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Attorney General Jeff Sessions is questioning the efficacy of marijuana regulatory structures in Colorado in a letter to Gov. John Hickenlooper obtained by The Cannabist.
The letter dated July 24 arrived at the Colorado Capitol late Thursday. In it, Sessions cited data from a September 2016 report by the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, a federally funded agency operated out of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy. The report claimed increases in highway patrol seizures, youth use, traffic deaths and emergency department visits since Colorado legalized adult-use sales of cannabis in 2014, according to the letter.
Closing out the letter, Sessions wrote:
“These findings are relevant to the policy debate concerning marijuana legalization. I appreciate your offer to engage in a continuing dialogue on this important issue. To that end, please advise as to how Colorado plans to address the serious findings in the Rocky Mountain HIDTA report,…
