Denver to allow pot in bars, restaurants

“You now have more than half the states in the country that have some kind of marijuana legalization”, says Sam Kamin, a criminal justice professor at the University of Denver.

This “yes” on Question 2 will make recreational use of 1 ounce or less legal or one-eighth of an ounce or less of concentrated marijuana legal for people age 21 and older.

This year, while on the campaign trail, he gave medical cannabis his approval. Basically, the laws are a mess.

“The whole point of the sales tax exemption for medical patients was to strike a balance between keeping medical [marijuana] affordable after the new excise tax was in effect.”, Jason Kinney, a spokesperson for the Proposition 64 campaign, said. California’s legislature still has to create a sizable regulatory and licensing infrastructure that would govern marijuana retailers, which is not expected to be completed until the start of 2018. “We don’t have to worry about the line drawn between the gaming and marijuana industries”.

Originally, the ban was supposed to last 45 days, but the council voted in September to extend it until August 14, 2017. This issue was voted on in the November 8 election, however, it took a week for a full majority vote to be tallied. In addition to California, Nevada, Massachusetts, and ME voting for legalized recreational usage, deep red states like North Dakota, Arkansas, and Montana, along with Florida, all approved medical marijuana laws.

The only exception, Mollenkopf said, is that residents can now grow their own pot. Liability insurance. The Colorado Restaurant Association has indicated that “several insurance companies have already indicated to us that they will not insure restaurants and bars that allow marijuana consumption”.

These victories reflect growing popular support for cannabis. The measure requires that the businessowner gets permission from a local neighborhood or business group.

Cannabis council spokesperson Elizabeth Davis said the organization now comprises about 25 businesses and farmers involved with the cannabis industry in Santa Barbara County.

“It has been overwhelming to try to understand the hazards of all these products”, including oils, tinctures, and marijuana-infused edible products, Lee said. At the Board of Supervisors’ Dec. 6 meetings, each of those departments will inform the board on how the new laws will affect them.

California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada joined Colorado, Alaska, Oregon and Washington where adults are free to purchase and use the drug.

Nadelmann and Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, identified Louisiana, Texas, South Carolina, Rhode Island, Maryland, Vermont and MI as states they’d like to see legalize some form of marijuana in the 2018 midterm elections.

In a new segment of Vice News Tonight, correspondent Dexter Thomas met with two marijuana growers in distinctly different situations to get a sense of how this might all shake out.

As a result, tax-free medical marijuana sales will occur in California from now through the end of 2017. California alone is predicted to generate sales that will be larger than all other states with recreational programs combined.

“We know with the data we have now with our Boston public school students this is a really vulnerable population”, she said. For unincorporated areas, it’ll go to the county. Indeed, she predicts a slew of problems when it comes to implementing the ordinance. “Let’s assume we don’t have a complete collapse of government”, he said after Nadelmann’s fiery speech.