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June 22, 2016

Pot clubs get cool reception in Colorado

  • Allowing people to open private marijuana clubs has proven a harder sell than legalizing the drug in the first place.
  • By KRISTEN WYATT
    Associated Press

    DENVER — Legal marijuana is giving Colorado a stinky conundrum. Visitors can buy the drug, but they can't use it in public. Or in a rental car. Or in most hotel rooms.

    The result is something marijuana advocates and opponents feared — people toking up on sidewalks, in city parks and in alleys behind bars and restaurants — despite laws against doing so. And they're getting dinged with public marijuana consumption tickets.


     
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