Colorado Legalizes Marijuana Sales, Dispensaries Now Open

Colorado Legalizes Recreational Marijuana Sales, Dispensaries Open Their Doors on New Year’s Day

By Ashley Curtin – NationofChange News Report – January 2, 2014.

While the world celebrated the New Year, marijuana businesses in Colorado celebrated as they opened their doors to a regulated marijuana market for adults. Yesterday marked the historical and legal sale of recreational marijuana to adults 21 years of age and older. Colorado not only became the first state to legalize the sale of marijuana to select dispensaries, the state’s government was the first to “control and regulate a legal recreational marijuana industry” in the world.

Amendment 64, which legalized the sale of recreational marijuana, was approved by Colorado voters in 2012 and the state worked quickly to “implement the laws allowing approved marijuana businesses to open on New Year’s Day,” according to The Huffington Post.

And while the law will allow more than 300 dispensaries to operate legally, only a few dozen businesses completed the approval process in time to open yesterday. According to the Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED), which regulates the state’s recreational marijuana industry, the state anticipates many more marijuana businesses to open as they wait to receive their state and local licenses after going through rigorous audits and screenings in order to operate legally.  [Read more]

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