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Westword: Do you have more confidence in recent federal cannabis bills like the Safe Banking Act or MORE Act now that Democrats control the Senate? Christian Sederberg: I m optimistic about everything. The biggest challenge in the last several years has been that even once something gets out of the House, like what we saw with the MORE and Safe Banking Acts, it didn t have any chance of being put on the agenda in the Senate, because of the previous leadership. That s very deflating, and it s a hard road when Senate Majority Leader [Mitch] McConnell wouldn t let legislation coming from the House gain movement in the Senate. Now that you have Democrats controlling the Senate, even though it s a razor-thin margin, they control the chairs of committees. Senator Mike Crapo from Idaho, a Senate committee chair, was not friendly to cannabis, and that hurt the Safe Banking Act, because we couldn t get it moving at all. Then the time ran out that year. ....
Congress s certification of the electors on January 6 and Georgia s important January 5 runoff aside, the election is blessedly behind us. No more campaign ads, no more debates, no more polling, no more pundits trying to explain why the polls were once again off by a significant margin. Coloradans voted Joe Biden over Donald Trump by thirteen and a half points, almost half a million votes in a year in which a record number of voters in this state cast ballots over three million, including a head-shaking 8K who threw away their vote on Kanye West. All politics are local, or so the old saw goes, and that’s ironically more true than ever, even given the globalization of our economy and the over-availability of tailored information on the Internet. So what should Colorado focus on politically in the coming year? ....