Cannabis use, businesses continue growth

When driving through Boulder and Denver, evidence of marijuana legalization is everywhere. Shops selling cannabis and paraphernalia and grow houses have proliferated since retail legalization in January 2014. About two-thirds of communities in the state have resisted the pull of marijuana revenue and don’t allow cannabis sales or cultivation. Some, like the city of Loveland, are putting the question before voters this November.   

So what has legalized marijuana meant to Colorado? The industry has created hundreds of new jobs and small businesses catering to the cultivation, sales and use of marijuana.

“It has been…