The first version of a bill is going to be passed around in the Colorado Senate soon that introduces certain changes to the cannabis industry that has arisen doubts from those in the marijuana industry. As a result, those working in the industry are writing policies to help their profits. The bill, which seems, by all accounts, to be a sweeping and questionable update, looks to change licensing techniques and simplify pesticide laws. It was drafted by Republican Colorado State Senator Randy Baumgardner, in pair with the Colorado Cannabis Chamber of Commerce and the exchange organization Marijuana Industry Group. The progressions could put control and authorizing Colorado’s cannabis industry in the hands of a couple of possibly prominent, huge business people, and remove the administrative procedure from the state’s larger enforcement division.
“I’ve heard a couple of people argue that we knew that this was going to happen,” said Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper about the proposal. “That the profits coming from the marijuana industry would sooner or later push certain members of the industry to put profits above the safety of the public, and I think that’s a dangerous place for the industry to be in.”
Maybe the most vexing bit of the draft enactment is that it would permit administrators to remediate or “clean” cannabis or pot items corrupted by illicit pesticides; current law requires commercial marijuana found to have hints of an unlawful pesticide be annihilated. The proposition would likewise permit cultivators to utilize an absolved pesticide that is marked safe for human utilization under government law.
“Some of the ones they use we can say with certainty are dangerous. If I were counsel for the marijuana industry, I would argue, you don’t want to take any risk at all,” said Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, who hates pesticide use entirely.
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