Colorado Marijuana Tour Freaks Out, Confuses Massachusetts Lawmakers

Massachusetts state senator Jason Lewis during his tour of a Denver-area dispensary. A video and more below.

Last month, we reported about a Colorado marijuana fact-finding mission involving officials from Indio, California.

Their tour featured plenty of input from local law-enforcement reps who emphasized problems with legal cannabis — and afterward, Indio's city council authored a proposal to ban medical marijuana there.

A similar journey through the Colorado marijuana business was conducted last week by a gaggle of state senators from Massachusetts, which will consider a proposal to legalize recreational marijuana during the 2016 election.

And once again, the visiting politicos appear to have focused more on negatives than positives — with at least one of them seeming completely befuddled by what he saw.

The jaunt was led by Massachusetts state senator Jason Lewis, who kept constituents abreast of developments while in Colorado via his Facebook page.

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