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No pot samples at Cannabis Cup? Fans will be the ones missing out

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 04/17/2015 - 17:41

If the 2014 High Times Cannabis Cup felt a little too good to be true, Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division (a.k.a. the MED) confirmed that with an early-April memo that warned licensed Colorado businesses exhibiting at the Cup about what exactly is and is not allowed this year.

Giving out samples? Banned. Being in an area designated for consumption? Think twice about that. Buying marijuana and personally giving it away? Absolutely prohibited.

(Mind you, these regulations apply to Colorado-licensed marijuana businesses only. Individuals can still legally bring pot to the Cup and share it. And the word is some out-of-state marijuana businesses are still planning on sampling their goods at the Cup, but how they got their cannabis to Colorado raises other questions.)

These late-in-the-game regulatory changes are’t exactly welcome news to an industry that...

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