There are possibly legislators from inside the metro area that weren't all that keen on funding for rural hospitals.  It's called horse trading, where someone from Wray gets something for their district and someone from Lakewood gets something for theirs.  If you take a look at the attached link it doesn't seem to show any dispensaries in large swaths of Eastern and Western Colorado so what many of your legislators from outside the metro area are arguing about is sharing revenue that their areas don't provide.  I guess they could get away with it for one fiscal year, but the next there would be hell to pay and the metro area would want to extract it's pound of flesh. 
 http://kushtourism.com/colorado-retail-store-map-and-directory/