Colorado and Washington were the first U.S. states to approve adult-use marijuana in 2012. Colorado's first retail marijuana shops opened to long lines and high sales. In the first week, Colorado shops raked in more than $5 million.
LUBBOCK COUNTY. Lubbock County is located in Northwest Texas on the Southern High Plains, within the larger Great Plains of the western United States. The center of the county lies at 33Â°35' north latitude and 101Â°52' west longitude. Lubbock, its largest city, is 327 miles northwest of Dallas and 122 miles south of Amarillo.
At the 2010 census, Lubbock had a population of 229,573, making it the 87th most populous city in the United States and the 11th most populous city in Texas. The city is the economic center of the Lubbock metropolitan area, which had an estimated 2009 population of 276,659. Lubbock's nickname is the Hub City, which derives from it being the economic, education, and health care hub of a multi-county region commonly called the South Plains.