Denver Revokes Licenses After Cannabis Company’s Compliance Manager Arrested In Interstate Drug Case

Officials in Denver, Colorado, earlier this month revoked four business
licenses for a cannabis dispensary and cultivation facility after an
employee was arrested in an interstate drug case, The Denver Post reports. The
decision from Denver’s Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection also
cited signage issues, security violations, and violations of regulations
requiring electronic tags on plants.

According to the final decision letter outlined by the Post, Eileen
Steamer, wife of the owner of Blazin OG and the company’s compliance
manager, was arrested last year in Nebraska with 31 pounds of cannabis that
she said she was taking to friends in Michigan. She was charged with two
felonies – intent to distribute marijuana and lack of a tax stamp.
She pleaded no contest and was fined $10,000, the report says.

The arrest sparked an investigation by Denver officials. The inspectors
found 2,606 cannabis plants in Blazin OG’s flower rooms that did not have
the required electronic tags attached to the plants; instead, the tags were
lying in the soil.

Officials said that Blazin OG also failed to post several “Restricted
Access” signs, including at a cultivation area and where cash was
kept. Blazin OG was also accused of failing to store security camera
footage for the required 30 days, with inspectors finding only a single day
of footage. In the final letter, officials contend that Blazing OG “had
advanced knowledge of the underlying inspection and that it is more likely
than not that [they] erased all video recordings prior to the day before
the inspection.”