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Colorado’s First Report: Nearly 5 Million Marijuana Edibles Sold Last Year

Nearly 5 million marijuana-infused edibles and almost 150,000 pounds of cannabis flower were purchased in legal Colorado stores and dispensaries in 2014, yet only 67 of Colorado’s 321 total jurisdictions allow the sale of medical and recreational pot, according to an encompassing and unprecedented new report from the state.

The Marijuana Enforcement Division’s first annual report, issued Friday, is one of the most important documents to date in Colorado’s marijuana experiment because it’s the first to give complete, state-sanctioned statistics on what marijuana looked like in its first full year of recreational sales.

“The Marijuana Enforcement Division feels that it is imperative to remain transparent on such a highly publicized issue in Colorado,” Lewis Koski, director of the Marijuana Enforcement Division, said in a statement. “It is the goal of MED to ensure that information of this nature is made available so that the public can fully understand the scope and nature of this newly regulated industry.”

There’s a lot to learn about “the scope and nature” of marijuana in Colorado. Some of the new information backed up what many industry experts predicted on topics such as cannabis-infused edibles. Other findings, including purchasing trends on marijuana flower (a.k.a. dried buds), came as surprises.  [Read more at The Denver Post]

 

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