DENVER — As some of Denver’s Cannabis Social Equity Program participants struggle to find permanency in the cannabis industry, a Colorado man recently opened his first dispensary called 'Let’s Blaze' — three years after entering the program. The program is designed to help Coloradans with marijuana convictions that predate legalization become cannabis business owners.“So, with the social equity , they had set forth rules and stipulations and guidelines you had to follow.
Dispensaries can list on our website, and then we'll go pick up goods and deliver straight to your door. And that's led us to have a full ecosystem of cannabis licenses now, including our own dispensary, which will be our delivery hub as well,” Lane said.Denver’s executive director of The Department of Excise and Licenses Molly Duplechian said social equity applicants still face challenges.