{"id":7536,"date":"2017-07-03T13:15:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T13:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=2704267"},"modified":"2017-07-03T13:15:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T13:15:28","slug":"starbucks-of-marijuana-denver-chain-heading-to-telluride-is-ruffling-existing-pot-business-feathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/starbucks-of-marijuana-denver-chain-heading-to-telluride-is-ruffling-existing-pot-business-feathers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStarbucks of marijuana\u201d Denver chain heading to Telluride is ruffling existing pot business\u2019 feathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/starbucks-of-marijuana-denver-chain-heading-to-telluride-is-ruffling-existing-pot-business-feathers\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Jul 3, 2017, 7:19 am \u2022 Updated: Jul 3, 2017, 10:51 am<span class=\"single-comments-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/07\/03\/starbucks-of-marijuana-telluride-dispensary-green-dragon\/82937\/#disqus_thread\" class=\"commentsNameLink\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>The Summit Daily<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TELLURIDE, Colo. \u2014 A new business called Green Dragon has been granted a license to sell recreational cannabis in Telluride. The four existing cannabis stores in Telluride aren\u2019t doing cartwheels of joy.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cWal-Mart of weed,\u201d said the manager of one existing store. The \u201cStarbucks of marijuana,\u201d said another of the Denver-based chain. It has 10 stores, including Aspen, Breckenridge and Glenwood Springs.<\/p>\n<p>Green Dragon\u2019s price of $5 a gram undercuts prices of existing stores. It sells only in the recreational sector. Other stores sell to both recreational and medical customers. A competitor argues that those with medical needs will be hurt by this price-cutting.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Telluride Daily Planet, this new twist has some existing cannabis stores calling for new rules to govern marijuana sales. Like Aspen, Telluride has largely treated marijuana stores like liquor stores. There are no limits and there are no special prohibitions about locations, such as restricting them to industrial zones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/mountain-town-news-starbucks-of-marijuana-unwelcome-by-other-telluride-stores\/\">Read more on the Summit Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/mountain-town-news-starbucks-of-marijuana-unwelcome-by-other-telluride-stores\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">This story was first published on SummitDaily.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Wal-Mart of weed,&#8221; said the manager of one existing store. The &#8220;Starbucks of marijuana,&#8221; said another of the Denver-based chain. It has 10 stores, including Aspen, Breckenridge and Glenwood Springs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6813,77,5667,6858,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6818,2655,5673,6860,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}