{"id":8426,"date":"2018-08-25T12:57:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T12:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=3178268"},"modified":"2018-08-25T12:57:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T12:57:48","slug":"denvers-second-licensed-social-marijuana-business-to-open-this-fall-as-vaping-bar-and-lounge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/denvers-second-licensed-social-marijuana-business-to-open-this-fall-as-vaping-bar-and-lounge\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver\u2019s second licensed social marijuana business to open this fall as vaping bar and lounge"},"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\/denvers-second-licensed-social-marijuana-business-to-open-this-fall-as-vaping-bar-and-lounge\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3170822\" class=\"wp-caption alignright size-article_inline_half\"><img class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/denvers-second-licensed-social-marijuana-business-to-open-this-fall-as-vaping-bar-and-lounge.jpg\" width=\"6144\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n<p>Shaban Athuman, The Denver Post<\/p>\n<p>Shawn and Dina Case, of Bloomfield, Ky., shop for smoking paraphernalia on Aug. 16, 2018, at The Coffee Joint, which received Denver\u2019s first social marijuana license.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Denver\u2019s licensing director signed off Friday on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/08\/18\/denver-social-marijuana-use-program-struggling\/\">the city\u2019s second license<\/a> for a marijuana consumption area in a business, paving the way for a vaping bar and lounge to open this fall.<\/p>\n<p>The owners of Vape and Play plan to open the 21-and-over social lounge and entertainment venue in November or sooner, depending on the timing of a renovation of the building at 1753 S. Broadway. Co-owner Taylor Rosean says the lounge will be centered around a \u201cmulti-station, saloon-style vape bar,\u201d though customers will have to bring their own marijuana per the rules of Denver\u2019s 2016 voter-passed Initiative 300.<\/p>\n<p>Because of restrictions contained in the initiative and regulations added by the city, prospective applicants for I-300 licenses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/08\/18\/denver-social-marijuana-use-program-struggling\/\">have run into roadblocks<\/a> in trying to open businesses.<\/p>\n<p>That has spurred calls by activists and even some City Council members to relax 1,000-foot buffers that prohibit licensees near schools, park facilities, drug treatment centers and licensed child cares.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>But Vape and Play\u2019s owners were able to find a location in a busy Broadway district that is known by some as \u201cthe Green Mile\u201d for the concentration of dispensaries in the area. The Overland Park Neighborhood Association endorsed the license, with some conditions on its operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be one of the first legal spaces for tourists, eager to partake in our cannabis culture, to safely and legally consume the products they are already purchasing here as they visit,\u201d Rosean wrote in an email. \u201cNot to mention we will be providing a space for locals who rent and are not allowed to consume on their property per their lease, or just for people who would like to enjoy cannabis in a space that isn\u2019t their living room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The approval of its license by Ashley Kilroy, executive director of the city\u2019s Department of Excise and Licenses, follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/02\/26\/denver-approves-first-social-marijuana-license\/\">the granting of the first license<\/a> to The Coffee Joint in February. That business is located next to a dispensary that has shared ownership in La Alma\/Lincoln Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Denver&#8217;s licensing director signed off Friday on the city&#8217;s second license for a marijuana consumption area in a business, paving the way for a vaping bar and lounge to open this fall on South Broadway. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,6811,6847,6861,6813,7524,6848,77,5577,5667,9,5019,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[2632,6816,6850,6862,6818,7527,6851,2655,5580,5673,5022,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426"}],"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=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}