In March, Gov. John Hickenlooper signed Senate Bill 15, which reforms how pesticides can be used on marijuana.
A grow light shines through the leaves of a cannabis plant at Northern Lights grow facility in Denver. (Seth McConnell, The Denver Post)
The original rules simply included a list of which pesticides could be legally used to grow marijuana. This new legislation instead provides a list of criteria that all pesticides must pass in order to be legally used to grow marijuana. The interesting thing about this legislation is not exactly what it entails, but how quickly it traveled through the legal process to become law. It was introduced in the Colorado Senate on Jan. 13 and by March 9 the bill was signed and made law. This shows that when legislation is very bipartisan, it can quickly travel through the bill process.
Colorado is lucky that we have both parties support to be a model state on how the legalization of marijuana should be done.
Charles Bryce DeHaven, Littleton
This letter was published in the April 27 edition.
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