Denver drops marijuana from county fair
State lawmakers who hoped to bring marijuana sales under the authority of a centralized state commission plan to scrap their bill in the final days of the legislative session.(Photo: KUSA)
DENVER (AP) - The Denver County Fair is dropping marijuana exhibits from next month's event, a year after some people said they were unwittingly served pot-infused chocolate in the fair's "Pot Pavilion."
The organizer of the county fair insists that the fair is dropping marijuana not because of that incident but because marijuana-related vendor sales were slow. Dana Cain says that Denver has so many marijuana-related festivals that the drug has "become kind of old hat."
The fair last year displayed no actual marijuana, with growers entering pictures of plants for competition. Vendors were forbidden from giving away or selling pot, but more than a dozen attendees filed suit, saying they were given weed-infused chocolates.
They sued a dispensary that...
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