Cannabis Regulations in Colorado (2026)

Colorado constitutionally permits adults to grow marijuana at home but caps the total plants per residential property…

Thornton limits home marijuana cultivation to a primary residence or its detached accessory structure, caps growth at…

Colorado Amendment 64 and C.R.S. §18-18-406 permit adults 21+ to grow up to 6 plants per adult (12 max per household…

Colorado Springs City Code Section 9.7.211 permits home cultivation of marijuana in compliance with state law. Adults…

Westminster limits adults 21 and older to growing, processing or transporting between seven and 12 marijuana plants…

Colorado hands cannabis siting to city hall: under C.R.S. 44-10-104(3), any local jurisdiction may regulate the time…

Unincorporated Arapahoe County prohibits marijuana land uses outright under Land Development Code § 3-3.5.B. The sole…

Arvada prohibits every kind of marijuana business inside city limits. Sec. 53-42 bans non-medical marijuana…

Centennial has opted out of commercial cannabis entirely: marijuana cultivation, manufacturing, testing, retail sales…

Unincorporated Douglas County has opted out of marijuana entirely: no dispensary, cultivation operation…

Unincorporated El Paso County prohibits retail marijuana stores, along with marijuana cultivation, product…

Fountain Municipal Code Chapter 9.40 prohibits marijuana cultivation facilities, product manufacturing facilities…

Greeley opted out of commercial marijuana entirely: cultivation, manufacturing, testing and retail marijuana stores…

Unincorporated Jefferson County has opted out of retail marijuana entirely: cultivation facilities, product…

Mesa County's Land Development Code lists 'Marijuana Sales' as a Table 6-1 use type with a blank cell in every zoning…

Weld County has opted out entirely: no marijuana cultivation facility, product manufacturing facility, testing…

Westminster prohibits marijuana establishments citywide: it is unlawful to operate a medical marijuana center, optional…

Licensed marijuana hospitality and retail-and-sales businesses may operate only in unincorporated Adams County's…

Aurora, Colorado has not opted out of retail marijuana: stores are licensed and capped citywide, but the UDO bars them…

Boulder licenses recreational marijuana centers but confines them to zones where personal service use is allowed by…

Colorado Springs zoning keeps marijuana businesses out of residential territory: City Code § 7.3.303F.2.a bars Medical…

Denver bars new marijuana stores within 1,000 feet of schools, child care centers, other dispensaries, and treatment…

Fort Collins keeps retail marijuana stores out of most residential zones. City Code § 15-615(a)(4) blocks a store from…

Lakewood, Colorado caps retail marijuana store licenses to businesses that already held a Lakewood medical marijuana…

Longmont bans marijuana cultivation, product manufacturing, and testing facilities citywide, carving out one narrow…

Manitou Springs confines every medical marijuana center and retail marijuana store to one narrow slice of the…

A Pueblo retail marijuana store must sit at least 1,000 feet from an operating school, 500 feet from a hospital or…

Thornton opted in to retail marijuana licensing under its home-rule authority, but the city caps the entire market at…

Loveland permits marijuana businesses only in its B (business) and I (industrial) zoning districts, and only on a site…

Adams County's Marijuana Hospitality Business ordinance bars a licensed hospitality or retail-and-sales cannabis…

Aurora bars retail marijuana stores within 1,000 feet of schools, 500 feet of hospitals, and cultivation or…

Colorado Springs keeps marijuana retailers a quarter-mile from where kids gather: City Code §§ 7.3.303F.4 and F.5…

Denver bars new marijuana store licenses within 1,000 feet of any school, child care establishment, other marijuana…

Fort Collins keeps medical marijuana stores away from places children and vulnerable residents gather. City Code §…

The City of Littleton bars medical marijuana centers and retail marijuana stores from locating within 500 feet of a…

Loveland's Local Licensing Code bars a marijuana business license within 1,000 feet of any 'youth populated area,'…

Pueblo keeps medical marijuana centers at least 1,000 feet from schools and childcare centers, 500 feet from I-25 or a…

Every marijuana establishment application filed in Thornton must include a scaled area map proving the proposed site…

Lakewood bars new medical and retail marijuana businesses from locating within 3,000 feet of each other and within…

Longmont bars a licensed marijuana store, hospitality business, or dual-use center from opening, or moving to, any site…

Manitou Springs bars a medical marijuana center or retail marijuana store from locating within five hundred feet of any…

A footnote to Mesa County's zoning Use Table requires a Conditional Use Permit for any marijuana cultivation site sited…