Recreational marijuana: Big business or big mistake?
22 Jan 2020
Lake Country, Cooperative Light and Power, Arrowhead
Doug Friednash changed his mind about recreational pot in Colorado. At the time legal marijuana was being considered by the state in 2012, Friednash was Denver’s city attorney and he and most others opposed it.
“Most people expected the sky to fall, including myself,” he recalled in a recent interview with Business North. “I just thought it was going to destroy our economy. We expected teen use to drive up, we were concerned about the public safety implications, we expected all of the horror stories … it was disconcerting to policy makers.”
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