{"id":9506,"date":"2022-04-13T19:11:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T19:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2022\/04\/13\/colorado-marijuana-industry-regulators-under-fire-as-underage-sales-checks-nosedive\/135651\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T19:11:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T19:11:01","slug":"colorado-marijuana-industry-regulators-under-fire-as-underage-sales-checks-nosedive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/colorado-marijuana-industry-regulators-under-fire-as-underage-sales-checks-nosedive\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado marijuana industry regulators under fire as underage sales checks nosedive"},"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-industry-regulators-under-fire-as-underage-sales-checks-nosedive\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/1SM9361-560x372.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/colorado-marijuana-industry-regulators-under-fire-as-underage-sales-checks-nosedive.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/colorado-marijuana-industry-regulators-under-fire-as-underage-sales-checks-nosedive-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-website yarpp-template-yarpp-template-inarticle-right\">\n<aside class=\"article-related right\">\n<h3>Related Articles<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>On about 600 occasions in 2019, state marijuana industry regulators sent hired operatives, aged 18 to 20, into Colorado dispensaries to check that the law barring sales to people under 21 was being followed.<\/p>\n<p>Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and in 2020 state regulators reported only 118 of those checks. Last year, the number dropped to 80. This year, the Marijuana Enforcement Division says it\u2019s on pace for 52 checks, having completed 14 through March.<\/p>\n<p>The reported compliance rate was above 95% each year, but some state lawmakers say the drop-off in total checks is alarming \u2014 and they told the division\u2019s leaders that directly in a state Senate committee hearing late last month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2022\/04\/11\/marjuana-underage-enforcement-colorado-legislature\/\">Read the rest of this story on DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Related Articles On about 600 occasions in 2019, state marijuana industry regulators sent hired operatives, aged 18 to 20, into Colorado dispensaries to check that the law barring sales to people under 21 was being followed. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and in 2020 state regulators reported only 118 of those checks. Last year, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5062,5577,9,441,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5063,5580,3015],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506"}],"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=9506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}