For the first time, a Denver marijuana grow operation could lose its license because of neighborhood pushback.
A hearing officer’s recommended denial, if accepted, jeopardizes the license that allows Starbuds to grow plants on the second floor of a recreational marijuana shop it operates at 4690 Brighton Blvd., near the National Western Stock Show. That is the original location of the marijuana chain.
Neighborhood activists in Elyria-Swansea, which is home to businesses with more than three dozen marijuana cultivation licenses, have been pushing back against the saturation of odor-emitting grow operations in an area where homes and industry long have coexisted. Starbuds could become their first successful target.
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