More Than $1 Million Worth Of Marijuana Sold In Colorado On First Day Of Legalisation!

A long line of buyers trails from a store selling marijuana in Pueblo West, Colorado (Picture: AP)

Cannabis shop owners in Colorado believe they have shifted more than $1 million worth of the drug just a day after it was legalised in the state.

Supporters counted down the seconds and critics furrowed brows as pot was cleared for recreational use on Wednesday, with no-one really knowing what kind of demand to expect.

Fierce winter weather didn’t seem to slow down customers at the first legal pot shops however, with NBC 9 News reporting that sales have already topped $1 million.

A marijuana store owner celebrates just before opening her doors to customers for the first time in Northglenn, Colorado (Picture: Reuters)

Snow fell on long queues at the stores, but as one deliveryman who drove from Michigan for the opening said: ‘This wait is nothing.

‘It’s a huge deal for me to be part of the legal weed experiment,’ he added.

The world was watching as the state launched the new system – the world’s first fully legal cannabis industry – which requires no doctor’s note as with 18 other US states.

An employee brings out a display of drug-infused candies at the Botana Care marijuana store (Picture: Reuters)

So far 24 pot shops have been opened, most of them in Denver, with everything apparently going without a hitch bar a few shoppers cited for smoking in public.

‘Everything’s gone pretty smoothly,’ said Barbara Brohl, Colorado’s top marijuana regulator as head of the Department of Revenue.

A Metro Newspaper Report.