Saturday, February 7, 2015

$573 million in pot sales: 12 stats that defined cannabis' year

We can opine anecdotally on how legal marijuana sales changed Colorado in 2014, and we've done just that recently — read my "year in the life of the world's first marijuana editor" essay here.

But since we're journalists we also track down the hard numbers that show legal marijuana's definitive impact on the state in this first year of recreational pot sales. And a glance at the numbers, statistics and calculations below will give you a very clear picture of what legal, regulated, first-of-its-kind marijuana looks like in the Rocky Mountains.

Read more...  http://www.thecannabist.co/2014/12/26/pot-sales-taxes-statistics/26031/