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>> amendment 64 was passed on a statewide basis and never intended as a local referendum. voters in colorado springs were in favor of the measure by roughly 5,000 votes. nonetheless, the city council has chosen to opt out of recreational sales. >> colorado springs is basically a large military installation town. very conservative town, a lot of our economy is built on military. so their fear is the military bases are going to get up and go away from colorado springs. were currently in the proces...

Tax which gets rolled into the prices that people have to pay. there is the 10% sales tax for the state. plus additional local taxes. you know, we pay taxes, anything we buy pretty much, so why not have taxes for recreational marijuana? i. the problem with these taxes, these are the highest taxes of any product in colorado history ever. the other problem is we are trying to emerge from an underground market in marijuana. obviously, there is an underground market, always has been and probably alw...

Edition of and welcome back to our audience edition of hannity, stoned america. last week our producers toured a marijuana dispensary in denver, colorado, and learned pretty interesting things about how pot is being sold so openly today. and our own ainsley earhardt gives an exclusive look at a recreational marijuana store. >> reporter: when colorado voters approved legalized marijuana in november of 2012, the rocky mountain state made worldwide headlines. >> 64! >> reporter: setting in motion...

>> we know theyre not going to trash them, we just got some novelty fun items. >> agree or disagree with amendment 64, one thing is for sure, buying cannabis in colorado is now as easy as going to the corner market to pick up a loaf of bread. >> oh, my god, theyre making millions a day. we were talking in the last commercial break, there were so many people on the panel who have admitted theyre smoking pot regularly. and theyre very successful individuals. we all went to high school with that on...

Smoking things. >> we have tourism and we know they will use them for a couple days and trash them. they are not going to take them home. we have novelty fun things. >> agree or disagreement with amendment 64, one thing is for sure, buying cannabis in colorado is as easy as going to the corner market to pick up a loaf of bread. >> all right. aniesly, great report. >> thank you. >> this is big money. want them to get rich? open a dispensary. they are very successful individuals and my thought was...

Smoking things. >> we have tourism and we know they will use them for a couple days and trash them. they are not going to take them home. we have novelty fun things. >> agree or disagreement with amendment 64, one thing is for sure, buying cannabis in colorado is as easy as going to the corner market to pick up a loaf of bread. >> all right. aniesly, great report. >> thank you. >> this is big money. want them to get rich? open a dispensary. they are very successful individuals and my thought was...

They are not going to take them home. we have novelty fun things. can i help you with anything? >> reporter: agree or disagree with amendment 64, one thing is for sure. buying cannabis in colorado is now as easy as going to the corner market to pick up a loaf of bread. >> all right. aniesly, great report. >> thank you. >> this is big money. want them to get rich? open a dispensary. they are very successful individuals and my thought was we went to high school with the one guy or girl who was so ...

More people that i did not have employed last year. >> reporter: the passing of amendment 64 spawned a wealth of new pot businesses and one of the fastest growing industries is the retail marijuana market. >> thank you, guys, take care. >> reporter: more than 160 recreational pot stores now call colorado home. one of the largest of the these stores is uflora. its a one-stop shop for all things cannabis. >> its located on the 16th street mall. after the passing of amendment 64, we really kicked i...

Store in the 16th street mall in denver, colorado after passing amendment 64 we kicked it into high gear to get a place. i have ten employees right now. well probably be hiring another three to five next month because were so busy. >> its mind-blowing. >> reporter: customers can choose from 20 different varieties of cannabis with names like jack 47 and purple erkle. >> you are given a clipboard. on these four different tables we have five different strains. this is a jack 47. you can take a look...

They can fire you. >> amendment 64 allows employers to have and enforce their drug policies which means that if somebody is inclined to do drug testing and marijuana is one of the drugs they test for, somebody comes up positive on the test the employer can take whatever employment action they deem to be prudent. >> reporter: hes talking about something called amendment 64. the audio is a little distorted because there are blowers in that grow house. carol, this is going to be a really thorny, th...