Apr 23, 2020
On November 6, 2012 Colorado Amendment 64 passed and the Constitution of the state of Colorado was subsequently amended to outline a statewide drug policy for cannabis.
Over the past two decades, more than thirty states have legalized though the drug remains classified as a Schedule 1 drug under federal law.
Join us for this episode of The Marketplace of Ideas taken from the Law & Economics Center’s October 2019 Symposium on the Law & Economics of Marijuana Legalization, and listen in as panelists discuss the issues and challenges arising within an industry that is decriminalized within a state, but not at the federal level.
Panelists include:
James Henning, Commander, Denver Police Department; Sam Kamin, Vicente Sederberg Professor of Marijuana Law and Policy, University of Denver Sturm College of Law; Theshia Naidoo, Legal Director of Criminal Justice, Drug Policy Alliance and The Honorable Paula A. Nakayama, Associate Justice, Hawai'i Supreme Court