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What Colorado's Legal Marijuana Sellers Want to Tell the 2016 Republican Candidates
Boulder, Colorado — The theme of CNBC's Republican primary presidential debate may be "Your Money, Your Vote," but residents of the idyllic mountainside city where the debate will be held are more curious about the candidates' stances on a different kind of green: legalized marijuana.
The town, affectionately nicknamed "The People's Republic of Boulder" for its liberal politics and New Age vibe, is home to nearly three dozen pot dispensaries, many of which are heavily trafficked by the 30,000 students who attend the town's flagship university.
"We're a very legitimate industry now, and we've gotta take the taboo out of it," Zach Peale, a general manager at Headquarters Cannabis Co., told Mic. "It's a huge market, it's a forever-growing industry and there are going to be tons of jobs. I've already seen that firsthand just from being in Boulder."
Nearly three years after the passage of Colorado's Amendment 64, the popular ballot initiative that legalized the commercial sale and personal use of marijuana across the state, liberal Boulder has been at the forefront of local economies across the state reaping the financial benefits of legal weed. Taxes on grow operations, medical sales and recreational marijuana transactions in 2015 have added $1,932,108 to the city's coffers — and that was just in the first five months of 2015.
Link: http://mic.com/articles/127513/what...s-want-to-tell-the-2016-republican-candidates
Boulder, Colorado — The theme of CNBC's Republican primary presidential debate may be "Your Money, Your Vote," but residents of the idyllic mountainside city where the debate will be held are more curious about the candidates' stances on a different kind of green: legalized marijuana.
The town, affectionately nicknamed "The People's Republic of Boulder" for its liberal politics and New Age vibe, is home to nearly three dozen pot dispensaries, many of which are heavily trafficked by the 30,000 students who attend the town's flagship university.
"We're a very legitimate industry now, and we've gotta take the taboo out of it," Zach Peale, a general manager at Headquarters Cannabis Co., told Mic. "It's a huge market, it's a forever-growing industry and there are going to be tons of jobs. I've already seen that firsthand just from being in Boulder."
Nearly three years after the passage of Colorado's Amendment 64, the popular ballot initiative that legalized the commercial sale and personal use of marijuana across the state, liberal Boulder has been at the forefront of local economies across the state reaping the financial benefits of legal weed. Taxes on grow operations, medical sales and recreational marijuana transactions in 2015 have added $1,932,108 to the city's coffers — and that was just in the first five months of 2015.
Link: http://mic.com/articles/127513/what...s-want-to-tell-the-2016-republican-candidates
