Superior blazes trail toward legal weed sales

SUPERIOR — Spark it up, Superior — retail cannabis sales are now allowed in town limits. 

“We’ve seen 10 years of (the legal recreational marijuana industry) in Colorado and the state isn’t worse off because of it. Superior needs to get with the program,” Superior Mayor Mark Lacis said Monday night when the town’s Board of Trustees approved an ordinance that sets the conditions for dispensaries to potentially open up shop in the eastern Boulder County community. 

Superior officials decided in 2013 to ban cannabis sales, cultivation and production businesses. Erie is the only other Boulder County jurisdiction…