Remember when Denver panicked during a very short prohibition on alcohol and marijuana two years ago? Revisit that time in this blast from the past.
, speaking over another reporter, given the urgency of my query. “Um, so dispensaries and liquor stores, are they considered essential, or are they going to be closed?”“Well, as far as the liquor store [is] concerned, yes, very essential,” Hancock said, chuckling. “Um, but I’m looking over at our city attorney — the liquor stores and dispensaries — Marley, you want to come up? But I think we’ve allowed them to continue operating, particularly for the medical marijuana.”“Great question.
The town was filled with similar examples of prohibition madness as Denver residents rushed to beat the liquor and weed apocalypse. Social worker Katie Calhoun had serious concerns about the policy. “My first thought was people with alcohol-use disorder were either going to die or bog down emergency departments at a time when they needed more capacity,” she recalls.
, which has a location at 1 Broadway. “We took it in stride because we knew that if we were going to be closed down, we wanted to be able to take care of all the people we could.”“They were definitely maxing their limit every time, consistently,” Elliott recalls. “Buying an ounce of flower or mix-and-match of flower and edibles. Concentrates. They were really going for it full force with getting their legal limit.
But when Bordovsky spoke with state officials while Denver was working on its order, they said they didn’t view liquor stores and pot shops as essential businesses, she recalls.Bordovsky, Salazar and other Denver officials debated whether to include liquor stores and dispensaries in the essential category until just before the press conference, Bordovsky recalls. But they didn’t prep Hancock for any questions about alcohol or cannabis sales.
“I was frantically trying to get through to the mayor’s office,” remembers Peter Marcus, communications director for Terrapin Care Station. “Then the texts started coming back saying hold tight, hang tight.”
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