Editor's Note: This is an interesting situation and one that marijuana advocates will likely want to pay close attention to. Cannabis Business Times has additional background on the boycott of Holiday Inn called for by the Marijuana Policy Project, and analysis on the lawsuit that are worth a read.Â
Marijuana advocates from California to North Carolina have taken to Yelp to lambast the owners of a Frisco, Colorado, Holiday Inn. The hotel's parent company, New Vision Hotels Two LLC, is at the center of a lawsuit aimed at dismantling the state’s legal weed industry.
A receptionist for the Frisco Holiday Inn said the hotel has also received several calls from people expressing their displeasure with the hotel’s involvement in the lawsuit, filed jointly with the Washington, D.C.-based Safe Streets Alliance on Feb. 19.
The lawsuit, filed with the U.S. District Court in Denver, claims that the Holiday Inn’s business has suffered because of the proposed addition of a retail pot shop across the parking lot from the hotel, although the dispensary has yet to open.
