{"id":9286,"date":"2020-10-12T23:27:17","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T23:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=4306478"},"modified":"2020-10-12T23:27:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T23:27:17","slug":"colorado-marijuana-sales-eclipse-200-million-again-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/colorado-marijuana-sales-eclipse-200-million-again-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado marijuana sales eclipse $200 million (again) in August"},"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-sales-eclipse-200-million-again-in-august\/\" 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\/2020\/10\/colorado-marijuana-sales-eclipse-200-million-again-in-august.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/10\/12\/marijuana-sales-colorado-august-2020\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dp-news-marijuana+%28Denver+Post%3A+News%3A+Marijuana%29&amp;utm_content=Google+UK#comments-anchor\"><span class=\"spot-im-replies-count\" data-post-id=\"4306478\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colorado dispensaries sold $218.6 million worth of marijuana in August, falling just short of the all-time monthly record, $226 million, set in July.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>Recreational sales totaled $176,566,595 for the month, while medical sales totaled $$42,034,746, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1X4kedhCZ8atvZD4zmNCKlDKVzutDTJjo\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">data<\/a> from the Colorado Department of Revenue. The state collected more than <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1o2dB01Ow8wcMTvkKj7cLDFrwLDSGeQ7y\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">$40 million in taxes and fees<\/a> from August sales.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, cannabis sales have grown exponentially this year, setting records in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/07\/13\/colorado-cannabis-marijuana-sales-record-high\/\">May<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/08\/12\/june-2020-colorado-marijuana-sales-record\/\">June<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2020\/09\/15\/marijuana-sales-record-200-million\/\">July<\/a>. Though August, typically the industry\u2019s biggest month, broke that streak, sales are up 26% compared to the same month in 2019. August also saw the debut of <a href=\"http:\/\/theknow.denverpost.com\/2020\/08\/17\/weed-vending-machine-pueblo-colorado\/243437\/\">Colorado\u2019s first contactless weed vending machine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the first eight months of 2020, consumers purchased more than $1.4 billion worth of cannabis products. Since recreational sales began in January 2014, the state\u2019s dispensaries have sold more than $9.2 billion worth of cannabis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>Colorado dispensaries sold $218.6 million worth of marijuana in August, falling just short of the all-time monthly record, $226 million, set in July. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,6811,6813,77,5577,2437,6858,9,5019,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,6816,6818,2655,5580,2443,6860,5022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286"}],"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=9286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}