Top 5 most-read stories last week: State’s marijuana industry on a downturn, snow helps open additional terrain, Alta Verde accepting leasing applicat…Posted by On


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Stories in this list received the most page views on SummitDaily.com in the past week.

1. Colorado marijuana industry experiencing ‘largest downturn that we’ve ever seen’

Colorado’s marijuana industry knows what it’s like to feel the high, but now the buzz is wearing off. Marijuana sales have declined for more than a year in the state, threatening public programs funded by the tax revenue the sales produce.

In an industry that’s built on getting high, marijuana sales are now seeing record lows.



“Right now, the Colorado marijuana industry is going through the largest downturn that we’ve ever seen,” said Truman Bradley, executive director of the Wheat Ridge-based Marijuana Industry Group. “Our industry is going through big time layoffs. Thousands of people have lost their jobs and small business owners are going under. Unfortunately, I expect that to continue into the coming year.”

— The Denver Post



2. Terrain update: more snow is expected beyond Tuesday’s forecast of 4 to 10 inches for Summit County

Summit County was under a winter weather advisory until midnight Tuesday, Dec. 6, but Summit County ski slopes were expecting more snow to accumulate later in the week. 

The storms this week elevated Summit County’s avalanche danger from moderate to high, Level 4 on a five-point…

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