{"id":8409,"date":"2018-08-09T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=3161262"},"modified":"2018-08-09T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T18:13:00","slug":"denver-marijuana-sales-reach-record-high-of-587-million-sales-across-state-continue-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/denver-marijuana-sales-reach-record-high-of-587-million-sales-across-state-continue-to-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Denver marijuana sales reach record high of $587 million, sales across state continue to rise"},"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\/denver-marijuana-sales-reach-record-high-of-587-million-sales-across-state-continue-to-rise\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/denver-marijuana-sales-reach-record-high-of-587-million-sales-across-state-continue-to-rise.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Denver dispensaries sold more than $587 million in marijuana in 2017 even as sales in shops in other parts of the state continue to grow.<\/p>\n<p>Retail sales totaled $377 million in Denver,\u00a0according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denvergov.org\/content\/dam\/denvergov\/Portals\/782\/documents\/Annual_Report_2018.pdf\">city\u2019s annual report on the marijuana industry<\/a> released Thursday.\u00a0The city\u2019s revenue from all marijuana sales in 2017 grew to $44 million, a 20 percent increase from the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>Denver uses the money to pay for regulation of the marijuana industry, enforcement of its laws and drug education. It also helps pays for maintenance, affordable housing and opioid intervention.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new report demonstrates Denver\u2019s coordinated approach between multiple agencies to manage marijuana is working,\u201d Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock said in a news release. \u201cWe took on the daunting challenge of becoming the first major city in America to manage legalized recreational marijuana and we are having success.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While crime related to the drug represents less than 1 percent of all crimes committed across Denver, dispensaries remain a target for burglaries. Dispensaries make up less than 1 percent of businesses in the city, but they account for about 10 percent of all reported business burglaries.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>Denver\u2019s portion of statewide marijuana sales continues to fall as sales grow in other parts of the state, the report states. Sales in Denver represented 48 percent of total sales in 2014, but that number fell to 39 percent in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Dispensaries across Colorado sold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2018\/02\/10\/colorado-pot-sales-2017-border-towns\/\">a record of more than $1 billion of recreational marijuana products<\/a> in 2017,\u00a0a 27 percent increase from the year before.\u00a0Dispensaries statewide have sold more than $2.8 billion of recreational marijuana since the legalization of retail sales in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of medical marijuana decreased in Denver and statewide compared to 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Denver dispensaries sold more than $587 million in marijuana in 2017 even as sales in shops in other parts of the state continue to grow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,376,6847,7944,6813,77,5577,5667,56,9,6849,5019,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,2954,6850,7945,6818,2655,5580,5673,2636,6852,5022,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409"}],"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=8409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}