A small town close to the Colorado-Utah state line strikes it rich with marijuana sales.
— There isn't much to this town a short drive from the national monument of the same name. A couple of gas stations, a liquor store, and a small motel line the two main drags, Brontosaurus Boulevard and Stegosaurus Freeway.— one shop for every 79 residents — is a contender for the title of cannabis capital of Colorado.
"You'd be shocked how much money comes through here," said Jim Evans, the town's treasurer."There's money running out of our ears." "Everybody in Utah goes and gets their green card and then comes here and gets their marijuana," Jackson said. To say that cannabis has transformed the appearance of town would be a stretch. It remains a sleepy little town, with little else to drive its economy. Despite the thriving marijuana trade, there still seem to be more closed businesses than open ones.
Becoming a cannabis hot spot wasn't a given. Heated debate erupted when the Town Council first considered allowing retail stores. Town leaders ultimately decided to let the residents choose at the polls. An initial ballot measure in 2010 failed. Residents agreed and renamed their home and the streets. But prosperity never followed, in part because the Colorado side of the national monument has few dinosaur fossils. It's mostly a showcase of geology.
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