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Colorado Scraps Medical Marijuana Rules

A marijuana fight is headed back to the Colorado statehouse.

A marijuana fight is headed back to the Colorado statehouse.

 

A panel of state senators voted Tuesday to scrap most of the administration's plans to change Colorado's rules regulating how medical marijuana is grown and sold.

 

The vote came in a hearing called to renew the state's 2010 pot regulations, which expire this year if lawmakers don't act.

 

Gov. John Hickenlooper's regulators wanted 15 changes, including a crackdown on caregivers, who are the people authorized to grow pot on behalf of people on the medical marijuana registry.

 

But senators from both parties voted 5-0 not to take that approach. Instead, lawmakers will debate every aspect of the medical marijuana code, opening the door for big changes to how the drug is grown and sold.

Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.
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