I am concerned about truly medically needy individuals who need a lot and might not be served by the market. I want to make sure we provide for the truly medically needy who consume a lot. They probably ingest. You need a lot of material. That is my major concern. And then locals. One big difference between colorado and washington is we do not have arguably a local opt out. Has saidney general locals can opt out come of it that will be litigated. Im in favor of revenue serine sharing. Ideologically opposed so much as they want a cut. Revenueto provide local to make it a statewide market. It is a pleasure to be here. Thank you. [applause] thanks, roger. Electedl to have officials here. We will shift and talk about colorado. I want to remind folks, we will have an open q a. Then we will have questions from the audience is. If you have earning questions, please hang onto them. I will have ugly it speak. Elliot speak. He is the ceo and cofounder of a prominent medical marijuana and adult u
My great pleasure to turn things over to roger. Let me stand up so i can see you guys better. It is a pleasure to be back here in denver. Working with brian. The time has flown by. I kind of have to pinch myself. You dont see a lot of tiedye people. Tailed reggae i used to be the oldest person in the audience and i am not anymore. I think what i want to do is give you an update on some of the details of what is going on in Washington State. I becamereform work, notorious in my area. A seat became open in the state legislature. Iran and they hit me hard. They use the keywords. Roger goodman is a lawyer crusading to legalize drugs. My poll numbers shot up afterwards. Cultural find. I was fighting for the truth and had the courage to talk about this as a politician. People were saying, you are saying this . I begged me opponents to hit me on the drug issue. It always backfires on them. If they say i raise taxes, that is different and i am vulnerable. But now, i find myself as the chair of
Allow us to work with them, too. What we have been doing that is , we important, i believe have approved the convention 169. Projects, political or economical that affect the community directly should go to the community. And agenday program and a council of indigenous people. I have a ministry of culture. I do not send it to parliament until we go through the right process. Many other situations, they should be part of the consulting way of giving their opinion on what and how they feel and what they would like in some issues or institutions that represent them. And veryry active agenda in dealing with the shortcomings weve had and challenges weve had. I know we will also come in that sense, be able to diminish conflict we have in some parts of the country. With a lot of social protection because, in many of the indigenous areas, we have higher rates of poverty or some diseases. Or pay payment more attention to their values and culture. Thank you very much. Endafraid weve come to the
Groves even up until the last couple years have existed outside of traditional building codes and requirements, and that level of exposure to the regulatory bodies for the Marijuana Industry is whats defining the go forward path. Were really regulatory Management Companies here in colorado. We do produce a product, and we sell it, but we have to manage and provide data to these regulatory bodies to give comfort to the federal government that were accomplishing is it the eight bullet points on their memo. The politics are extremely local because your local hue mispalties and your municipalities and your state regulatory agencies, those are the people answering to the goth saying government saying, hey, were doing our best to prevent child consumption. Youll see also thats where the biggest foot dragging is coming from. Bureaucracies are not going to want to readily assume the burden for, you know, playing interference with the federal government for you. And its a big request to say, he