Doobba, the first legal cannabis delivery company to be licensed by Denver, voluntarily surrendered its state of Colorado, city of Denver and Aurora licenses on Monday, ending operations after attempting to pioneer social equity in the new cannabis delivery market, owner Ari Cohen and Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement and Taxation Division confirmed to Denver Business Journal.
After being legalized at the state level in 2019, cannabis delivery in Colorado has struggled to catch on, partly because few cannabis dispensaries have successfully contracted with delivery services. The City of Denver made cannabis delivery licenses exclusively available to social equity applicants in April 2021 in an effort to make the cannabis industry more accessible and equitable.
Doobba, founded in August 2021 by husband and wife Ari and Karina Cohen, was the first social equity cannabis company licensed in Denver. A previous marijuana conviction is one of several criteria that qualifies an applicant as a social-equity applicant.
