{"id":105143,"date":"2016-05-13T17:24:31","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T23:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-pot-businesses-sell-270-million-this-year\/"},"modified":"2016-05-13T17:24:31","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T23:24:31","slug":"colorado-pot-businesses-sell-270-million-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/colorado-pot-businesses-sell-270-million-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado pot businesses sell $270 million this year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>DENVER \u2013 New state figures show that Colorado marijuana shops sold more than $270 million in the first three months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Post reports  that the data from the Colorado Department of Revenue says that more than $170 million of that total was for recreational marijuana sales and the remaining $100 million was for medical pot.<\/p>\n<p>Marijuana businesses sold nearly $90 million of pot in March, a slight drop from February, which was the state\u2019s fifth most profitable month for sales since they began in January 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The taxes collected from retail pot sales in March totaled $3.5 million, which will go toward school construction projects. Analysts expect that number to reach $40 million for all of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Colorado marijuana businesses sold more than $996 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2013 New state figures show that Colorado marijuana shops sold more than $270 million in the first three months of the year. The Denver Post reports that the data from the Colorado Department of Revenue says that more than $170 million of that total was for recreational marijuana sales and the remaining $100 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5742,5735],"tags":[135],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-105143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-marijuana"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105143","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=105143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105143"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=105143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}