Fort Collins' marijuana industry still budding

Fort Collins' budding marijuana industry started the year with two new retail stores.

Kind Care of Colorado and Natural Alternatives for Health both recently expanded beyond medical marijuana. The stores bring the number of retail pot shops in Fort Collins to eight.

The number of licensed marijuana retailers operating in the city doubled during the second half of 2015.

Natural Alternatives started selling marijuana for recreational use on Dec. 29 after submitting an application for a retail license in May. The company hopes an expansion of its 1,500-square-foot growing facility will follow.

"We’re kind of limited on our grow right now," said Richard Kennedy, general manager. "We weren’t really meeting our demand, and we needed to expand. The only way to expand is to bring in more money."

Kind Care was also looking to bring in more money when the store added retail marijuana sales Tuesday.

"When we went from medical to retail, it became a completely...

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