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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 Day Without Marijuana Tax Draws Mixed Reactions in Colorado 🌿Day Without Marijuana Tax Draws Mixed Reactions in Colorado
DENVER — Some called it Christmas for stoners. Others warned of marijuana anarchy.
Marijuana products across Colorado were nearly tax free on Wednesday — a one-time tax break forced by a quirk in the state Constitution. The break knocked away the state’s 10 percent tax on cannabis purchases — which is imposed on top of the existing state sales tax and any municipal taxes — and marijuana shops around the state spent months coordinating their distribution plans, advertising deep discounts in addition to the tax vacation and encouraging customers to start lining up at dawn.
“I’ve been saying ‘Happy holidays’ to everybody today,” said Mandie Farrow, 21, a dry cleaner employee who had just left the Grass Station, a shop that was offering 50 percent off on top of the tax break. She grinned as she waved her purchase — four grams of a marijuana concentrate stuffed in a...
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