“There are a lot of people interested to see what these stores are all about,” said Brian Vicente, co-author of Colorado’s recreational-marijuana ballot measure and an attorney with Vicente Sederberg LLC, a Denver-based law firm representing the marijuana industry. “There will be pretty large lines for these facilities.”
Licenses for 136 marijuana stores, a majority in Denver, were mailed Dec. 23, the Colorado Revenue Department said in a statement. Recreational marijuana businesses can open only after receiving both a state and local license, said Julie Postlethwait, a spokeswoman for the Marijuana Enforcement Division.
Only existing medical-marijuana retailers can apply for the licenses until July 1, she said. In Denver, home to the state’s largest number of such dispensaries, that deadline extends through Jan. 1, 2016.
The city’s newly licensed shops feature names such as The Green Solution, The Healing House Denver and The Denver Kush Club, according to a map on the Denver city government’s website.
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