Colorado seeks permission to grow pot at state universities

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After years of trying to stamp out marijuana use on college campuses, Colorado officials are now asking the federal government to allow its state universities to grow their own pot.

The reason, they say, is that the legalization of the drug here has raised questions about its health effects, questions that can only be answered by studying large amounts and different strains of marijuana.

But researchers face bureaucratic hurdles in scoring pot from the one federally approved marijuana farm, a 12-acre facility at the University of Mississippi's National Center for Natural Products Research.

In a letter to federal regulators last month, Colorado Deputy Atty. Gen. David Blake said research into the "medicinal value or detriment of marijuana, particularly those strains not grown and made available by the federal government, have become important to the national debate over marijuana legalization."

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1. This seems absurd.

I know, the State University is just being a Good Neighbor with the Federal agencies and all. 1000 shades of gray.

My gut instinct, however, is that this is a State University, and if marijuana is legal in Colorado as the media frequently asserts, then they should just obtain their stock on the market, seeds or whatever strain, and grow it themselves. Greenhouse. Growroom. Big decision.

Then, the Good Neighbor policy is to advise the Federal Government of your research efforts, wherever that leads you. I.E. Tell them, don't Ask them.