Chefs and Business Owners Want Event Permits for Cannabis

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There's a growing push to upgrade Colorado's limited cannabis hospitality rules.

Despite being the first state to legalize cannabis for recreational use, Colorado still hasn't effectively established a licensed hospitality sector.Chef Dave Hadley has cooked around the world, with a résumé that includes working at Michelin-star restaurants and winning multiple Food Network challenges. His current project, an Indian street-food pop-up calledBut Hadley has also pursued a side hustle for the past eight years, prestigious food critics be dammed.

"There are alcohol brands sponsoring chefs, but there hasn't been that look in the cannabis market yet because we just haven't seen anything like it — or the look behind what we have right now is negative or distasteful," he argues."There is a way to do both, but we as a society just haven't been able to accept a format of live eating and drinking, hospitality rules or smoking sections.

"Through history, we've not been able to get behind the idea of smoking cannabis in a place with food pairings in a beautiful but regular restaurant. We just haven't gotten there yet, but why not?" Hadley asks."We can take precautions, just like with alcohol, whether it's cut-offs or ensuring safe transportation."

Woolf says he wasn't affected much by the recent crackdown in Denver, but now his"wings feel clipped" in the city.

 

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