{"id":2454760,"date":"2020-02-19T11:58:20","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=321154"},"modified":"2020-02-19T11:58:20","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T18:58:20","slug":"colorado-marijuana-sales-hit-record-1-75-billion-in-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/colorado-marijuana-sales-hit-record-1-75-billion-in-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado marijuana sales hit record $1.75 billion in 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/SilverPeak_HiRes005-1024x681.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/SilverPeak_HiRes005-1024x681.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/SilverPeak_HiRes005-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/10\/SilverPeak_HiRes005-768x511.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Silverpeak Apothecary opened as a medical marijuana dispensary in 2009 and in 2014, became Aspen\u2019s first adult-use cannabis retailer. <\/strong><br \/><em>Courtesy Silverpeak<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\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>Read the full story about Colorado marijuana sales from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/02\/18\/colorado-marijuana-sales-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Denver Post (opens in a new tab)\">The Denver Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/colorado-marijuana-sales-hit-record-1-75-billion-in-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silverpeak Apothecary opened as a medical marijuana dispensary in 2009 and in 2014, became Aspen\u2019s first adult-use cannabis retailer. Courtesy Silverpeak 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 [&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":["post-2454760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 14:49:15","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\/2454760","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=2454760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}