 percent of Americans now believe cannabis use should be legal. The rise in support comes as states like Colorado that have legalized marijuana are seeing job growth and other strong economic gains, while also proving that the…
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Marijuana legalization leader Mason Tvert leaving MPP for consulting firm
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Colorado marijuana legalization leader Mason Tvert is leaving his role with the Marijuana Policy Project on Friday to join the well-known Denver-based cannabis consulting firm VS Strategies. Tvert spent the last five years with MPP following the success of Amendment 64 in 2012, when Colorado voters approved legal retail marijuana with 55 percent of the…
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Strange bedfellows Coffman, DeGette fight feds’ marijuana meddling
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It’s a marriage made over marijuana; specifically, Colorado voters’ decision to legalize it in 2012, and the federal government’s seeming inability to accept it. Colorado U.S. Reps. Mike Coffman, the Aurora Republican, and Diana DeGette, the Denver Democrat, are again joining forces to push back at Donald Trump over pot just as they did against Barack Obama, reports Denverite’s…
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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.”…
