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Colorado's recreational marijuana stores make history Story highlights. Colorado began allowing the sale of recreational marijuana on January 1 to anyone age 21 or older. Residents can now buy marijuana like alcohol -- except the cannabis purchase is limited to an ounce, which is substantial enough to cost about $200 or more.
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Colorado Raised More Tax Revenue From Marijuana Than From Alcohol Colorado collected almost $70 million in marijuana taxes during that time, nearly double the $42 million collected from alcohol taxes. The state had a tax holiday for marijuana on Wednesday, an event that was welcomed by consumers and producers alike.
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Nine things to know before smoking pot in Colorado The short answer is: tax revenue. In the most recent fiscal year, Colorado generated $9.1 million in retail sales tax from the sale of medical marijuana. This figure is bound to surge with the introduction of recreational sales and the additional 25% in excise and sales taxes thereon in 2014.
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Colorado Raised More Tax Revenue From Marijuana Than From Alcohol Pot is a boon for tax revenues in Colorado, outpacing revenue from alcohol taxes in the fiscal year ending on June 30. Colorado collected almost $70 million in marijuana taxes during that time, nearly double the $42 million collected from alcohol taxes.
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Colorado is making so much money from cannabis it's having to give some back to citizens Marijuana on sale at a dispensary in Denver, Colorado Getty. Colorado's marijuana experiment has been an empirically rousing success thus far, with crime down and tourism up, and now the state has collected so much money in tax from sales of pot that it might be legally obliged to give some back.
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2 States Now Allow Recreational Marijuana Sales To Adults â And Our Minds Are Blown Colorado and Washington were the first U.S. states to approve adult-use marijuana in 2012. Colorado's first retail marijuana shops opened to long lines and high sales. In the first week, Colorado shops raked in more than $5 million. To date, with more than 100 shops now open, recreational marijuana retailers have generated sales of about $70 million. In Colorado's first five months of legalization, crime in Denver has been down, but state tax revenue has soared.
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Marijuana sales tax revenue huge boon for Colorado cities Marijuana sales this year are expected to reach $1 billion in Colorado, and local government entities are cashing in. “A lot of communities have struggled to have enough revenue to fill potholes and to keep the street lights on,” said Mike Elliott, executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group.
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- 2016 marks another positive year for marijuana legislation in Colorado. Gov. John Hickenlooper’s signature on several good marijuana-related bills rounds out the 2016 session, improving Colorado’s laws in significant ways. Out-of-state visitors aged 21 or over may now purchase up to an ounce of marijuana from licensed retail shops, treating visitors the same as state residents.
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Colorado Marijuana Information Legal marijuana in the state of Colorado is going to be competitively priced. Denver has a sales tax of 21.12%, and you can find marijuana for around $15-$25/gram before taxes. Buying the maximum amount (7g for non-residents) at each store will lower the price per gram significantly.
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Marijuana Legalization Bills: Colorado Lawmakers Pass Historic Legal Weed Regulation, Tax Bills On the final day of the legislative session, Colorado lawmakers finally passed two historic bills to implement recreational marijuana legalization in the state -- making Colorado the first state in the U.S. to take such steps toward the legal sale, regulation and tax of marijuana for recreational use.
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Garden City Welcomes First Legal Sales Of Recreational Pot In Northern Colorado (CBS4) – The first legal sales of recreational marijuana in Northern Colorado began Monday morning in Garden City. Cloud 9 Caregivers on 6th Avenue opened doors at 11 a.m. A crowd of people lined up to buy pot legally. They see it as a historic moment, not just for Northern Colorado, but for the nation.
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Is Colorado's homeless surge tied to marijuana legalization? But some in Denver, the unofficial legal marijuana capital of the US, are not so sure. Colorado has seen an uptick in homelessness of just over 8% since 2013, a year after the state backed legalization, fueling speculation over whether the looser rules have boosted the numbers of those on the city’s sidewalks and in its shelters.
