Small Town is Only Place with Dispensaries for NE Colorado

The small town of Garden City, Colorado, is the only town within 4,000 square miles where it’s legal to purchase marijuana for recreational use.

Local dispensary owner, Erica Pilch, says that they get customers driving from as far as 2 hours away just to purchase marijuana because it isn’t offered where they live. Garden City, a town with a population of just 300 people, is starting to see some serious tax revenue already from this. With strictly medicinal sales, Garden City brought in $250,000 in 2013 alone. With the massive on pour of recreational marijuana users, that figure is going to be a lot higher in 2014.

Brian Seifred, the town’s mayor used some of this extra cash to trim the trees of everyone in town free of charge, as well as giving out matching grants for various town projects. “It’s great that the law was written in a way that each community can make their own decision,” Seifred says.