{"id":7047,"date":"2016-12-12T22:35:39","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=2278049"},"modified":"2016-12-12T22:35:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T22:35:39","slug":"colorado-marijuana-shops-sold-more-than-1-billion-of-cannabis-in-first-10-months-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/colorado-marijuana-shops-sold-more-than-1-billion-of-cannabis-in-first-10-months-of-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado marijuana shops sold more than $1 billion of cannabis in first 10 months of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/colorado-marijuana-shops-sold-more-than-1-billion-of-cannabis-in-first-10-months-of-2016\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><strong>By Ricardo Baca,<\/strong> <em>The Cannabist Staff<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the first 10 months of 2016, Colorado marijuana shops reached a significant milestone they had barely missed in all of 2015: $1 billion in legal, regulated cannabis sales.<\/p>\n<p>Recreational and medical cannabis shops in America\u2019s first 420-legal state have sold nearly $1.1 billion of marijuana and related products in 2016, according to the new October data from the state\u2019s Department of Revenue.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>When 2015\u2019s year-end marijuana tax data was finally released in February, Cannabist calculations showed $996,184,788 in sales at Colorado marijuana shops that year \u2014 spurring a leading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2016\/02\/09\/colorado-marijuana-sales-2015-reach-996-million\/47886\/\">industry attorney to tell us at the time<\/a>, \u201cI think it\u2019s ethical to round that up to a billion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2016\/12\/12\/colorado-marijuana-shops-pot-taxes-sales\/69189\/\">Read the full story at thecannabist.co<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first 10 months of 2016, Colorado marijuana shops reached a significant milestone they had barely missed in all of 2015: $1 billion in legal, regulated cannabis sales. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,6811,6813,77,5577,6815,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,6816,6818,2655,5580,6820,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}