Daily News Article - December 3, 2014
1. What information have Colorado’s marijuana regulators refused to provide to reporters, lawmakers, and the public?
2. a) What are Colorado’s marijuana regulators required by Colorado law to test for but haven’t yet done so?
b) Why haven’t regulators yet complied with the law?
3. What aspect of the marijuana being sold in Colorado don’t regulators monitor, instead leaving it up to buyers to determine?
4. What contrasting information on THC levels does the reporter give in this article (opinion of head of a marijuana testing lab vs. the opinion of marijuana store workers)? (see para. 6-7, 21-22)
5. See paragraphs 13-14:
a) What is the Colorado marijuana regulator’s office mainly using the plant tracking system to do?
b) What did investigators discover when making targeted visits to marijuana stores?
c) For what reasons might store owners be doing this?
6. How does the state of Washington’s law allowing the sale/use of recreational marijuana differ from that in Colorado?
7. What is your overall reaction to the investigation into Colorado’s marijuana regulators? (Are regulators necessary? Are they effective? Is this a poorly written law and they’re doing the best they can?…) Explain your answer.