Boulder Revised Code Title 6 cannabis licensing imposes location buffers around schools, drug- and alcohol-treatment facilities, and other cannabis businesses. State CRS §44-10-313 sets a 1,000-foot school buffer that local rules may tighten but not relax.
Boulder licenses recreational and medical cannabis businesses under BRC Title 6 (Cannabis Code), implementing Colorado Amendment 64 (2012) and the Colorado Marijuana Code at CRS §44-10. State law forbids any cannabis store, cultivation, or manufacturing site within 1,000 feet of a school, with limited measurement-method exceptions for license renewals. Boulder layers on additional buffers from drug-treatment facilities, child-care centers, and other cannabis stores. The city caps the total number of cannabis storefronts and uses zoning districts (BMS, MU-1, IS) to channel cannabis into commercial corridors. Hospitality businesses (consumption lounges authorized under HB19-1230) face the same buffers plus restrictions on co-location with liquor licensees.
Operating, expanding, or relocating a cannabis business inside a buffer zone is grounds for license denial, suspension, or revocation by Boulder's licensing authority and the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division.
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