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Colorado officials have come forward to reveal more details over the secret marijuana enforcement meetings held over the past few days between local, state and federal officials.
Earlier this week, KKTV 11 News and the Colorado Springs Gazette reported that the Department of Justice, the DEA and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) were meeting with Colorado officials to discuss “sensitive investigative information” pertaining marijuana.
Although Colorado Springs Mayor John Suthers, who attended one of the meetings, eventually said that “most of the discussion centered around the huge black market that exists for marijuana in Colorado,” there was some speculation that these little governmental pow-wows actually centered on the highly publicized, yet still unconfirmed, federal pot crackdown that the Justice Department has teased since Trump, and subsequently Jeff Sessions, took office earlier this year.
However, an interview with Mark Bolton, Governor Hickenlooper’s chief marijuana adviser, published yesterday by The Cannabist seems to suggest that the meetings had less to do with the pending demise of the cannabis trade and more…
