CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Wyoming lawmakers are weighing how to regulate marijuana brownies and similarly spiked foods and beverages that increasingly are coming in from neighboring Colorado and other places where the drug is legal.
A bill to make it a felony to possess more than 3 ounces of marijuana edibles died in the Wyoming legislative session that ended this month. Lawmakers deadlocked on how to measure the concentration and potency of marijuana and its active ingredient, THC, when it's mixed with the other edible ingredients.
The Joint Judiciary Committee is set to consider the issue again before next year.
"Frankly, it's time the state take a comprehensive look at its marijuana laws in general, not just with edibles," said Rep. Charles Pelkey, a committee member and Democrat from Laramie, home to the University of Wyoming.
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