Indopedia All Things Marijuana
Colorado’s cannabis industry may be centered in metro Denver, but there’s plenty of action around the state’s edges.
Towns like Sedgwick, near Colorado’s northern border with Nebraska, have found new economic life because of legal marijuana. Not surprisingly, according to reports, many patrons at those cannabis dispensaries are from the Cornhusker State.
Meanwhile to the south, about 15 miles from the Colorado-New Mexico state line, the city of Trinidad is going through an even larger boom thanks to sales of adult-use cannabis.
Between January and May of this year, the city’s cannabis businesses brought in $14.2 million in gross sales from legal marijuana, Trinidad city attorney Les Downs told The Cannabist. Trinidad’s sales in that span accounted for about 2 percent of the state’s overall sales of cannabis products, based on Colorado sales tax data monitored by The Cannabist.
Considering that Colorado has been averaging $100 million or more in monthly sales of legal…
