{"id":2440468,"date":"2019-02-12T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=298120"},"modified":"2019-02-12T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T19:15:53","slug":"dept-of-revenue-colorado-pot-sales-crack-6-billion-since-2014-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/dept-of-revenue-colorado-pot-sales-crack-6-billion-since-2014-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Dept. of revenue: Colorado pot sales crack $6 billion since 2014 legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado marijuana businesses have sold more than $6 billion worth of weed and related products since a voter-approved measure allowing adults over the age of 21 to consume recreational pot\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2014\/02\/08\/legalized-marijuana-10-defining-moments-of-jan-2014\/\">took effect in the state on Jan. 1, 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The milestone figure was highlighted Tuesday\u00a0in a news release from the Colorado Department of Revenue&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.gov\/pacific\/revenue\/media-center-marijuana-enforcement-division\">Marijuana Enforcement Division<\/a>, the agency tasked with overseeing both recreational and medical cannabis businesses in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado crossed the $6 billion sales threshold thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/02\/10\/colorado-pot-sales-2017-border-towns\/\">a record-setting 2018<\/a>. Sales surpassed $1.55 billion for the year, beating the record of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/02\/10\/colorado-pot-sales-2017-border-towns\/\">more than $1.51 billion set in 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The sales have Colorado on the cusp of another milestone: $1 billion in marijuana tax, licensing and fee revenue. As of the end of January, the state had collected $927 million from those categories \u2014 covering both recreational and medical marijuana businesses \u2014 since adult-use pot became legal in 2014. Colorado collected more than $266.5 million in taxes, fees and licensing payments in 2018 alone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/02\/12\/colorado-marijuana-sales-6-billion-since-legalization\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story from The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/dept-of-revenue-colorado-pot-sales-crack-6-billion-since-2014-legalization\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado marijuana businesses have sold more than $6 billion worth of weed and related products since a voter-approved measure allowing adults over the age of 21 to consume recreational pot\u00a0took effect in the state on Jan. 1, 2014. The milestone figure was highlighted Tuesday\u00a0in a news release from the Colorado Department of Revenue&#8217;s\u00a0Marijuana Enforcement Division, [&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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2440468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 18:30:41","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}