This could be the year when marijuana businesses finally get to stop socking away loads of cash as if they were in the show "Breaking Bad" and open up a bank account.
For the past few years, one of the greatest new-level propaganda schemes to come spewing from the mouths of local anti-marijuana squads is that fentanyl is being found in black market pot supplies.
Although the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced a few years back that it would license more cannabis growers that just the University of Mississippi to produce research marijuana, the agency still hasn’t made good on its promise.
The only tried and true way to solve the problem promptly is for Congress to intervene. Then there would be no question on the matter of CBD’s legality.
O’Rourke’s earlier support for pot reform goes back as far as 2009 when he called for “an honest, open national debate on ending the prohibition of narcotics” as a member of the El Paso City Council.