Inside the Lightshade dispensary on 6th Avenue in Denver. April 1, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)
An effort at the Colorado statehouse to curb young people’s access to highly potent marijuana is expected to get a final vote later this week. The measure has overwhelming support from lawmakers in both parties, but took months of negotiations between the marijuana industry and advocates for stricter marijuana laws.
The bill is not as sweeping as some advocates for tougher laws around marijuana concentrates would have liked. While the measure would create more stringent laws around teenage medical marijuana use, it does not set potency caps on the strength of marijuana concentrates or make any changes to the recreational use of marijuana.
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The 2021 session brought new challenges, as seen in a measure drafted by Representative Yadira Caraveo, a Democrat from Adams County. A leaked version of her Safe & Healthy Marijuana Use proposal called for a ban on any form of legal marijuana, recreational or medical, testing over 15 percent THC, as well as a number of restrictions to the state s medical marijuana program, including a requirement that medical marijuana patients only be allowed to purchase a pre-designated dosage and allotment of certain products decided by a physician, similar to a drug prescription.
That proposal was never introduced. But along with House Speaker Alec Garnett, Caraveo is among the sponsors of House Bill 21-1317, Regulating Marijuana Concentrates, which is moving along in the Colorado Legislature. According to its summary: The bill requires the Colorado School of Public Health to do a systematic review of the scientific research related to the physical and mental health effects of high-p
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