With such vast bipartisan support, is now the time to finally implement a legalization program for the unauthorized population?
Thankfully, President Obama's administration provided cautionary approval allowing Colorado and Washington to implement these new legalization laws.
Meanwhile, marijuana reformers are focused on successfully implementing the marijuana legalization laws that did pass Tuesday night in both Colorado and Washington.
But the man in charge of implementing Canada's legalization regime says there shouldn't be any confusion at all.
To make matters more confusing, the omnibus spending bill the same one that includes the Rohrabacher amendment also includes a provision to block Washington, DC from implementing its own legalization law.
In a news conference Wednesday morning, Bill Blair, parliamentary secretary to Justice Minister Jody WilsaidRaybouldiscussionscussions about pardoning Canadians with pot convictions "can't take place" until legalization is implemented.
Paragon, an online entity, raised approximately $12 million worth of digital assets to develop and implement its business plan to add blockchain technology to the cannabis industry and work toward legalization of cannabis.
While it appears Congress is ready to give states more leeway to implement medical marijuana laws without federal interference, it's not yet ready to give D.C. full autonomy when it comes to legalization.
In 2007, Mason Tvert, who co-directed the 2012 legalization campaign, dressed one of his activists as a chicken and had him follow Hickenlooper around Denver with a sign that said, "Hey, Mayor Chickenlooper, What's So Scary About Marijuana?" Now that Hickenlooper had to implement the new law, Tvert could hardly contain himself.
While Colorado and Washington both passed their legalization laws at the same time, Colorado's was fully implemented at the start of this year, while Washington waited until now to completely implement the new law.
