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Denver shuts down 26 legal pot businesses, makes arrests
AP ^ | 12/14/17

Posted on 12/14/2017 6:55:32 PM PST by x1stcav

DENVER (AP) — Denver authorities shut down 26 legal marijuana businesses Thursday and arrested 12 people suspected of illegal distribution of pot after a yearlong criminal investigation.

Potential charges relate to marijuana sales exceeding limits set in state law, police said. Colorado allows people 21 and older to possess an ounce or less of marijuana under a measure approved by voters in 2012.

The city department that regulates marijuana businesses issued the order to close the businesses based on the police investigation, spokesman Dan Rowland said. It marked the first time the city has issued an open-ended suspension to any legal marijuana business since sales began in 2014, he said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: cannabis; cannapiss; criminals; denver; marijuana; noselfcontrol; pot; potheads; reedermademess; reefermademess
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Like bummer, man!
1 posted on 12/14/2017 6:55:33 PM PST by x1stcav
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To: x1stcav

Wait ...

... What?


2 posted on 12/14/2017 6:56:49 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: x1stcav

Someone forgot to grease some bureaucrat palms.


3 posted on 12/14/2017 6:59:38 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: x1stcav

Totally unsuspected! Who could have possibly seen this coming?


4 posted on 12/14/2017 6:59:46 PM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: x1stcav
More Mother may I from the jack booted Nanny Fascists.

Just because it's been criminalized for a hundred years doesn't make it any more just, to go drug nazi on US citizens!

5 posted on 12/14/2017 6:59:55 PM PST by rawcatslyentist
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To: rawcatslyentist

Farr Out mann!


6 posted on 12/14/2017 7:01:06 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: x1stcav

The short term memory loss made them think selling pot was illegal.


7 posted on 12/14/2017 7:03:19 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: x1stcav
Same as you can not sell "growlers" in certain places. You will lose your license and go to jail.

People wanted it "legal and regulated" like alcohol. That is what they got.

8 posted on 12/14/2017 7:03:41 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: x1stcav

Cannabis are against the law of the United States.


9 posted on 12/14/2017 7:03:43 PM PST by sagar
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To: rawcatslyentist
Smoke some more, dude..!

Really!!

10 posted on 12/14/2017 7:05:37 PM PST by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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To: x1stcav



Druggies got to drug, pushers got to push.
11 posted on 12/14/2017 7:06:17 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: x1stcav

12 posted on 12/14/2017 7:09:06 PM PST by plain talk
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To: x1stcav

A windfall for the cannabis shops that obeyed the regulations.


13 posted on 12/14/2017 7:09:19 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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A windfall for the cannabis shops that obeyed the regulations.

You mean paid off the right public officials.

14 posted on 12/14/2017 7:11:33 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

No, I didn’t mean that. :-)


15 posted on 12/14/2017 7:12:16 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: TigersEye
A windfall for the cannabis shops that obeyed the regulations.

Yep.

When you choose to get into a heavily regulated business you can make a great deal of money but you have to be careful not to take short cuts.

You will be closely watched, they pay people to check up on you.

16 posted on 12/14/2017 7:14:37 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Rome2000

The task force coordinator released this statement-—

“It was carried out at 4:20 and was a joint effort to nip the problem in the bud, to weed out or blunt the chronic overproduction and gauge the nature of the problem.”


17 posted on 12/14/2017 7:15:19 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: sparklite2

Dave wasn’t there.


18 posted on 12/14/2017 7:16:25 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Professionalism in business may cost more in the short term
but it usually pays off in greater long term success.


19 posted on 12/14/2017 7:19:39 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: sparklite2

Tommy Chong meets Strawberry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zeV11QO854


20 posted on 12/14/2017 7:21:54 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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