Got the Munchies? Pot Brownies and Candy Central to Massachusetts Marijuana Legalization Debate
The butter shortbread and oatmeal raisin cookies from Better Baked in Denver look like cookies in any supermarket. But take a few bites and you might get high. The cookies are infused with marijuana.
Beginning in October, the wholesale distributor of marijuana edibles will need to mark the bottom of the cookies, which they will do using a powdered sugar-like substance, with a diamond and the notation "THC," indicating that they contain the active ingredient in marijuana.
That is just one of the latest regulatory changes Colorado is making as its recreational marijuana industry grows and the market for edible products like pot brownies and candy has taken off.
"There are 69 pages of regulations we are governed under, everything that you can think of," said Elyse Gordon, co-owner of Better Baked.
Marijuana edibles have emerged as a flash point in the debate over whether to legalize marijuana for recreational...
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