Colorado Officials Asking Legislatures to Stop Chaining Cannabis Policies

The ban on marijuana went away in Colorado a couple of years ago when the state decided to finally set up a legal recreational marijuana market in the United States. Nonetheless, it seems that the idea of putting less people in jail for marijuana has made the system go berserk, forcing law enforcement to ask for people to stop changing policies so that they could figure out a plan when dealing with marijuana.

The Denver Post recently released a letter written from leading prosecutors and police officials. The letter showed that these officials are asking that the state lawmakers put a hiatus on adding anything to Colorado’s cannabis laws. Why? Because they just “cannot keep up” with the changing nature of the marijuana industry.

Indicating that there are more than eighty cannabis-related proposals submitted to the Colorado legislature over the last couple of years, the letter asks that state legislatures become a bit less eager about changing Colorado’s marijuana industry at each inch.

“Regulation seems to change on a daily basis, and this process must be slowed down,” the letter says.

In order to try to help the situation, the complaining group made up of Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police, the County Sheriffs of Colorado and the Colorado District Attorneys’ Council continues to ask that there be a two year hiatus on “any changes to current law with regard to marijuana legalization, unless a strong public safety nexus is established.”

Although the marijuana industry has certainly seen a ton of change since voters first agreed the cannabis should be able to be sold as alcohol is, the state should have expected this since they are dealing with a drug that has been heavily fought against for the last couple of decades. Change is needed to get things right, and that’s what they are not realizing.