Application fees range from $1,000 for a hospitality business to $5,000 for a retail hospitality and sales operation. The flipside of allowing anyone to apply for a license is that the state has granted ample discretion to individual municipalities, allowing them to decide where and how these new businesses operate, if at all. Officials in Denver and other cities have not yet declared overarching stances on the issue, but the laws are likely to encourage a new green rush - once businesses meet certain standards.
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1, House Bill 1230 will allow two entirely new types of businesses in Colorado: tasting rooms that can sell cannabis flower and cannabis products, and “marijuana hospitality establishments,” which can’t sell cannabis on-site but allow full use of the plant (including on tour buses). Richardson/The Denver Post)īut even as Benjamin looks to his next experiment - a tea house-style partnership with The Joint dispensary, in which a purchase at The Joint covers Tetra’s membership fee - the laws that govern social cannabis use are about to change again. The lounge is set up as a private club and charges a membership of $20 per person, though price can depend on chosen amenities. Izzy Arellano, general manager, left, and Owner Dewayne Benjamin, right, work in the Tetra Private Lounge and Garden in Denver on November 27, 2019. “Its 70% tourists with one-day and three-day memberships, and 30% regular monthly members,” he said. Tetra sidesteps 2006’s Colorado Indoor Clean Air Act, which banned smoking in most public, indoor spaces, by acting as a private club that sells daily memberships for $20 a pop (or $60 per month).īenjamin said he’s sold about 12,000 memberships since Tetra first opened nearly two years ago.
In that way, Tetra is a synthesis of old and new pot culture, combining the bong rips and couch-locked diversions of old with the chic, discerning and proudly public persona of contemporary cannabis. “But it’s obviously more social than that, and very safe.”
“The vibe is supposed to be more like your initial cannabis interaction, where the first time you smoked weed was in your friend’s basement or garage,” said owner Dewayne Benjamin, who opened Tetra in February 2018. Wednesday, August 10th 2022 Home Page Close Menu
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