So you might ask, what’s the appropriate financial penalty for a bank in HSBC’s position? Exactly how much money should one extract from a firm that has been shamelessly profiting from business with criminals for years and years? Remember, we’re… Read More ›
Policy & Politics
Cannabis Patients Alliance founder named 2013 Advocate of the Year
Congratulations to Cannabis Patients Alliance founder Teri Robnett for being named Advocate of the Year at the 2013 Cannabis Business Awards. Watch her motivating call to action in her acceptance speech below.
The Road to Retail: What a long strange trip it’s been
The Daily Doobie, December 1, 2013 On November 6, 2012, Colorado made history when voters passed Amendment 64 allowing for the legal recreational use of cannabis by anyone over 21, and establishing a retail system for the production and sale… Read More ›
Denver Mayor Hancock wants to protect people from being offended by marijuana
Today my husband and I attended Mayor Hancock’s Cabinet in the Community Breakfast in Councilwoman Susan Shepherd’s District 1. There was a sizable crowd; a few familiar politicos like Police Chief Robert White, Rep. Dan Pabon and Councilwoman Debbie Ortega, but… Read More ›
Colorado must carefully define “public consumption” of marijuana – The Denver Post
The Colorado General Assembly couldn’t agree on a definition of “open and public” in regards to marijuana use, so they left the locals to figure it out. Differing opinions about the propriety of visible pot consumption, punishments for the smell… Read More ›
Marijuana Facts Infographic – The Hidden Agenda Behind the War on Drugs
Don’t be fooled – facts don’t lie. Marijuana was not classified as an illegal Schedule 1 Controlled Substance because of it’s harmful effects, but rather because of greedy big business and the Nixon administration and their War On Controlling the… Read More ›
Regulate like alcohol? Tax like tobacco?
I end up sitting through a lot of discussions about taxing marijuana. Most of the reasoning has to do with paying for the high social costs of legalizing marijuana. Therefore, they say, we need a “sin tax” to compensate for… Read More ›
How to ride a dead horse (a lesson in government policy)
The tribal wisdom of the Plains Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that “When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount.” However, in Government, more advanced strategies are often employed,… Read More ›
Special Marijuana Sales Tax is wrong for medical marijuana patients
Dear Honorable City Council Members, I know you that you are discussing a special marijuana sales tax for the City of Denver. In the last A64 working group meeting, the idea of applying it to medical marijuana sales as well… Read More ›
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