Colorado has been ground zero for marijuana legalization nationwide, but now that other states are looking to into medicinal marijuana or to outright legalize recreational consumption, many of the nation’s policy makers are getting key facts wrong about the state’s cannabis market.
But, like all things in hyper-partisan Washington D.C., it really depends who you ask: Pro-cannabis lawmakers across the U.S. point to Colorado as the gold, even green, standard for the nation.
Opponents, unsurprisingly, see things quite differently.
“I think it’s terrible and I think it proliferates marijuana all over the Midwest,” said Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King. “It’s causing all kinds of social problems in Colorado and wherever it’s proliferated it’s causing social problems, and it’s part of the defiance of federal law.”
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