Colarado’s tourism on a high after cannabis legalisation; right recipe for boosting tourism in Canada and elsewhere

Even as opinion stands divided on the economic and social gains on legalising cannabis, cannabis advocates are pointing to the gains made in the tourism sector by Colorado as a case study for all countries thinking of liberalizing cannabis laws.

According to a report commissioned by the Colorado Tourism Office, half of all the tourists visiting Colorado are influenced by the liberal cannabis laws. More than 20 percent of visitors also attest that Colorado's laws were "extremely influential."

Danny Schaefer who runs My420Tours hosts more than 200 guests per week told "The Denver Post" that the Colorado cannabis industry has created the ambience similar to the wine country in California, reports tourism magazine Civilized Life. Colorado embraced cannabis with liberal laws in 2014 and is emerging as the Napa Valley and Sonoma County of cannabis, he added.

Tourists surge 

Though Colorado has not...

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