At least two Colorado counties are planning to opt out of some of the provisions allowed for in Amendment 64 that legalized the use of small amounts of recreational marijuana.
The voter approved amendment is just one of the topics that KUNC’s state capitol reporter Bente Birkeland recently asked Governor John Hickenlooper to comment on.
%22No%20one%20is%20going%20to%20make%20massive%20investments%20in%20cultivation%20or%20distribution%20of%20this%20newly%20legal%20marijuana%20without%20seeing%20what%20the%20Federal%20Government%20is%20going%20to%20do.%20Right%20now%20the%20law%20of%20the%20land%20passed%20by%20both%20houses%20of%20Congress%20and%20signed%20by%20the%20President%20of%20the%20United%20States%20is%20that%20marijuana%20is%20an%20illegal%20controlled%20substance.%22%20-%20Governor%20John%20Hickenlooper