According to Excise and Licenses communications director Eric Escudero, it's possible that Tetra could be open by April 20, "depending on how quickly" it schedules and passes inspections. The lounge now needs to pass city zoning and air filtration inspections before it can open as a common consumption area.
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Visitors must bring their own marijuana to consume at the lounge, which doesn't have a license to sell any pot products. Tetra will continue operating as a lounge where visitors pay an entrance fee, with daily passes and monthly memberships available, Benjamin explains. "People travel from all around the world to smoke cannabis in Denver, and a lot of them don't know how it affects them or where they can consume." The plan was to get the license with that smoking provision," Benjamin says. Back when I opened in 2018, they just released the first hospitality rules, which didn't allow smoking. "The goal has always been to prove the model to the city. Already approved for pot hospitality at the state level by the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division, Tetra received its local license to operate today, March 21, from the Denver Department of Excise and Licenses.
Benjamin applied within days of the new program's launch and received a favorable recommendation from a city hearing officer earlier this month. The new program, open for applications since last November, allows indoor smoking and marijuana consumption by people 21 and older. However, the city's first social pot consumption program banned indoor smoking until last year, when Denver City Council adopted new rules regarding pot hospitality. Since 2018, Tetra Lounge, at 3039 Walnut Street, has operated as a members-only marijuana smoking lounge, but owner Dewayne Benjamin has been chasing a permit to operate publicly since pot hospitality licenses were created. Denver has approved the city's first marijuana lounge designated for indoor smoking.
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