mason tvert
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Colorado officials, cannabis industry leaders celebrate 10th Anniversary of Amendment 64
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Colorado cannabis industry leaders and government officials said Tuesday the state set the example for strong cannabis sale regulations while boosting resources for youth education and mental health at an event marking the passage of Amendment 64 in 2012. The amendment paved the way for adult-use marijuana sales and possession here. U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper…
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INSIGHTS: Hickenlooper spiked the ball with his veto pen
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Gov. John Hickenlooper picked a fine time to get jiggy with his veto pen: on his long stroll out the door. Friends and sometime allies who got their bills axed at the finish line are angry at the governor, and some are ascribing it to his political ambitions. Politics is the furnace that heats the…
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Special session on Colorado pot issues called a long shot
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Members of Colorado’s marijuana industry and other advocates on Thursday floated the idea of a special session of the state legislature to overturn Gov. John Hickenlooper’s vetoes of three marijuana bills this week. Hickenlooper nixed legislation that would have allowed samples of cannabis products to be consumed in “tasting rooms” at licensed stores, as well…
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Federal data: Teen pot use is — surprise? — down in Colorado
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Longtime advocates of Colorado’s bold step into legal recreational marijuana back in 2012 are sure to feel vindicated by new federal data indicating teen pot use is down markedly in the state. Indeed, legalization-movement pitch man Mason Tvert was practically on the media’s doorstep with the news this afternoon: The federal government published survey data Monday that shows the…
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Marijuana legalization leader Mason Tvert leaving MPP for consulting firm
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Colorado marijuana legalization leader Mason Tvert is leaving his role with the Marijuana Policy Project on Friday to join the well-known Denver-based cannabis consulting firm VS Strategies. Tvert spent the last five years with MPP following the success of Amendment 64 in 2012, when Colorado voters approved legal retail marijuana with 55 percent of the…
