{"id":20170,"date":"2017-10-13T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/colorado-reaches-1-billion-in-marijuana-sales-in-record-time\/"},"modified":"2017-10-14T00:46:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T08:46:20","slug":"colorado-reaches-1-billion-in-marijuana-sales-in-record-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/colorado-reaches-1-billion-in-marijuana-sales-in-record-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado reaches $1 billion in marijuana sales in record time"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Despite falling cannabis prices and other U.S. states legalizing recreational marijuana, it took\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/10\/11\/colorado-marijuana-sales-august-2017-tax-data\/89751\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado just eight months<\/a> to reach $1 billion in retail MJ sales in 2017 \u2013 a record clip for the state.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, by contrast, it took Colorado 10 months to hit the $1 billion sales mark.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Post reported that Colorado marijuana retailers had amassed $1.02 billion in combined recreational and medical marijuana sales through August.<\/p>\n<p>In August itself, sales of flower, edibles, concentrates and accessories totaled nearly $137 million.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While Colorado has one of the oldest regulated cannabis markets in<\/span><\/p>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/colorado-reaches-1-billion-marijuana-sales-record-time\/\">Colorado reaches $1 billion in marijuana sales in record time<\/a> is a post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\">Marijuana Business Daily: Financial, Legal &amp; Cannabusiness news for cannabis entrepreneurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nRead More: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjbizdaily.com\/colorado-reaches-1-billion-marijuana-sales-record-time\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado reaches  billion in marijuana sales in record time<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite falling cannabis prices and other U.S. states legalizing recreational marijuana, it took\u00a0Colorado just eight months to reach $1 billion in retail MJ sales in 2017 \u2013 a record clip for the state. In 2016, by contrast, it took Colorado 10 months to hit the $1 billion sales mark. The<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2017\/10\/13\/colorado-reaches-1-billion-in-marijuana-sales-in-record-time\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,1989,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20171,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20170\/revisions\/20171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}