Seized pot paraphernalia up for auction in Denver

DENVER - The owners of a half-dozen Denver marijuana dispensaries who collectively owe $63,952 in back taxes to the city will see their gear sold at auction, reports CBS Denver.

For sale: furniture, safes, office supplies, pot-related posters and even marijuana leaf-shaped green neon signs. Everything but the pot itself. The product seized by federal agents during raids will be destroyed, according to the station.

The city has reportedly contracted Rich Schur to auction the contents of the six stores.

At Kushism, one of the stores, court papers were scattered in the parking lot. One portion of the papers said the dispensary owners owed more than $7,000 in back rent, reports the station.

Schur doesn't expect the seizure and the auction to be an isolated event.

"I think this is going to be the first of a series with new laws coming into place and this being a new business enterprise in Colorado," Schur told CBS Denver. "Like many business ventures, many of them fail in the first year or two."

The auction began Monday at successauctions.com.