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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Denver City Council OKs 120-day moratorium on new marijuana players 🌿Denver City Council OKs 120-day moratorium on new marijuana players
Extended restriction on recreational market and new ban on medical marijuana applications are seen as "transition phase"
In this Aug. 25, 2014 photo, marijuana store Denver Relief co-owner Kayvan Khalatbari, right, talks with his employee Jeff Botkin. (Brennan Linsley, Associated Press)
A shortened four-month expanded moratorium on new players in Denver's legal marijuana markets won easy approval Monday night from the City Council.
After longer discussions in a committee late last month, the council passed the ordinance changes quietly as part of a block vote.
The city's existing two-year moratorium — set to expire Jan. 1 — has allowed only existing medical marijuana license holders to open recreational dispensaries, grow houses or edible manufacturers. That restriction was aimed at preventing the newly legalized recreational pot market from being flooded by newcomers when retail sales began in 2014....
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