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Industry experts and local residents weighed in on potential marijuana regulations in the city of Grand Junction at a listening session last week. The city is holding seven listening sessions to hear from the public on what types of regulations they want to see prior to a June 7 City Council workshop. Grand Junction Senior Planner Lance Gloss opened the meeting with an overview of the work already done and the timeline the city is looking at as it moves forward. “The idea is that over the course of the next several months regulation would be drafted based on research and based on public ...

Michael Pramenko, M.D. — a frequent contributor to the Sentinel’s editorial page and an evangelist for fighting high health-care costs by incentivizing healthy behavior — has an idea worth exploring. With voters clearing the way for the Grand Junction City Council to create a regulatory framework for the retail marijuana trade to operate in the city limits, he’s asking why not dream big? Instead of capturing just a percentage of total sales via taxes, the right kind of pot shop could give away all profits in a way that will improve society. Pramenko was against authorizing...