The Colorado Department of Revenue’s Marijuana Enforcement Division announced this week that the compliance rate for underage sales checks reached a record high 99% in 2022.

Marijuana Moment reports:

Colorado marijuana regulators announced this week that out of 285 underage sales checks conducted at state-licensed cannabis stores this year, there have been only four failures—a compliance rate of about 99 percent.

“While any failure is unacceptable,” the Colorado Department of Revenue’s Marijuana Enforcement Division (MED) said in the latest issue of its quarterly In the Weeds newsletter on Monday, “we’re pleased to report this very high compliance rate which is on par with the compliance percentage from 2022.”

While compliance rates reached a record high last year, they have long been in line (or often better) than compliance rates for alcohol and tobacco sellers. This may be one reason why rates of teen cannabis use have not increased — and even declined — since Colorado legalized cannabis for adults back in 2012.