Senator John Hickenlooper of Colorado has introduced a bill that would lay the foundation for regulations to govern the eventual legalization of cannabis at the federal level.
The bill, ‘the Preparing Regulators Effectively for a Post-Prohibition Adult Use Regulated Environment (PREPARE) Act’, directs the U.S. attorney general to develop a regulatory framework to be in place for the federal legalization of cannabis by Congress.
Sen. Hickenlooper was the governor of Colorado when voters legalized recreational marijuana with the passage of Amendment 64 back in 2012. he convened the Amendment 64 Task Force to provide recommendations for the establishment of regulations that set the stage for Colorado’s successful legal cannabis industry a month later. And now, Last month, Hickenlooper revealed that he planned to introduce the bipartisan PREPARE Act to create a similar commission at the federal level.
“A decade after Colorado pioneered marijuana legalization, Americans overwhelmingly support the same at the federal level,” Hickenlooper said in a statement from the senator’s office. “This bipartisan, bicameral framework, based on Colorado’s Amendment 64 Task Force, will replicate our success nationally.”
Sourced From: High Times
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