Pubdate: Fri, 13 Feb 2015
Source: Denver Post (CO)
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Author: Ricardo Baca

COLORADO'S POT SALES REACH $ 700 MILLION IN 2014

If we're rounding up, Colorado sold a cool $ 700 million of marijuana 
in 2014- a. k. a. the first full year of recreational pot sales in 
the modern world.

For those who like exact numbers, the state's total sales tallies for 
medical and recreational cannabis added up to $ 699,198,805, 
according to Cannabist calculations based on new data from the state 
Department of Revenue.

Broken down, that's $ 385.9 million for medical marijuana and $ 313.2 
million for recreational cannabis. "That's an insane number, isn't 
it?" said Caitlin Murphy, director of marketing at the Emerald Fields 
dispensary group, which will open its second recreational pot shop in 
Manitou Springs in mid- March. "We have very high hopes for the 
industry and where it's going, and we know that the growth is going 
to be even bigger this year."

Other industry leaders reveled Thursday in the 2014 final sales tally
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