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Colorado Recreational Marijuana Sales Exceed $5 Million In First Week Colorado Recreational Marijuana Sales Exceed $5 Million In First Week. Colorado marijuana dispensaries made huge sales in the first week of legal recreational marijuana. Owners of the 37 new dispensaries around the state reported first week retail sales to The Huffington Post that, when added together, were roughly $5 million. That's a lot of green for Colorado's legal weed. Colorado, the first state to allow retail recreational marijuana sales to adults age 21 and older, has projected nearly $600 million in combined wholesale and retail marijuana sales annually.
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Dime Store The line outside the Medicine Man dispensary in Denver on Jan. 1, 2014, the first day of legal recreational marijuana sales. Photo by Ry Prichard O n Jan. 1, Colorado’s recreational marijuana shops opened for business.
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Colorado makes $3.5M in pot revenue in January In their first month, legal recreational pot sales generated over $2 million in tax revenue for Colorado, but some state agencies aren't thrilled about the new green. vpc Customers shop for marijuana inside the retail store at 3D Cannabis Center in Denver on Feb. 14.
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Emergency Room Visits Double for Marijuana-Using Colorado Visitors Tourists who come to Colorado and take advantage of the state's liberal marijuana laws often end up in emergency rooms, doctors said Wednesday. Emergency department visits involving marijuana-using visitors doubled from 2013 to 2014, the first year cannabis use was legalized in Colorado, a team of Denver-area doctors said.
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An Out-of-State Visitors Guide to Marijuana in Colorado An Out-of-State Visitors Guide to Marijuana in Colorado On December 10, 2012, Coloradans passed Amendment 64, effectively legalizing the possession and sale of marijuana in the State of Colorado, making Colorado one of two places in the world where an adult, over the age of 21 can legally possess and consume marijuana recreationally.
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Colorado monthly marijuana sales eclipse $100 million mark Monthly marijuana sales in Colorado have soared past the $100 million mark for the first time, according to the August recreational and medical marijuana sales data from the state Department of Revenue released Friday.
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The Legal Stoner's Guide to Colorado's New Marijuana Law On Jan. 1, Colorado will become the first state to allow the sale of retail marijuana since the federal government banned its recreational use in 1937.
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Which states have legalized medical marijuana? Of those states, Washington and Colorado have legalized marijuana for recreational use. Colorado's first retail marijuana stores opened Jan. 1 for sale to people 21 years and older. Under federal law, marijuana is still an illegal drug.
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- A bill by the Washington, D.C. council was not overruled by Congress. Medical cannabis became legal on Jan. 1, 2011. Dispensaries have begun opening and cultivation centers are in process to be permitted. The DC council has also reduced penalties for possession of 1 oz. of marijuana to a $25 civil fine without jail.n June 15, 2015, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that even though medical marijuana is legal in Colorado, employers can fire workers who use marijuana for medical reasons because it violates federal law.
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Colorado pot taxes: Nov. medical sales tanked as retail numbers held strong Medical marijuana sales in Colorado tanked in November as they dropped nearly 17 percent from the previous month, according to just-released data from the Department of Revenue. Medical dispensaries sold $27.5 million of cannabis in November, a big downturn from October’s $33.1 million in medical revenues.edical marijuana sales in Colorado tanked in November as they dropped nearly 17 percent from the previous month, according to just-released data from the Department of Revenue. Medical dispensaries sold $27.5 million of cannabis in November, a big downturn from October’s $33.1 million in medical revenues.
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- (CBS4) – The first legal sales of recreational marijuana in Northern Colorado began Monday morning in Garden City. Cloud 9 Caregivers on 6th Avenue opened doors at 11 a.m. A crowd of people lined up to buy pot legally.
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- Andrew Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant and Benjamin Franklin. Jilly Bean, Lemon Haze and Bubba Kush. Those two types of green are flowing in and out of Colorado’s 200 dispensaries: lots of cash to buy potent strains of cannabis. Nearly $19 million in March alone. In 2012, voters ended the state’s prohibition on marijuana in a revolutionary referendum, as did voters in Washington state.