So, this is Pueblo County, and this is where all the pot stuff started,
and this whole area was filled with pot stuff.
Karen Randall lives in Pueblo, Colorado,
one of the first cities in the country to develop a legal marijuana industry.
We're in cannabis country here.
I'll show you the greenhouses over there you can see.
Karen took our colleague Julie Werner out on a tour of Pueblo late last year.
As they drove around, they spotted signs of the cannabis industry everywhere.
I mean, that looks like a giant sort of like industrial warehouse size building.
Yeah, exactly.
I guess I'm just surprised how packed together it all is.
And you can smell it.
Can you smell the pot?
Oh yeah.
That's signature smell was hard to miss.
And yet, many of the marijuana greenhouses and dispensaries that Julie saw seemed to be shuttered.
Well, it looks like a lot of abandoned businesses.
You see anything in there?
It looks empty, right?
So this is a big pot place.