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America is going to pot, but Wyoming legislators want no part of the green rush or its ever-expanding consumption methods and product lines.
According to a report from the Wyoming Tribune Eagle, lawmakers in the state’s Joint Judiciary Committee voted to advance two cannabis bills to the Cowboy State’s 2018 budget session, both with the explicit goal of increasing penalties for non-plant forms of marijuana — products that legislators say have become more common since neighboring Colorado legalized weed for recreational use in 2014.
As Wyoming’s current laws stand, possessing more than three ounces of marijuana is grounds for a felony charge, but no specific regulation speaks to cannabis content in infused products like edibles, oils, and extracts.
To tighten those restrictions and reaffirm Wyoming’s anti-cannabis stance, one of the two bills pushed forward last Thursday would restructure the state’s three-ounce limit to include edibles, infused drinks, topicals, and other products — even if their THC content is far less than that of a bag of regular weed.
For example, if the first bill were to pass,…
