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When it comes to marijuana, forget the joint! People in Colorado—both Coloradoans and tourists—are enjoying cannabis in all kinds of new ways. “Most people don’t want to smoke,” says Troy Dayton, CEO of The ArcView Group, a private marijuana investment and market research firm based in Colorado. “I think that the future is not going to be smoking of cannabis. It’s going to be all the other things. So there’s a huge, huge boom in alternative forms of ingestion.”

Alternative forms include every kind of edible imaginable (candies, cookies, butters, cooking oils), vaporizer pens, concentrates, tinctures and rubs.  Read more

CNBC  | by  Celia Watson Seupel