What safety standards will Colorado implement for recreational pot grown by licensed retailers?

1/7/2014 | Laissez-Faire Capitalist

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Should the state of Colorado issue licenses to (for example) long-established farmers instead of retailers for the growing of medical marijuana?

Will licensed retailers have the same quality, safety standards (per qrowing of recreational marijuana) that will be monitored by the state of Colorado...

As in, will fertilizers used, types used, etc, be kept track of by CO state safety monitors so as to ensure that (for example) no "night soil" is used?

[Laissez-faire capitalist]

Please don’t use broad brushstrokes, implying that to be Laissez faire I must support this or that.

I have been called fake Laissez-Faire because I don’t support gay marrige, but Adam Smith was Laissez-faire and would certainly not have supported Gay marriage, nor pot legalization, either.

[Mister Da]

No broad brush here.

Your posts indicate a need for big government, nanny state solutions to marijuana production, distribution, & consumption - the very opposite of free market capitalism - Laissez-Faire, which also means the “noninterference in the affairs of others”.

[Conscience of a Conservative]

Apples and oranges. What does gay marriage have to do with laisses faire economics? Absolutely nothing.

Marijuana legalization? That’s a different story. A laissez faire economist would have to stretch pretty far to justify prohibiting a market in a particular product because the government thinks the product is bad. And, why do you think Adam Smith would have opposed marijuana legalization? You do realize that marijuana was perfectly legal when Adam Smith was alive (prohibition was a 20th century phenomenon), so the relevant question is whether Smith would have affirmetively supported prohibition.

You can’t credibly call yourself a laissez faire capitalist when you want the government to regulate/restrict/prohibit markets in products that you don’t like.