June 8 2021,

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COLORADO BILL SHOWS CONCERN WITH HIGH POTENCY PRODUCTS
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Both chambers of Colorado's legislature passed a bill that would tighten the rules governing MED and concentrates. The bill, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support, would impose stricter packaging requirements on concentrates, tighten rules for 18-20 year olds' to obtain MED cards and limit, to 8 grams, the amount of concentrates a person can buy in a day.
Westword, Denver Post

The much amended bill does not include potency limits and other measures favored by some legalization critics. Nonetheless, it is as sweeping a measure of concern about potential dangers associated with high-potency products as has passed the legislature in any state.

That it happened in Colorado, the first state to open a legal REC market, suggests similar backlashes could arise elsewhere.

Related: A new study from the federal government's National Center for Education Studies found the number of students in grades 9-12 who had used marijuana in the past 30 days had barely changed between 2009 and 2019.

WHY DO POT BUBBLES BURST?
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Key Investment Partners

A new report from Key Investment Partners examines why bubbles burst in emerging industries like cannabis, crypto and psychedelics. 

  • The paper asks why investors over-value and then undervalue companies in emerging sectors despite increasing consumer acceptance and interest. 
  • It notes that cannabis capital markets are heavily affected by regulatory milestones and "comprehensibility," even though "there is frequently a disconnect between the capital markets performance of publicly-listed cannabis companies and the actual growth of the cannabis consumer markets."
  • In cannabis, it identifies three and a half boom and bust cycles since 2014, when REC went on sales in Colorado (see above graph.)

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