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Colorado-led coalition formed to push back at feds on pot
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If Attorney General Jeff Sessions opened up the Washington Times Wednesday he was bound to see a message from several Colorado leaders, and elected officials from across the country, on cannabis policy. A new coalition, headed by Pueblo County Commissioner and former state legislator Sal Pace, took out a full page ad in the Washington…
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Colorado delegation considers options for opposing federal marijuana policy
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WASHINGTON – Some members of Colorado’s delegation to Congress decided Tuesday to back a bill that could prevent federal prosecutors from interfering with state laws legalizing marijuana. They met to discuss options after the Justice Department announced it would prosecute anyone who violates the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, regardless of whether it contradicts state laws.…
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‘Don’t freak out’ about federal marijuana crackdown, say Colorado AG and governor
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Attorney General Cynthia Coffman had no advance warning from the Department of Justice that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was planning to reverse nine years of marijuana policy issued by the Obama administration. That said, Coffman, a Republican, advised both Colorado consumers of marijuana and the dispensaries that sell it to stay calm while the…
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Colorado’s Cory Gardner seeks some tax equity for pot purveyors
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A lot of the workaday tax credits and deductions that businesses routinely use to trim Uncle Sam’s take are still off-limits to Colorado’s legal marijuana enterprises. That would change under legislation Colorado Republican U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner signed onto this week as a co-sponsor. As noted in a press release from Gardner’s office, the legislation,…
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Insights: How Republicans went to pot in Colorado
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If U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions thinks he can score political points for Republicans by coming after Colorado’s pot, then a whole Phish concert would want what he must be smoking. State Sen. Tim Neville doesn’t like pot, not to smoke it or eat it. He didn’t vote to legalize in 2012, but like a…
