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A medical cannabis dispensary in Denver, Colorado.. A cannabis retail outlet (also known as cannabis shop, cannabis dispensary, cannabis store, cannabis cooperative) is a location at which cannabis is sold or otherwise dispensed, either for recreational or for medical use.
As of April 20, 2010 Denver has two hundred fifty medical marijuana dispensaries in operation and Boulder had one hundred. More than sixty thousand patients held red cards with a six-month waiting list to be added to the growing registry. [4] Experts estimated there may be as many as 100,000 patients in the system. [4]
In Colorado, cannabis has been legal for medical use since 2000 and for recreational use since late 2012. On November 7, 2000, 54% of Colorado voters approved Amendment 20, which amended the State Constitution to allow the use of marijuana in the state for approved patients with written medical consent.
In 2000, medical cannabis initiatives were passed in the states of Colorado and Nevada, with Nevada's initiative passing for a second consecutive election as required to amend the state's constitution. [77] Also in 2000, Hawaii became the first state to legalize medical cannabis through an act of state legislature. [16]
Colorado has legalized both the medicinal and recreational use of marijuana, and many parents have flocked there with their suffering children in search of Charlotte's Web and other forms of medical marijuana. [59] In November 2013, CBS Denver reported that "[t]here is now a growing community of 93 families with epileptic children using ...
This saw the establishment of voluntary hospitals offering in-patient and dispensaries offering out-patient treatment. By 1800 dispensaries dealt with at least 10,000 admissions per year. [2] There are competing claims to where the first dispensary was founded but it is clear that dispensaries began being established in numbers from 1770 ...
A long line of people wait in line for the 10:00 a.m. opening of the Great Smokies Cannabis Company dispensary in Cherokee, NC on Saturday, September 7, 2024.
Colorado Springs is the county seat of El Paso county, the second most populous county in the state. A tiny majority of El Paso county voters approved the statewide Amendment 64 with an original margin of only 10 votes. [50] In Colorado Springs the measure won by just 2% favored by only 5,000 out of more than 200,000 ballots cast. [51]