Nearly one out of two tourists visiting to Colorado acknowledge that their decision is motivated by the state’s permissive attitude toward marijuana, according to the findings of a just-released study commissioned by the Colorado Tourism Office.
Among Colorado vacationers surveyed, 49 percent said that cannabis’ legal status influenced their decision, with 22 percent of them saying that it was “extremely influential.”
A record number of tourists visited the state in 2014. Recreational sales of cannabis to adults became legal in Colorado on January 1, 2014.
The results of a statewide Quinnipiac University poll commissioned this past November reported that 55 percent of Colorado voters support the state’s present marijuana policies, and that 53 percent of respondents believe that the policies have been “good for the state.”
Well, “shiver me timbers,” Who’da thunk it? “Hey Olive Oil. Hows about a road trip’s to Colorado?”
Excuse the pun. Why would this suprise anyone? Hell, if I wasn’t tied down here in “po-duck-hicksville,” I would have already been. You know, my oun litte fact-finding mission.
then after vacation they’re fired for failing a drug test. why legalize something you can’t use. How many unemployed people can buy 400 dollar ounces? There are no bragging rights here. i support legal marijuana but for ALL, NOT SOME.
[Editor’s note: Keeping cannabis prohibition in place hoping that in future everyone has low cost ganja and no one is drug tested is beyond utopian, bordering on absurd.
“Why legalize something you can’t use.”
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With less than half the US work force exposed to drug testing, tens of millions of adults enjoy cannabis, and will pay what they’re comfortable for the product; where legally possible, they can grow their own.]
There is no mayhem or lawlessness. No bodies laying along the roadside. Nothing like that. I visited Maggie’s Farm yesterday in Pueblo and I am still amazed its all real. When you walk in there is a booth where you show your ID and the door behind you is then unlocked and you walk in to a large room like a waiting room. From there you are directed to a small room that has everything you need and you show your ID again then make your purchase. Everyone is soooo nice and very helpful explaining everything to you about there product. The price is high that is true but when you are no longer breaking the law for enjoying something safe and natural its kind of worth it.
jscott,
if you don’t like drug testing, become self-employed.
I would like to see the Colorado Vacation brochure of the safe and beautiful places that are cannabis friendly.
I find it humorous that until now the Colorado tourism officials didn’t think that legal ganga had anything to do with their increase in tourism. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees!
Those fools should be using the fact it is legal there to further boost tourism if only they can get past their predjudices.
I saw a TV show where a ski resort town in Colorado didn’t want to have marijuana in their part of the state because they wanted to portray a family environment. They don’t seem to realize they are hurting their own businesses by doing so since being able to get and use ganga is a prime motivator for people when deciding how to use their vacation time.
I am planning to take my next vacation in Colorado and legal marijuana is the reason. The people working for the Colorado tourism industry really need to figure that out. It’s pretty obvious to most people with a bit of intelligence.
If more people would contact their Congressional representatives and suggest that they enact this reform to the definition of marijuana which upholds the Constitution, then all of the States could regain the local control that the citizens of Colorado have:
16. The term “marijuana” means all parts of the smoke produced by the combustion of the plant Cannabis sativa L. which is prohibited to be grown by or sold by any publicly traded corporation or subsidiary company.
This year is a good time to write them a letter.
Several of my siblings and in-laws are going to Colorado for Christmas. Marijuana isnt mentioned in public or in front of kids as the primary motivating factor, but I heard whispers about treating my nieces asthma, and even those who were not necessarily advocates are curious about rare illnesses they are hoping to cope with. As the education of the herb spreads so does th demand. The little legal medicinal buds are our best advocacy for legalization yet.
Please invest in a vaporizer and a well sealed mason jar when traveling. Dont feed the Nebraska or Oklahoma State troopers.
@Miles, here in Colorado cities can not restrict rights under state Amendment 64. Also, have you ever considered that, maybe, the reason for this study being done at all was to find out tourism steps going forward based on the results?
@Miles: You said “I find it humorous that until now the Colorado tourism officials didn’t think that legal ganga had anything to do with their increase in tourism. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees!”
Do you really think they asked people if marijuana motivated them to come because they DIDN’T think the answer might be “yes”?
You also said:
“Those fools should be using the fact it is legal there to further boost tourism if only they can get past their predjudices.”
I actually LIVE HERE, and first of all, “fools” is an ironic choice of words for you to use, considering that the study was done for the very purpose of boosting tourism and better accommodation of said tourists.
Also, in a state where 75% of people seem to be very ok with it, who is employing a “prejudice” against a pot smoker?
Finally, you said “I saw a TV show where a ski resort town in Colorado didn’t want to have marijuana in their part of the state because they wanted to portray a family environment. They don’t seem to realize…”
You don’t seem to realize that in Colorado, under A64, cities can not restrict rights granted under legalization, except that they can prohibit or limit COMMERCIAL activity. Not individual use or possession.
Legal MJ sure motivated me to vacation in Denver a couple of years ago. I’m currently saving up for my next exercise in motivation.
less than half? you are wrong. in Florida the 9 year old paperboy has to take randoms to use his bicycle to deliver papers. burrito shops drug test, and the governer owns the drug testing clinix.
I live in a state where prohibition lives strongly. I have a few friends that just went to colorado for smoke out and tourism for a week.
End prohibition!
An approach to the issue broached by @Brenton: a coalition of Coloradans, visiting relatives and tourists to set up a Workchurch (i.e. noncommercial– see the recently founded example in Indiana, but this one is industrial rather than liturgical) where for the duration of your visit you can get a SSW semivolunteer sweartshop wage for helping make flexdrawtube socket wrench one-hitters, flexdrawtube barbed hose nipple one-hitters and flexdrawtube Choomette (where the scrteened metal craterpiece is embedded in one end of a chillum-sized decorous wood or bone Handelstick leading to a flexdrawtube out the other end (see, sign in, rewrite, reillustrate free wiki article “12 Easy Ways to Make Flexdrawtube VapeToke Utensils from Everyday Objects”).
@Julian is right, purchase a gold standard storz und bickel vaporizer if you can afford it, meanwhile this one-hitter variant is “ALMOST” as good as a vaporizer but made from less than $1.29 worth of parts in honour of the Genesis versenumber everyone’s heard about.
You won’t have to dress up clean and new like a rich folk tourist to visit this Workchurch, it’s a Dirt Shirt Church where anyone with hands can “come as you are” & learn and execute production services just fine. Good luck everyone building a team to get it done, Jobs for Americans!
I am 62 yrs old and I didn’t start smoking pot until about 43. I am pretty busted up from my previous career in law enforcement. My boyfriend died six yrs ago from lung cancer. So six months ago, I told myself that no one was going to tell me ever again that I can’t smoke pot. I lived in NC. I sold most of my stuff, rented my house out, and drove 3,000 miles to CA.to a relatives. I smoke every day now, and have found that life can be better. I leave for Oregon in May to another marijuana legal state. Life is finally good!