We would call upon Steamboat Springs City Council to give the retail marijuana industry here its due and lighten up on the regulatory stance that has been imposed on the $10 million industry that collects a significant measure of sales tax to help fund our city.

We also believe that it’s time for city government to revisit its stance of limiting licenses to operate marijuana retail stores to three. It has been four years since a different city council laid down the law on how many marijuana stores could operate in Ski Town USA.

During that time, the relative lack of competition is giving those three stores a virtual monopoly on a burgeoning business category. We wonder, “How did the city come to decide that only those three fortunate entrepreneurs could profit from a growth industry like cannabis retailing?”

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