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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. we're currently in the process of basically trying to either put the ballot measure on the ballot ourselves or hoping they're go...

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 always will be. when you set these taxes that high, it creates more of an underground market. the promi...

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 what some call the colorado weed boom. >> this is the best in my business, it went up. 10% in the m...

>> we know they're 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, they're making millions a day. we were talking in the last commercial break, there were so many people on the panel who have admitted they're smoking pot regularly. and they're very successful individuals. we all went to high school with that one girl or guy who was so talented and had a bright future. they let all of their hopes and dream...

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 we went to high school with the one girl who was so talented and had such a bright future and let h...