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Tetra Lounge owner Dewayne Benjamin retooled the concept slightly, transforming an outdoor patio into the primary marijuana smoking area as he works to upgrade the business’ indoor ventilation system.

Despite grants and training programs, social equity businesses are struggling to survive.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock on Wednesday helped owner DeWayne Benjamin celebrate the city’s first approved social equity marijuana hospitality operator, Tetra Lounge.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Denver Mayor Michael Hancock this week helped celebrate the city’s first approved social equity marijuana hospitality operator.

The Patterson Inn in Capitol Hill has conditional approval to open a marijuana hospitality lounge under the city's new licensing program.

Businesses in the city of Denver can let people legally consume cannabis on site under a new hospitality establishment license.

Over the next week, two different Denver businesses will have hearings over their applications for a marijuana hospitality license. If granted, these businesses would be able to welcome Coloradans to smoke weed in designated lounges.

A Cap Hill inn, a private club in RiNo, and a South Broadway lounge are the first to seek the city's permission to allow cannabis consumption on site.

Marijuana business evolves with Denver city council approval of smoking lounges     DENVER (KCNC) — Tuesday is April 20 or 4/200, considered Colorado’s unofficial marijuana holiday. On Monday night, the Denver City Council approved the creation of smoking lounges and public use of pot on special buses. Behind the doors of a nondescript building in Denver’s RiNo neighborhood, a glimpse of what the future of marijuana consumption may look like. The Tetra Lounge is a private club, but t...