Ask a Stoner: What Happened to To-Go Dispensary Sales?

click to enlarge Customers wait to pick up a purchase at a walk-up window at Higher Grade, a Denver dispensary, in 2020. Thomas MitchellWhat happened to dispensary to-go windows? After those executive orders ended last summer, many of those windows closed across the state, because dispensaries could only accept cash inside at the register again. But don’t slam your hopes shut just yet.Permanent to-go and drive-thru marijuana sales were actually allowed by the state Marijuana Enforcement Division in 2021, but those temporary windows didn’t slide open right away. First, local governments have to approve to-go windows at dispensaries, and then any pot shop that wants to operate to-go windows has to follow stricter security and surveillance rules that weren’t required during the executive-order period.