Small Colorado Communities Find Marijuana’s Benefits, Costs

DENVER (AP) – The mayor of a tiny Denver-area town looks forward to filling pot holes with pot revenue. The prospect of marijuana tax proceeds also has raised spirits in a Colorado mountain county facing the closure of a major mine.
But across the state that has been a legal marijuana pioneer, small communities are finding costs as well. Staff can barely keep up with licensing applications and keep tabs on the new businesses.
Jason Warf, head of the Southern Colorado Cannabis Council, an i