Cannabis and Politics: One Expert's View as the Clock Winds Down to the November Elections
With around four months to go ahead of the November elections, observers of America’s marijuana legalization movement are closely watching the legal and political maneuvering underway on both the state and national level.
Voters in about a half-dozen states are expected to decide on cannabis legalization measures this election; and several of those states might join Alaska, Oregon, Washington State and Colorado in allowing the legalization of recreational marijuana use for adults.
But despite the apparent momentum for marijuana legalization the regulatory landscape still remains quite unsettled, notes Sam Kamin, the Vicente Sederberg Professor of Marijuana Law and Policy at the University of Denver.
“It’s pretty easy to forget, especially if you live in Denver, that marijuana is still illegal under federal law,” says Kamin, who has also served on cannabis legalization panels in Colorado and California.
Given that 25 states and the District of Columbia already have legalized marijuana,...
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