A lot has changed since Colorado voted to legalize recreational weed four years ago when Governor John Hickenlooper humorously told anxious pot advocates dont break out the Cheetos or goldfish too quickly.
It was a brave new world, and Colorado faced unheard of challenges. Things were a bit, well, chaotic for a while. Not everyone knew what was legal and what was not orwhich government agency was meant to solve the many issues that arose.
Thankfully, Hickenlooper had the presence of mind to appoint a brilliant pot czarAndrew Freedman, who famously said back in 2014, Were making the plane as we fly it.
Jump ahead to the dawn of 2017, and we see that Andrew Freedman has managed to sort out many of the issues that faced Colorados pot industry, including the states bureaucracy, law enforcement community and the public health sector in one of the first of two legal marijuana states in the country.
Now it turns out that Freedman, a Harvard Law School grad, has been tapped as the leading contender for the same job in Massachusetts, which just became the 8thU.S. state (and the first on the Eastern seaboard) to approve recreational pot.
According to the Boston Globe, Freedman is reportedly under consideration to be one of the three regulators who will oversee the recreational industry in Massachusetts, or advise that group as a paid consultant.
Colorados Hickenlooper, who called Freedman probably the most knowledgeable person in the United States in terms of how do you create a regulatory framework for recreational marijuana, said he has advised his pot czar to help out.
There are lots of lessons to be learned, and no one can communicate those lessons more successfully than Andrew can, said Hickenlooper.
Freedman, according to the Boston Globe, keeps a running list of thorny issues on a ...
