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Denver home marijuana grows stay indoors and cannot become sales
A Porch Note from Colorado Porch — plain-English local details for all 64 Colorado counties.
Marijuana rules in Denver reach well past the storefronts. They follow the plant home, into the basement, the garage, and the back yard.
Adult residents can grow marijuana at home within city limits, but the where and how are fixed. The plants have to stay in an enclosed, locked area. Growing outdoors anywhere in the City and County of Denver is off the table; the grow has to sit inside an enclosed, locked structure with a permanent roof and solid exterior walls. A tarp over a corner of the yard does not meet that bar, and neither does an open patio.
Sales draw a harder line still. Homegrown marijuana cannot be sold to anyone. That single rule splits a personal home grow from a business so cleanly that the two become entirely different legal questions, with the second one far beyond what a household plant count allows.
All of this is worth pinning down before you lean on a basement, garage, yard, lease term, or HOA rule to make a plan work, since any one of them can quietly close off the option. Denver’s marijuana information page is the place to confirm the current limits, and anything that edges past personal use is a good moment to get real legal advice rather than guessing.
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