Colorado regulators are touting another successful year of nearly perfect marijuana business compliance with state laws prohibiting the sale of cannabis to underage youth—with 99 percent of retailers checking IDs to verify the age of covert investigators.
The state’s Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) said in a newsletter sent on Thursday that investigators conducted 469 underage compliance checks in 2025 “as part of its focus on preventing youth access to marijuana.”
“The compliance rate on those checks was 99 percent,” it said. “The MED also conducted investigations into an additional 309 licenses last year related to preventing youth access.”
A recent report on regulatory and enforcement activity from MED detailed the division’s broader investigatory efforts last year, including inspections of more than 2,800 cannabis business licenses (about 235 per month). Of those licensee checks, 846 resulted in administrative action by the state’s licensing authority and about $1.1 million in fine assessments.
“The MED also continued to refine processes to address product and consumer safety concerns, issuing 17 Health & Safety Advisories in 2025 that alerted consumers to potential contamination risks in regulated marijuana products,” it added. “Health & Safety Advisories are issued for regulated marijuana that was sold to the public
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