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Colorado Marijuana Industry on Pace for Another Annual Dip in 2023

Colorado dispensaries will collect less money in 2023 than they did last year, according to sales projections based on state Department of Revenue data. Through the first five months of 2023, Colorado saw just over $651 million in marijuana sales,…

State Warns Marijuana Growers After “Many Examples” of Attempts to Cheat Testing in Colorado

State investigators have identified numerous examples of marijuana product adulteration by businesses attempting to cheat contaminant testing, according to the Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division. Marijuana contamination from mold or illegal pesticides has been an ongoing problem since recreational pot sales began in…

Colorado marijuana sales lowest since before pandemic

Colorado’s marijuana sales are at the lowest they’ve been since before the COVID pandemic, and prices have never been cheaper. Sales skyrocketed at the dawn of the global public health emergency in March 2020. The state saw record sales until…

Budget-Friendly Weed Lines Gaining Steam In Colorado

Katt Williams's joke is over fifteen years old, but it still rings true for many marijuana users: "I need regular weed. I don't want shit with a nickname. Not thrilla, killa, salmonella — none of that shit." Believe it or…

Marijuana Businesses Need to Pay Their Bills, MED Warns

On March 9, the state Marijuana Enforcement Division announced that total marijuana sales had cleared the $14 billion mark in February, nine years and two months after Colorado became the first state in the country to allow recreational pot sales. In a separate…

Native Roots’ COO Beth Kotarba on Sustainability and the Single-State Business Model

February 14, 2023
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New industries do not emerge from the primordial muck of a federal prohibition every day, and when they do the immutable law of government malaise predictably dictates that there will be years of market chaos before something resembling a functional…

Coloradans can now buy weed from a vending machine (yes, really)

Cannabis consumers who stop by Terrapin Care Station dispensary in Aurora can now buy weed the same way they might buy their favorite munchies: from a vending machine. In early February, the company installed what’s technically called an Automated Cannabis Experience (ACE), a…

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Colorado marijuana sales tank in 2022 after pandemic-induced high

February 6, 2023
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Following a pandemic "high,” Colorado marijuana sales have been plummeting for months. Sales skyrocketed for the marijuana industry in the beginning of 2022, a trend that began at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, marijuana industry officials are seeing…

‘Sales plummet’ for recreational and medical marijuana in Colorado

January 15, 2023
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Colorado saw an almost $100 million decline in marijuana tax revenue last year, and an industry trade group said on Friday that the drop is resulting in struggles for small-business owners. The Marijuana Industry Group (MIG) cited sales numbers released Wednesday by…

Marijuana legalization in Colorado is 10 years old. Here’s the story of how it happened.

November 7, 2022
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Ten years ago this month, Colorado voters did something that had never been done before in the world: They legalized the use and sale of marijuana at the state level. Technically, voters in Washington state passed a legalization measure on…

As harvest season winds up, many cannabis companies prefer to grow outdoors, despite challenges

October 17, 2022
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For cannabis growers who plant outdoors, turning leaves signify the fall harvest. During the month of October — colloquially known as Croptober — cultivators throughout Colorado cut down their marijuana fields, the first step in the plants’ journey to reach…

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‘This can be done right’: how Colorado sparked a decade of marijuana reform

October 15, 2022
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Ten years ago voters in Colorado approved a ballot measure called Amendment 64 that legalized cannabis for adult, recreational use. This not only created a booming avenue of tourism for Denver – which became the Las Vegas of legal weed – but…

Colorado medical marijuana sales spiral down as industry suffers

September 27, 2022
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Julie Richardson moved to Colorado from Louisiana in 2015, specifically to get the quality of cannabis-derived medicines obtainable here — but which were unavailable or too expensive back home. Now, Richardson, who suffered a spinal injury when she was 6 months…

Did marijuana legalization lead to increased use in Colorado? A new study has a novel answer.

September 15, 2022
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In the decade since Colorado voters passed Amendment 64 legalizing adult use of marijuana in state law, a slew of studies have tried to estimate the impact. They’ve looked broadly and more narrowly, and have concluded — depending on how you might read…

Marijuana sales in Colorado off by $72M over pandemic high

September 14, 2022
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The waning of the pandemic, along with a decline in demand from customers coming in from out of state, has continued to burn into Colorado’s marijuana market this summer, during what are generally some of the strongest months for pot…