The State prohibits sales of items below cost for a commercial advantage. This is rarely enforced but you see examples of it in the liqueur industry and in gas sales. The supermarket chains got in trouble a few years ago for selling gas below cost.

C.R.S. 12-43.3-402 attempts to fix this situation but in doing so only allows below cost sales only to people in hospice care and individuals that have been designated indigent by a state health agency.

MMED claims that they are going to address the "samples" issue, both in regard to MIP to MMC owner and MMC owner to patient, in the next round of rule making.