Law student Jacob Scholl has completed externships at the Colorado Court of Appeals and Federal Public Defender Office. Attending the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Jacob Scholl is a member-at-large with the Criminal Law Association and has a professional interest in state and municipal marijuana laws.
Since Colorado passed the first series of legislation legalizing the sale and use of marijuana in 2014, there have been several revisions and amendments to the law. In 2019, the state legislature created a permitting process for restaurants and other recreational venues to obtain social consumption licenses. While this would legalize marijuana use on-site, businesses with this type of permit will not be allowed to sell marijuana.
The same bill permits dispensaries to organize in-house product samplings. However, no establishment can possess a liquor license and marijuana social use license simultaneously. The law went into effect in 2020. While the law applies at the state level, individual cities can choose to opt-in to the changes. Marijuana use remains illegal in most public venues.
Jacob Scholl 