Simply Pure, one of Denver’s most historic cannabis dispensaries, could be without a home at the end of the month, but the owner says she’s doing her best to keep the store open.
Wanda James and her husband, Scott Durrah, became Colorado’s first Black dispensary owners in 2009 with Apothecary of Colorado, their medical marijuana store in downtown Denver. They sold the dispensary in 2010, moving on to the edibles sector that same year under their Simply Pure brand, and then expanding into another storefront five years later at 2000 West 32nd Avenue, after retail sales had become legal.
Since 2015, Simply Pure dispensary has been a regular stop on cannabis-friendly tours and documentary productions, largely because of its interesting owners, both of whom have played roles in Colorado cannabis activism, culture and politics. But now the store is simply trying to survive…