Does Scott Pruitt Hate Pot Smokers? Maybe Not
07/28/17 • 11 min
The EPA recently disappointed many pot growers in states where the drug has been legalized. It reversed course from the Obama administration and refused to approve any pesticides for use on marijuana plants. Why did Pruitt's EPA change the administration's stance on this issue? Was it because he thinks smoking weed is morally wrong? Not necessarily, says Bloomberg BNA's Tiffany Stecker. She tells us that Pruitt may have also been listening to the agency's lawyers.
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The EPA recently disappointed many pot growers in states where the drug has been legalized. It reversed course from the Obama administration and refused to approve any pesticides for use on marijuana plants. Why did Pruitt's EPA change the administration's stance on this issue? Was it because he thinks smoking weed is morally wrong? Not necessarily, says Bloomberg BNA's Tiffany Stecker. She tells us that Pruitt may have also been listening to the agency's lawyers.
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Today on parts per billion marijuana. The pot industry is growing really fast in states where it's been legalized, but an EPA decision on pesticides could bring all of that to a screeching halt. Hello and welcome once again into parts per billion the Environmental Policy podcast from Bloomberg DNA. I'm your host, David Schultz. So we all know pot is legal in a few states Washington and Oregon, Colorado, and Alaska, and in the very near future, it
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