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  Do Denver Rental Cars Smell Like Marijuana?

  August 16 at 6:40 a.m.

  During a recent interview with Westword, Smart Approaches to Marijuana President and CEO Kevin Sabet, one of America's most influential critics of cannabis legalization, offered an unexpected observation about his visits to Denver. According to Sabet, a number of vehicles provided to him by Denver International Airport rental car businesses over the past few years have smelled strongly of pot. He added that he's had to exchange rentals multiple times at DIA before he's been given one that didn't reek of weed, giving him multiple opportunities to "educate" personnel at the agencies about the scope of a problem he views as positively chronic.

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  Most Denver Renters Want to Move to Another City: Here's Why

  August 15 at 6:48 a.m.

  A new study maintains that two-thirds of Denver renters plan to move to another city, a figure higher than the national average, with most listing high rent costs in the Mile High City as the main reason. At the same time, however, so many people from other places want to move here that the actual number of renters in Denver will likely remain steady in the near-future and could actually rise.

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  Social Pot Consumption Advocates May Sue City of Denver

  August 14 at 1:13 p.m.

  The drafters of Denver's social cannabis consumption initiative have been vocal about their dissatisfaction with the city's finalized rules and distance requirements for businesses applying to open a consumption area. Now they're taking it a step further, threatening to sue the City of Denver if less restrictive rules aren't put...

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  Medical Marijuana From The Hemp Center Recalled for Pesticides

  August 11 at 6:54 a.m.

  Kirke LLC/Metro Denver Telluride Health Center LLC, known to its customers as The Hemp Center, has voluntarily issued a recall on medical marijuana products because of potentially unsafe levels of four banned pesticides.

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  Jeff Sessions Finally Replies to John Hickenlooper's Marijuana Letter

  August 11 at 5:45 a.m.

  Jeff Sessions, a proponent of the war on drugs, hasn't been shy about saying that marijuana should remain illegal federally. So on April 3, four governors of the states with legal recreational cannabis businesses up and running, including Colorado, sent him a letter. And finally, the Attorney General has responded.

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  The Long, Strange Trip for Pot Club Studio420

  August 10 at 6:40 a.m.

  Studio420, an Englewood marijuana club, has been ordered to shut down following an administrative hearing. The business is planning to appeal the latest negative ruling in a years-long fight with the city that dates back to a time when it was called iBake Englewood and fronted by an entrepreneur who called himself Thurlow Weed.