Dispensaries pass underage sales checks at a high rate, but the inspections aren't consistent enough, according to a state audit.
Colorado marijuana dispensaries have passed underage sales checks at a rate of 95 percent or higher since 2019, but a state audit found inconsistencies in inspections.needs to improve its enforcement, according to a state audit calling for changes in how — and how often — it does dispensary inspections and then takes disciplinary action against bad actors.
Colorado marijuana dispensaries have passed underage sales checks at a rate of 95 percent or higher since 2019, with an average of around 99 percent since July 2022, according to the MED — but it's not the pass/fail rate that concerns the Office of the State Auditor.
"Typically, underage marijuana sales should be a violation of each of these regulatory requirements," the report notes, adding that the MED"did not pursue any disciplinary action" against stores for over half of the marijuana public safety violations in the samples. The audit did not identify the stores responsible for the violations.
The MED was inconsistent in their underage compliance inspections depending on the county, the audit determined. For example, investigators did not perform underage compliance checks at any dispensary in Chaffee County for four years, but the MED did hold those inspections at every store in Larimer County. The MED also failed to inspect 32 percent of the 567 stores that had never been inspected or not been inspected within the last two years, according to the Auditor's office.
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