{"id":804369,"date":"2020-02-19T11:28:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379207"},"modified":"2020-02-19T11:28:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:28:06","slug":"colorado-marijuana-sales-hit-a-record-1-75-billion-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/colorado-marijuana-sales-hit-a-record-1-75-billion-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado marijuana sales hit a record $1.75 billion in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/MarijuanaWebCard-SDN-1024x638.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Last year was the most lucrative 12 months for cannabis sales in Colorado since the state\u2019s voters legalized recreational marijuana.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.gov\/pacific\/sites\/default\/files\/1219_MJSalesCalendarReport_PUBLISH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Medical and recreational cannabis sales<\/a>&nbsp;hit a record $1.75 billion in 2019, up 13% from 2018, according to data from the Department of Revenue\u2019s Marijuana Enforcement Division.&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.gov\/pacific\/sites\/default\/files\/0120_MJTaxCalendarReport_PUBLISH.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Marijuana tax collections<\/a>&nbsp;also hit an all-time high, at more than $302 million in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>December closed out the year with strong sales totaling more than $144 million, up 6.7% compared to the previous year. But that wasn\u2019t the biggest month of 2019; instead, August topped the calendar year with $173 million in sales.<\/p>\n<p>All told, Colorado marijuana sales now have hit $7.79 billion since recreational sales began in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Truman Bradley, the newly appointed executive director of the Marijuana Industry Group, said the revenue increases in Colorado track with expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Read more via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/02\/18\/colorado-marijuana-sales-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/colorado-marijuana-sales-hit-a-record-1-75-billion-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year was the most lucrative 12 months for cannabis sales in Colorado since the state\u2019s voters legalized recreational marijuana. Medical and recreational cannabis sales&nbsp;hit a record $1.75 billion in 2019, up 13% from 2018, according to data from the Department of Revenue\u2019s Marijuana Enforcement Division.&nbsp;Marijuana tax collections&nbsp;also hit an all-time high, at more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 05:41:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}