Marijuana dispensaries in Aspen, Colorado, outsold city liquor stores during the months of March and April last year, according to newly released numbers.
The affluent resort town only has seven sanctioned pot shops, but combined they sold $998,418 in recreational and medicinal marijuana during March 2015, the Aspen Times reported on Thursday, citing statistics from the city’s Finance Department.
Alcohol sales that month clocked in at around $140,000 less, the AspenTimes said.
And while marijuana sales nearly shrank by half in April — the city reports that dispensaries sold only $455,935 worth of marijuana that month — pot retailers once again outsold liquor stores, albeit by only around $13,000.
All told, Aspen’s seven dispensaries sold $8,347,557 worth of medical and recreational pot during 2015, the second year that shops across the state have been allowed to sell marijuana to adults over the age of 21 regardless of whether they’ve been prescribed pot by a doctor.
“That’s an incredible number,” Aspen Assistant Police Chief Bill Linn told the newspaper. “That’s impressive.”
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But y'all is so scared of having pot be legal and grown in MD. Won't change and keep getting left behind while complaining about how bad the economy is. So pathetic.
ReplyDeleteThis is only counting liquor store sales. By the drink sales added to the liquor store numbers would still put alcohol ahead.
ReplyDeleteIt's a fair comparison since you can't buy weed by the joint in a bar or smokeshop. Counting retail sales is the only measure and the real point is that pot is a money maker for the grower, distributor, retailer and the state income tax man.
ReplyDeleteLegal purchase of either should be compared. Legal cannabis sales can and do include small sales, which can be of a volume small enough to produce only a single joint. The report numbers are skewed using only the liquor store-cannabis store comparison, unless the alcohol sales also include the amount consumed by customers or, in a pinch, the amount purchased by bars from suppliers to replenish stock from month to month.
ReplyDeletePot is a better drug then booze. 100 percent less damaging to the body and to all the People effected by a drunk.
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