Pot draws homeless to Colorado in search of work

“There’s an enormous migration, even a homeless movement, so to speak,” David Spencer, a homeless man from Tennessee, said. “I figured this would be a good place to start over.”

While shelters across the metro area are willing to open their doors, they’re quickly running out of room.

“We were averaging 190 (homeless) last year. We’re now averaging 345 a night,” Murray Flagg of the Salvation Army said.