Pot regulation - posted by Gma KoKo “The Lauve case was a breakthrough because before that if you were going to court, you were going to jail,” Kappelmann said. “The stigma is so great with marijuana that law enforcement thinks it can run over you. Jason came down and encouraged me to fight.” Lauve, who went on to publish a medical marijuana magazine and now consults for the burgeoning industrial hemp industry, said much work remains to be done in the field of cannabis legalization. There are still district attorneys taking on medical marijuana patients, he said, and the industry struggles under the dual conflict of being legal statewide yet illicit at the federal level. But those challenges, he said, don’t diminish the accomplishments made in the pot legalization movement since he nearly collapsed in a Boulder courtroom five years ago after hearing his not guilty verdict. “This has happened faster, better and bigger than I could have imagined,” Lauve said. thecannabist.co/2014/08/06/jason-lauve-case-boulder-medical-marijuana-trial-blazed-way-pot-regulation-use/17670/
Posted on: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 18:34:32 +0000