Licensing process delaying Manitou Springs marijuana sales

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Prospective pot merchants are playing a waiting game while a multi-tiered licensing process plays out

Licensing process delaying Manitou Springs marijuana sales
By Matt Steiner Updated: February 3, 2014 at 8:03 am • Published: February 2, 2014 | 10:35 pm

Retail marijuana sales are legal in Manitou Springs, but prospective pot merchants are playing a waiting game while a multi-tiered licensing process plays out.

The City Council in the town of about 5,200 west of Colorado Springs legalized retail sales Jan. 21 on a 6-1 vote. The amendment to the city code allows two marijuana stores to be operated in the town's commercial district, but not in the downtown sector. Most of the commercial zone is east of City Hall along Manitou Avenue.

But the vote did not mean that businesses opened the next day, or even the next month. Bill Conkling, owner of Maggie's Farm medical marijuana centers, plans to open one of those marijuana stores. Maggie's Farm has two locations in Colorado Springs and another in Ca?n City. The Manitou Springs City Council approved Conkling in the fall for another location at 141 Manitou Ave., which the owner plans to convert to a retail store or make it a dual retail/medical pot location.

"The first day I qualify to apply for retail, I will do so," Conkling said, noting that the building in Manitou that was once an auto repair shop will undergo renovations and open as a medical dispensary before he can move toward retail licensing.


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A Bob Dylan tune is now running thru my head:

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[center] "Maggie's Farm"

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
No, I aint gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
Well, I wake up in the morning
Fold my hands and pray for rain
I got a head full of ideas
That are drivin' me insane
It's a shame the way she makes me scrub the floor
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.

I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother no more
No, I aint gonna work for Maggie's brother no more
Well, he hands you a nickel
He hands you a dime
He asks you with a grin
If you're havin' a good time
Then he fines you every time you slam the door
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's brother more.

I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more
No, I aint gonna work for Maggie's pa no more
Well, he puts his cigar
Out in your face just for kicks
His bedroom window
It is made out of bricks
The National Guard stands around his door
Ah, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more.

I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more
No, I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more
Well, when she talks to all the servants
About man and God and law
Everybody says
She's the brains behind pa
She's sixty-eight, but she says she's twenty-four
I ain't gonna work for Maggie's ma no more.

I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
I aint gonna work on Maggie's farm no more
Well, I try my best
To be just like I am
But everybody wants you
To be just like them
They say sing while you slave and I just get bored
I ain't gonna work on Maggie's farm no more.