Three years ago, Colorado legalized retail marijuana

3 years ago, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper formalized Amendment 64 into the state’s constitution. As my colleague Kristen Wyatt with the Associated Press wrote last year, “It was a procedural but important step. The governor’s executive order was the first public declaration that Colorado wouldn’t try to block marijuana legalization or ask the federal government, which considers pot illegal, to intervene.”

And here we are three years later, a slightly changed society.

In many ways, we’re largely unchanged. Some of our cities smell a little bit different in the neighborhoods housing industrial real estate and the cannabis cultivations that often call those spaces home. We’re increasingly tired of the jokes and raised eyebrows that often accompany our admissions to people we’re meeting that, “I’m from Colorado.”

But in other ways, we’re deeply changed. Back in December 2012, there was so much we didn’t know about the look and feel and...

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