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Some Denver City Council candidates open to relaxed marijuana rules

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 05/04/2015 - 08:00

Sixteen months after Colorado launched legal recreational marijuana sales, the center of the burgeoning industry in Denver is asking to extend shops' evening closing hours and revisit the outright ban on public consumption.

And many City Council candidates in Tuesday's election are receptive — including several with a good shot of winning or proceeding to a runoff.

Industry concerns center on competing with pot shops in neighboring cities that have closing hours later than Denver's 7 p.m. cutoff for both recreational and medical stores. Some in the industry also want to provide tourists with safe, legal places to smoke or consume their purchases, since hotels typically don't allow it in rooms.

Some candidates' willingness to consider such concerns reflects an evolution in city politics, even if the industry-desired changes have yet to find favor with Mayor Michael Hancock.

"It's great that we seem to have a lot of candidates that...

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