I am concerned about truly medically needy individuals who need a lot and might not be served by the market. I want to make sure we provide for the truly medically needy who consume a lot. They probably ingest. You need a lot of material. That is my major concern. And then locals. One big difference between colorado and washington is we do not have arguably a local opt out. Has saidney general locals can opt out come of it that will be litigated. Im in favor of revenue serine sharing. Ideologically opposed so much as they want a cut. Revenueto provide local to make it a statewide market. It is a pleasure to be here. Thank you. [applause] thanks, roger. Electedl to have officials here. We will shift and talk about colorado. I want to remind folks, we will have an open q a. Then we will have questions from the audience is. If you have earning questions, please hang onto them. I will have ugly it speak. Elliot speak. He is the ceo and cofounder of a prominent medical marijuana and adult u
Citing evidence. I am assuming that beer consumption will go down. That kids find it harder to get and use it less. That people have access to medical treatment they did not have access to before. Reporting that good news this is what i am doing. I am running for reelection. People are telling him he, what about this legalization . I say, so far is working out and we are bringing in revenue. Reporting that good news hopes to dampen concern. When i was with jimmy carter, they invited Washington State and colorado folks. They were taking us to task for destroying americas children. I kept saying, this is about regulating a market. Dont you want to regulate the market . They got uncomfortable. They knew it was a rational argument. Another thing is to put the burden on you as industry members. Not to market to children. To message properly. Not to be big marijuana. In Washington State, we have legislated not to allow for big marijuana. We do not have vertical integration. You can only have
My great pleasure to turn things over to roger. Let me stand up so i can see you guys better. It is a pleasure to be back here in denver. Working with brian. The time has flown by. I kind of have to pinch myself. You dont see a lot of tiedye people. Tailed reggae i used to be the oldest person in the audience and i am not anymore. I think what i want to do is give you an update on some of the details of what is going on in Washington State. I becamereform work, notorious in my area. A seat became open in the state legislature. Iran and they hit me hard. They use the keywords. Roger goodman is a lawyer crusading to legalize drugs. My poll numbers shot up afterwards. Cultural find. I was fighting for the truth and had the courage to talk about this as a politician. People were saying, you are saying this . I begged me opponents to hit me on the drug issue. It always backfires on them. If they say i raise taxes, that is different and i am vulnerable. But now, i find myself as the chair of
Groves even up until the last couple years have existed outside of traditional building codes and requirements, and that level of exposure to the regulatory bodies for the Marijuana Industry is whats defining the go forward path. Were really regulatory Management Companies here in colorado. We do produce a product, and we sell it, but we have to manage and provide data to these regulatory bodies to give comfort to the federal government that were accomplishing is it the eight bullet points on their memo. The politics are extremely local because your local hue mispalties and your municipalities and your state regulatory agencies, those are the people answering to the goth saying government saying, hey, were doing our best to prevent child consumption. Youll see also thats where the biggest foot dragging is coming from. Bureaucracies are not going to want to readily assume the burden for, you know, playing interference with the federal government for you. And its a big request to say, he