(Denver Post) Although Denver is perceived as a national leader in its regulation of medical marijuana, an audit released Thursday found serious problems with how the city licenses, tracks and manages the booming medical marijuana industry in the city.
Denver has the most medical marijuana dispensaries in the state, but the city’s oversight has been “ineffective” and “inefficient” and poses “substantive risks to the city,” according to the report that Denver auditor Dennis Gallagher called “devastating.”
Lack of oversight potentially cost the city millions in lost tax revenues and put neighborhoods and citizens at risk, said one member of the audit committee.
