Denver officers suspended the tobacco license of an East Colfax smoke store after employees repeatedly offered tobacco and kratom to minors and illegally offered alcohol, psilocybin and marijuana, in line with metropolis information.
Denver’s Division of Licensing and Shopper Safety issued a abstract suspension order to Vibe Smoke Store, 7530 E. Colfax Ave., on Tuesday, following months of group complaints, failed inspections and citations, metropolis officers wrote within the order.
Licensing officers referred to as it “one of many worst instances of alleged unlawful product gross sales the town has ever uncovered in random inspections.”
Vibe Smoke Store employees offered tobacco merchandise to teenage “undercover operatives” on a number of events relationship again to June 2025.
Complaints began to ramp up in January, when a group member reported two teenage boys had been shopping for kratom merchandise from the shop, together with the extremely potent, opioid-like 7-hydroxymitraginine, or 7-OH. Regardless of repeated tickets and inspections, the shop continued to promote the merchandise for months afterward.
“Because of their consumption of 7-OH merchandise bought from (Vibe Smoke Store,) each underage boys skilled signs of kratom dependancy and required exterior dependancy remedy providers,” metropolis officers stated within the grievance.
On the finish of March, metropolis and police officers got here to the shop for an unannounced inspection after receiving reviews of after-hours events and located massive portions of alcohol and flavored tobacco merchandise; “magic mushroom” tablets; marijuana merchandise with excessive ranges of Delta-8 and Delta-9 THC; and kratom merchandise with excessive ranges of 7-OH.
The shop doesn’t have a liquor or marijuana license, in line with the town. Ranges of 7-OH in kratom are regulated by state regulation, and flavored tobacco merchandise are banned in Denver.
Vibe Smoke Store should seem for a digital listening to on June 26 to indicate proof why the shop’s license shouldn’t be suspended or revoked, in line with metropolis information.
Telephone calls to the shop went unanswered on Tuesday, and the enterprise didn’t have a voicemail arrange.
