First Recreational Marijuana Club In Colorado Closes Hours After Opening

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The first recreational marijuana club in Colorado — permitted under the state’s landmark new law, Amendment 64 —  shuttered its doors this week mere hours after its opening on Monday, the Denver Post reports.

Attempting to make history as the first establishment of its kind in the state under the new law, the White Horse Inn in Del Norte, Colo. opened on Monday — inadvertently breaking the building’s lease, which wasn’t slated to begin until Tuesday. The club’s owner, Paul Lovato, said his landlord nullified the lease before it took effect after seeing the publicity generated by the grand opening.

“By opening early I kind of screwed myself out of my building,” Lovato told the Post on Tuesday.

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