Marijuana legalization: What Canada can learn from the Colorado experience
When you ask Colorado's first-ever director of marijuana co-ordination what's changed in the two years since the state legalized pot, he'll tell you that things look "roughly the same."
In other words, the streets are not filled with the scent of reefer and no government officials are swimming through mountains of money like Scrooge McDuck.
Andrew Freedman is often referred to in Colorado as the 'marijuana czar' because of his role as the state's director of marijuana coordination. (Linkedin)
In 2015, Andrew Freedman, who is often referred to as the state's marijuana czar, said taxes on medical and recreational marijuana added about $130-million to Colorado's $27-billion budget.
"People think we're going to be able to construct a whole bunch of new schools. And we're like 'Well, no, we're going to put roofs on ten schools,'" Freedman said in an interview Friday as part of the Calgary Eyeopener's week-long series looking at the...
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