Colorado medical-marijuana businesses have declined by 40 percent

In the summer of 2010, after legislators passed a law legitimizing dispensaries, there were 1,117 medical-marijuana businesses in Colorado, according to lists provided by the state’s Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division and tallied by The Denver Post. (The number includes both dispensaries and makers of marijuana-infused products.) By the end of that year, as a “green rush” of cannabis entrepreneurs reached its apex, the total ticked up to 1,131. Today, there are 675. In terms of sheer numbers, Colorado’s medical-marijuana industry has shrunk by more than 40 percent, Denver Post reports.

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