{"id":101446,"date":"2018-02-09T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/aspen-marijuana-sales-top-liquor-sales-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T12:01:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:01:46","slug":"aspen-marijuana-sales-top-liquor-sales-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/aspen-marijuana-sales-top-liquor-sales-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen marijuana sales top liquor sales for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\" data-naviga-align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d2881663-39fd-4fa1-8523-bcba7aa09edb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d2881663-39fd-4fa1-8523-bcba7aa09edb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d2881663-39fd-4fa1-8523-bcba7aa09edb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d2881663-39fd-4fa1-8523-bcba7aa09edb&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"992\" height=\"1493\" alt=\"Marijuana sales in Aspen last year topped liquor sales in the mountain town for the first time.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Marijuana sales in Aspen last year topped liquor sales in the mountain town for the first time.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Hope Nealson\/Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Aspen Times reports the city\u2019s Finance Department in its year-end sales tax report for 2017 says legal-pot sellers hauled in $11.3 million in revenue last year compared with $10.5 million for liquor stores, marking the first time marijuana sales outpaced alcohol for the year in Aspen.<\/p>\n<p>The report says cannabis revenue last year also marked a 16 percent improvement over 2016, which produced $9.7 million in sales. The marijuana industry also enjoyed the biggest rate of growth last year among the city\u2019s 12 retail sectors.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows Aspen\u2019s retailers combined to generate $730.4 million in revenue, 2 percent better than 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marijuana sales in Aspen last year topped liquor sales in the mountain town for the first time.Hope Nealson\/Journal file The Aspen Times reports the city\u2019s Finance Department in its year-end sales tax report for 2017 says legal-pot sellers hauled in $11.3 million in revenue last year compared with $10.5 million for liquor stores, marking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5735],"tags":[135,1610],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-101446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-marijuana","tag-recreational-marijuana"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101446"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=101446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}