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White snuffs bill aimed at granting state control over marijuana growth and distribution

By | 01.06.10 | 9:00 am

State Sen. Al White (R-Hayden) has scrapped plans for a bill this session that would have set up a state medical marijuana growing and distribution monopoly to keep drug cartels out of Colorado. It also would have required prescriptions…

Who exactly voted down that single-payer resolution?

By | 10.20.09 | 12:56 pm

News outlets across Colorado Monday published a four-sentence AP story reporting that “Colorado lawmakers” rejected a resolution urging Congress to pass a single-payer health reform plan. The tantalizing mini-story, designed uniquely perhaps for the Twitter-obsessed, raised more questions than…