{"id":1304379,"date":"2019-02-26T16:20:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T23:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/?p=449160"},"modified":"2019-02-26T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T23:20:31","slug":"denver-just-made-a-big-change-on-social-use-cannabis-it-will-be-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/denver-just-made-a-big-change-on-social-use-cannabis-it-will-be-permanent\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver just made a big change on social-use cannabis: It will be permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the clouds over Denver&#8217;s marijuana hospitality businesses is about to go away.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, the Denver City Council decided in a 10-1 vote that the city should permanently allow &#8220;social&#8221; cannabis use at certain businesses in the city. Until now, the city&#8217;s social-use laws were scheduled to expire at the end of 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The change is meant to give some stability to businesses where people can vaporize or eat marijuana legally.<\/p>\n<p>The social-use law approved by voters in 2016 included a four-year &#8220;sunset&#8221; date. But the industry has been slow to develop since then. So far, only two businesses have won a social-use license: a coffee shop in a strip mall and a new lounge on Broadway, which was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/02\/25\/social-marijuana-vape-play-denver-closed\/\">recently closed and posted for sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/02\/25\/denver-council-social-use-cannabis-permanent\/\">The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaildaily.com\/news\/denver-just-made-a-big-change-on-social-use-cannabis-it-will-be-permanent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Vail Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the clouds over Denver&#8217;s marijuana hospitality businesses is about to go away. On Monday night, the Denver City Council decided in a 10-1 vote that the city should permanently allow &#8220;social&#8221; cannabis use at certain businesses in the city. Until now, the city&#8217;s social-use laws were scheduled to expire at the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1304379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 02:27:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}