DENVER — While federal law makes their entire industry illegal, many marijuana store owners, growers and retailers fear something completely different: Big Tobacco.
The Colorado Department of Revenue Monday released temporary rules for the operation of legal marijuana commerce, providing more details on what the nascent industry will look like, but still leaving many complicated matters unresolved.
People living in the United States are used to politics and ideology trumping fact and science. As someone who shuttled between the US and the Netherlands for several decades, I always marveled at the difference in the way the two countries treated social issues. Dutch policies towards drugs, sex and sex education, support of the arts, and pulling people into the middle class were models for progressives throughout Europe and North America.
A majority of Washington voters lean toward supporting legalized marijuana in the state, but many say they “need to know more,” according to a newly released Elway Poll.
As Montana lawmakers debated the fallout of Montana's medical marijuana law Wednesday, some of the same points were playing out in a Missoula County courtroom.