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  • Colorado’s Rollout of Legal Marijuana Is Succeeding

    Colorado’s Rollout of Legal Marijuana Is Succeeding

    August 9, 2014 at 4:01 am / Cannabis News, Marijuana Legalization

    In November 2012, Colorado voters decided to experiment with marijuana, passing a constitutional amendment legalizing recreational cannabis. It was a bold move, but it also required quick, bold, and unprecedented action on the part of the state government to implement the policy. Colorado needed to set up a legal, regulatory, and tax system so that product would be available in dispensaries by January 1, 2014. As part of an examination of Colorado’s implementation and rollout, Brookings’ John Hudak spent a week [...]

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  • Since Marijuana Legalization, Highway Fatalities in Colorado are at Near-Historic Lows

    Since Marijuana Legalization, Highway Fatalities in Colorado are at Near-Historic Lows

    August 5, 2014 at 7:10 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization

    Since Colorado voters legalized pot in 2012, prohibition supporters have warned that recreational marijuana will lead to a scourge of “drugged divers” on the state’s roads. They often point out that when the state legalized medical marijuana in 2001, there was a surge in drivers found to have smoked pot. They also point to studies showing that in other states that have legalized pot for medical purposes, we’ve seen an increase in the number of drivers testing positive for the drug who were involved [...]

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  • Former Prison May Be Converted Into A Marijuana Shop

    Former Prison May Be Converted Into A Marijuana Shop

    August 4, 2014 at 7:15 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization

    In a fitting encapsulation of how the tables have turned on U.S. marijuana policy, a former correctional facility in rural Colorado may one day be the site of a marijuana dispensary. Earlier this year, Nicholas Erker, an agricultural businessman from the region, purchased the High Plains Correctional Facility in Brush, Colorado, on the rural plains about 100 miles northeast of Denver. Erker has already put in a formal request to the Brush City Council to lift the moratorium on the [...]

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  • The Great Colorado Weed Experiment

    The Great Colorado Weed Experiment

    August 3, 2014 at 7:28 pm / Cannabis News, Marijuana Decriminalization, Marijuana Legalization

    In January, Colorado defied the federal government and stepped with both feet into the world of legal recreational marijuana, where no state had gone before. For seven months Coloradans have been lawfully smoking joints and inhaling cannabis vapors, chewing marijuana-laced candies and chocolates, drinking, cooking and lotioning with products infused with cannabis oil. They are growing their own weed, making their own hash oil and stocking up at dispensaries marked with green crosses and words like “health,” “wellness” and “natural [...]

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  • World's First Marijuana Legalization Bills Signed into Law

    World’s First Marijuana Legalization Bills Signed into Law

    May 28, 2013 at 5:18 pm / Cannabis Events, Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization

    by Matt Ferner Matt.Ferner@huffingtonpost.com On Tuesday, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper signed several historic measures to implement marijuana legalization in the state, establishing Colorado as the world’s first legal, regulated and taxed marijuana market for adults. Hickenlooper, a vocal opponent of marijuana legalization who said that “Colorado is known for many great things, marijuana should not be one of them,” signed the first bills in history to establish a legal marijuana market as well as starting the development of a regulatory [...]

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