Collateral Impact: No One Is Keeping Track Of Colorado's Black Market For Pot

Colorado has a legislative mandate to track and regulate the state's legal marijuana industry, which various departments meticulously do through 15 reports published throughout the year. But no state agency has oversight responsibilities for the illegal or black market, Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Patricia Billinger said. The task falls to individual law enforcement agencies to keep their own records, which are not universally shared. "Due to Colorado's home-rule organization and other factors, there simply isn't a 'real-time' statewide database of this (black market) data from the various local, state and federal law enforcement agencies that operate in Colorado," Billinger said in an email. Read more on Colorado Springs Gazette