Booze and weed have been locked in a viscious bloodlust for the last forever, with both sides claiming that they're better than the other. Alcohol gives you the balls to make out with your married boss, but weed doesn't kill you. There's no clear winner, and, until today, it looked like America's two favorite indulgences would be playing Isreal vs. Palestine for a very long time.

Booze and weed have been locked in a viscious bloodlust for the last forever, with both sides claiming that they're better than the other. Alcohol gives you the balls to make out with your married boss, but weed doesn't kill you. There's no clear winner, and, until today, it looked like America's two favorite indulgences would be playing Isreal vs. Palestine for a very long time.

But not anymore. Because today, data has come out that reveals that in Colorado, the two have been working together to facilitate your party-guy-mode. That's right; newly legalized marijuana has actually increased booze sales in our state, despite fears from distillers and brewers that it people would start forgoing booze for bud.

This is especially true in Denver, which saw an increase of 6.7 percent from $7.3 to $7.8 million between January and April of this year. Though alcohol sales have been slowly increasing in the Denver area over the past few years, this most recent jump is significantly larger, and larger than in other states as well.

Across all of Colorado however, sales are up about two percent. Alcohol sales only increased by about 0.6 percent across the country during the same time period.

The state may have tourists to thank for the growth in getting-wasted profits.According to the Colorado Department of Revenue, 44 percent of marijuana purchased in metro areas and 90 percent purchased in more rural mountain towns was bought by visitors to the state.

It's too early to tell whether legalized weed is a direct cause of Colorado's increased alcohol consumption or whether Coloradans just suddenly decided, as a superorganism, to consume more Mike's Hard Cranberry Lemonade. If anything though, these findings definitely quell brewers and distillers worries that weed would win the inebriation battle, and puts the issue that legalized weed would bankrupt other industries to rest.

Looks like getting crunk is Colorado's new favorite pastime. Way to work together, weed and alcohol. United we stand … well sort of, we're staggering all over the place, can someone call us a cab?