Five Boulder medical marijuana dispensaries either have received local licenses allowing them to sell to the broader recreational market or on track to do so pending city building inspections. None of those businesses can open to public until they receive state licenses, which could take another month or more.
Two months after the largest federal raids ever on the Colorado medical-marijuana industry, many of the operators involved are back in business on a smaller scale and one has been denied his attempt to enter the state’s recreational marijuana industry.
In what may be music to the ears of Boulder County cannabis fans, the Nederland Board of Trustees approved the business license for Canary’s Song, a dispensary that will soon also become the county’s first recreational pot shop.
Cynthia Johnston, a legalization activist from Los Angeles staying with a cousin in Lafayette for the holidays, was the sixth person to buy legal recreational marijuana when it went on sale at 8 a.m.
Marijuana opened for business in Colorado on Jan. 1 — but not in Boulder County. More than a hundred state licenses for retail marijuana stores have been issued in Denver, but just one in all of Boulder County.
Six weeks before the nation’s first retail marijuana shops open in Colorado, federal authorities on Thursday raided more than a dozen Denver metro area marijuana facilities and two homes.
