Pubdate: Wed, 23 Oct 2013
Source: Denver Post (CO)
Copyright: 2013 Longmont Times-Call
Contact:  http://www.denverpost.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/122
Author: John Fryar, Longmont Times-Call

BOULDER OPENS POT DOOR

Medical Marijuana Businesses in the County Can Expand into the 
Recreational-Use Marketplace.

Boulder - Boulder County commissioners Tuesday opened the door to 
allowing existing medical marijuana businesses to expand into the 
recreational marijuana marketplace.

Under a licensing measure approved by Commissioners Cindy Domenico, 
Deb Gardner and Elise Jones, medical marijuana facilities in the 
county's unincorporated areas would be eligible to seek county 
licenses to grow, manufacture, test, store and sell marijuana and 
marijuana products for recreational use.

Boulder County is to begin accepting and processing recreational 
marijuana license applications Dec. 9.

However, only those establishments that have county medical marijuana 
licenses or that had applied for such licenses as of Oct. 1 can begin 
applying for Boulder County recreational marijuana licenses. Any 
other would-be recreational marijuana businesses would have to wait 
until at least Jan. 1, 2015, to start applying for county 
recreational marijuana licenses.

Jones said the new regulations will allow Boulder County to move 
forward with carrying out the will of the majority of Colorado and 
Boulder County voters who approved Amendment 64, the state 
constitutional amendment that legalized the use and possession of 
small amounts of marijuana by adults over the age of 21, and that the 
county rules "will do so in a way that's safe for our children."

The regulations include a number of provisions that staff said are 
intended to prevent or discourage youths' purchases of marijuana. 
That includes a prohibition for anyone under age 21 from being inside 
any retail marijuana store and would require that recreational 
marijuana buyers' receipts carry notices stating that it's illegal to 
transfer or sell marijuana to anyone under 21.
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