Colorado Cops Help Convince California City to Ban Medical Marijuana

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Images from the Police Foundation report entitled "Colorado Legalizatino of Marijuana and teh Impact on Public Safety: A Practical Guide for Law Enforcement." Additional images and more below.

Is Colorado's experiment with marijuana legalization a success story or an abject failure? Depends on who you ask.

Studies from organizations such as the Brookings Institution have praised the state's roll-out of cannabis-related rules and regulations.

But law-enforcement groups such as the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area continue to portray the situation in sky-is-falling terms.

During a recent trip to Colorado to assess whether or not Indio should allow medical marijuana cultivation, representatives from the City of Indio, California, appear to have listened mainly to folks that fall into this last category — which may explain why the Indio city council recently voted to draft an ordinance banning MMJ.

Participants in the visit, which...

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