In the mid-2010s, families across the country uprooted themselves to move to Colorado for reasons unrelated to outdoor adventures or craft beer. Instead, they moved for the state’s first-in-the-nation legal marijuana laws, which allowed access to cannabis-derived products they said were essential to their or their children’s health.
With marijuana now legal for medical purposes in 40 states and legal altogether in 24, Colorado’s role as a haven for families of children with epilepsy or adults with chronic pain, among other conditions, has waned.
