Denver officials just noticed a troubling pattern in the location of the city’s marijuana businesses.
A Jan. 3 analysis by the Denver Post found that companies with pot licenses in the city, where cannabis use has been legal since 2014, are mostly in low-income neighborhoods with high proportions of ethnic minorities. Just three of those neighborhoods account for about a quarter of local marijuana-related facilities.
Residents of those areas complain about the smell that wafts out of the grows, and say they worry about a rise in crime and youth drug use.
Some opponents of pot legalization had feared this would happen.
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