Colorado’s marijuana industry offers glimpse of how legalization could change Minnesota – Medical Marijuana Program Connection

DENVER — Inside a discreet warehouse on this city’s outskirts, one of Colorado’s largest marijuana companies cultivates nearly 30,000 plants and processes them into products sold at its retail dispensaries.

Workers clad in safety gear shuffle between plants in the Green Solution’s facility, treating them and gauging when they’ll be ready for harvest and sale. In another room, employees inspect harvested flowers and show off a machine they say can roll 10,000 joints a day.

The Green Solution’s smooth-running facility illustrates the maturity of Colorado’s marijuana industry, which has generated $14 billion in sales and nearly $2.4 billion in tax revenue since recreational products hit shelves in 2014….