"Need Room to Grow?"
Publication Date
1-22-2014
Document Type
Article
Organizational Units
Sturm College of Law
Keywords
Real estate, Marijuana, Colorado, Denver
Abstract
Real estate agent Rona Hanson walks around a suburban home west of Denver that was recently put on the market by another realtor, liking what she sees. The 3,000-square-foot midcentury brick bungalow is in fine shape, with a picturesque horse farm across the street and front-porch views of the snow-topped Colorado foothills. But what most excites Hanson about it, why she’s eager to show it to her clients, is the 50-square-foot bedroom in the far corner of the basement, a bland space with small windows near the ceiling and a basic attached bathroom. Not your typical selling point for a house, but to Hanson, it’s perfect—a perfect grow room for a dozen recreational marijuana plants, the maximum Colorado residents are now allowed to cultivate per household.
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Recommended Citation
Sam Kamin & Joel Warner, "Need Room to Grow?," Slate: Altered State (Jan. 22, 2014), https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/01/colorado-marijuana-legalization-how-it-is-remaking-the-states-economy-in-unexpected-ways.html.