If you like pot and Republicans, and have a few Benjamins to burn, there’s an event for your social calendar Wednesday evening in Denver.

The Colorado Cannabis Industry is staging a fundraiser to re-elect Republicans to the state Senate. It’s slated for 5 to 7 p.m. at Cap City Tavern.

Individual tickets are $250 each, and sponsorship levels start at $500.

The money isn’t pledged to any specific candidates, but instead to the Senate Majority Fund, which works on behalf of the entire caucus to retain or expand on the one-seat majority the GOP holds in the upper chamber headed into next year’s election. Democrats hold a nine-seat majority in the House.

The sponsorship contacts for the fundraiser are two well-known conservative politicos, Joe Megyesy,  who can be reached at Joe@goodchem.org, and Monica Owens Beauprez, reachable at monica@Westbrookegroup.com.

Megyesy, once the press secretary for the Senate Republicans and for U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, now works for one of the events main sponsors, Good Chemistry Nurseries. The other sponsors are Terrapin Care Station, LivWell Enriched Health and Native Roots Dispensaries.

Besides being a well-regarded conservative operative, Beauprez is the daughter of Colorado’s last Republican governor, Bill Owens, and the daughter-in-law of Bob Beauprez, the two time GOP nominee for governor.

Colorado Politics has been telling you for some time that Republicans have taken an active hand in regulating and taxing marijuana in the state.

Last week, we reported on a letter we obtained that Senate Majority Leader Chris Holbert and Sens. Tim Neville and Vicki Marble sent to President Trump urging him to honor his pledge not to disrupt what Colorado voters approved in 2012.

“We were grateful for the support from this regulated industry for a Senate majority in 2014, 2016 and again in 2018,” Holbert told Colorado Politics.

Holbert was elected to the state House in 2010. He said the first time he had really spoken with industry representatives was at a similar event in 2014.

Colorado set a monthly record for marijuana sales in July, nearly $137 million.  For the first six months of the year, the industry saw $750 million in sales, according to the Department of Revenue.

A report last summer said Colorado had received more than $500 million in marijuana-related tax revenue since recreational cannabis sales began on Jan. 1, 2014.

(Editor’s note: This story was updated to include Holbert’s comment.)