DENVER — One Denver service gets a new claim to fame: the first to deliver marijuana to a residence in the city legally.
Doobba is one of the only businesses in the Denver metro with a transporter license, given the terms of the city's social equity program intended to reduce barriers for those entering the marijuana industry.
>> Video above: Businesses start applying for licenses to deliver marijuana
The business made its first pot delivery on Thursday for Strawberry Fields dispensary.
For six years, the city will only hand out transporter licenses to people who fit the state's social equity criteria.
The social equity criteria allowed for the owners of Doobba to open the delivery service earlier this year.
Denver resident got first weed delivery
“I have a criminal conviction in my past for marijuana possession and distribution and that kind of qualifies me for this program here in Colorado," Ari Cohen said.
Ari Cohen's decades-old, out-of-state conviction qualified him and his wife to apply for a license to operate their new business.
“We’re able to take something that negatively impacted him throughout his life and turn something positive into it and create opportunities for ourselves and for others and pave the way for the industry," said Karina Cohen.
They planned to have an operational fleet of drivers assigned to each store they partner with and help other businesses apply for the social equity program.
“To see that something that was illegal just a few years ago, now I have actually a license to do here in Colorado, it’s definitely ironic," Ari Cohen said.
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