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Regulation of Colorado's marijuana industry is a work in progress

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 06/08/2015 - 09:23

In the final days of the 2015 legislative session, Gov. John Hickenlooper's office asked for a $300,000 earmark to fund a crackdown on toxic pesticides being used in legal marijuana grows in Colorado.

It was a last-minute scramble in response to a very real health and safety issue associated with the state's burgeoning recreational pot industry. And it typifies the frenetic frenzy with which lawmakers have attempted to get a handle on pot since voters opened the door to recreational marijuana stores in 2012.

"It's been pretty vexing. We've made headway more rapidly than we thought," Hickenlooper said. "It's hard to take something that's never been done before from scratch and create a regulatory framework."

More than 30 bills were introduced during the 2015 legislative session dealing in some way with marijuana or hemp. Twelve became law.

"The legislature is going to pass a dozen marijuana bills a year, here...

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