NEW YORK (MainStreet)  Delilah Reed and her boyfriend Douglas Khalil are planning to take their next vacation in Denver so that they can look for work and smoke marijuana recreationally.

"We'd relocate from Virginia immediately if either one of us secured a job in Colorado, because we're tired of hiding our recreational activity," Reed told MainStreet.

Both have lined up job interviews, but legalization is not all that it seems. The couple is having a hard time booking a hotel room where they can smoke the plant-based drug.

"Most of the hotel rooms we've called don't allow you to indulge on the premises," said Khalil. "It's putting a damper on our dreams."

Although the sale and purchase of marijuana is now legal in Colorado, finding a place to smoke it is a greater challenge especially for business travelers and tourists. In fact, the demand is so great for lodging that allows cannabis smoking that Colorado Green Tours travel agency founder Peter Johnson is seeking capital to lease private condos where people can lodge and smoke when they visit, because 75% of all hotels offer non-smoking rooms.

"We cater to the cannabis-friendly crowd," Johnson said. "So, for us, it's not hard to find a place to smoke in peace but for someone from out of town it's a difficult task. People call us to ask where to stay."

For less than $1,500, Colorado Green Tours books customized, private weekend accommodations in condos, hotels and apartments where travelers can freely smoke.

"We also arrange tours to multiple dispensaries, growing operations, cannabis dinner parties, industry trade shows, cannabis consumer trade shows and ground transportation to and from these events," Johnson said.

However, for workers on a business trip from out of state desiring to smoke a little of the plant based drug during their off hours, hotel and employer prohibitions may apply.

"Company business may be defined as time spent in the course and scope of one's duties for the company but the lines blur when business and social purposes are combined which is often the case during business trips," said Audrey Mross, an employment attorney and senior partner with Munck Wilson Mandala in Dallas.

In other words, if company policy prohibits possessing, purchasing, transferring, distribution, use of or being under the influence of marijuana and other controlled or illegal drugs while on company business then smoking pot while on a business trip will be in violation.

"The nature of one's duties and the ease with which electronic communications make an employee accessible could mean the employee is conducting business on behalf of the employer at virtually any time," Mross told MainStreet.

State laws in Colorado do not trump an employer's policies.

"The employers' right to prohibit use of marijuana at work and while on company business and to enforce that prohibition with disciplinary action up to and including discharge from employment remains firm," said Mross.

--Written by Juliette Fairley for MainStreet