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Home 🌿 Recreational Marijuana News 🌿 6 takeaways from Colorado narcotics cop Jim Gerhardt's marijuana legalization warning to Massachusetts legislators 🌿6 takeaways from Colorado narcotics cop Jim Gerhardt's marijuana legalization warning to Massachusetts legislators
Colorado cop Jim Gerhardt, whose state legalized marijuana for recreational use in 2012, has a message for Massachusetts voters and lawmakers weighing whether the Bay State should do the same.
"My message is: Slow down. Study what's going on," he said after speaking with state legislators at the State House.
Gerhardt, an officer in Thornton, Colo., and vice president of the Colorado Drug Investigators Association, said marijuana is the "most highly regulated industry in the entire state" of Colorado.
In Massachusetts, the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol hopes to place a measure legalizing marijuana on the November statewide ballot.
While politically popular officials like Gov. Charlie Baker and Boston Mayor Marty Walsh have come out against the measure, opposition to legalization hasn't coalesced into a solid bloc just yet.
In the last decade, Massachusetts voters signed off on decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana and legalizing medical marijuana. But the...
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