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Posted: 4/25/2013 1:23:30 PM EST
FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2012 file photo, Brandon Coats' mother Donna brushes Brandon's hair at his home in Denver. Coats, a quadriplegic medicalmarijuana patient, was fired from his job in 2010 as a telephone operator at Dish Network after testing positive for marijuana. The Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday, April 25, 2013, upheld the firing of Coats, saying that there is no employment protection for people who use marijuana. In a split decision issued on Thursday, the court said marijuana use is still barred by the federal government, even though state-licensed marijuana use has been approved by voters and is considered lawful. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)
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Posted: 4/25/2013 1:23:25 PM EST
FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2012 file photo, Brandon Coats works on his computer at his home in Denver. Coats, a quadriplegic medical marijuana patient, was fired from his job in 2010 as a telephone operator at Dish Network after testing positive for marijuana. The Colorado Court of Appeals on Thursday, April 25, 2013, upheld the firing of Coats, saying that there is no employment protection for people who use marijuana. In a split decision issued on Thursday, the court said marijuana use is still barred by the federal government, even though state-licensed marijuana use has been approved by voters and is considered lawful. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)
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Posted: 4/20/2013 8:33:58 PM EST
Carly, center, smokes marijuana with the help of Hunter, right, at the Denver 4/20 pro-marijuana rally at Civic Center Park in Denver on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Authorities generally look the other way at public pot smoking here on April 20. Police said this week they're focused on crowd security in light of attacks that killed three at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 4/20/2013 8:33:58 PM EST
Marijuana smokers pass a bong at the Denver 4/20 pro-marijuana rally at Civic Center Park in Denver on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Authorities generally look the other way at public pot smoking here on April 20. Police said this week they're focused on crowd security in light of attacks that killed three at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 4/20/2013 8:33:58 PM EST
Tattoo artist Robert Duran touches up performer Ashley Lucero with a marijuana-themed body paint design, as Vanessa Pacheco looks on at right, at the Denver 4/20 pro-marijuana rally at Civic Center Park in Denver on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Even before the passage in November 2012 of Colorado Amendment 64 promised the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, April 20th has for years been a celebration of marijuana counterculture, with the 2013 Denver rally expected to draw larger crowds than previous years. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 4/20/2013 8:33:58 PM EST
Youths smoke marijuana at the Denver 4/20 pro-marijuana rally at Civic Center Park in Denver, Saturday, April 20, 2013. Even before the passage in November 2012 of Colorado Amendment 64, which promised the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, April 20th has for years been a celebration of marijuana counterculture, and the 2013 rally was expected to draw larger crowds than previous years. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 4/20/2013 8:33:58 PM EST
Youths smoke marijuana at the Denver 4/20 pro-marijuana rally at Civic Center Park in Denver, Saturday, April 20, 2013. Even before the passage in November 2012 of Colorado Amendment 64 that promised the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, April 20th has for years been a celebration of marijuana counterculture, and the 2013 rally was expected to draw larger crowds than previous years. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 4/20/2013 8:33:58 PM EST
Members of a crowd numbering tens of thousands smoke marijuana and listen to live music, at the Denver 420 pro-marijuana rally at Civic Center Park in Denver on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Even before the passage in November 2012 of Colorado Amendment 64 promised the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, April 20th has for years been a celebration of marijuana counterculture, and the 2013 Denver rally draw larger crowds than previous years. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 4/20/2013 8:33:58 PM EST
Members of a crowd numbering tens of thousands smoke marijuana simultaneously at 4:20 PM, at the Denver 420 pro-marijuana rally at Civic Center Park in Denver on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Even before the passage in November 2012 of Colorado Amendment 64 promised the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, April 20th has for years been a celebration of marijuana counterculture, and the 2013 rally draw larger crowds than previous years. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 4/20/2013 8:33:58 PM EST
Members of a crowd numbering tens of thousands smoke marijuana and listen to live music, at the Denver 420 pro-marijuana rally at Civic Center Park in Denver on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Even before the passage in November 2012 of Colorado Amendment 64 promised the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, April 20th has for years been a celebration of marijuana counterculture, and the 2013 Denver rally draw larger crowds than previous years. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 4/20/2013 8:33:58 PM EST
Members of a crowd numbering tens of thousands smoke marijuana and listen to live music, at the Denver 420 pro-marijuana rally at Civic Center Park in Denver on Saturday, April 20, 2013. Even before the passage in November 2012 of Colorado Amendment 64 promised the legalization of marijuana for recreational use, April 20th has for years been a celebration of marijuana counterculture, and the 2013 Denver rally draw larger crowds than previous years. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
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Posted: 4/19/2013 4:03:27 PM EST
Jeff Call, owner of the Stonegate Pizza and Rum Bar in Tacoma, Wash., poses for a photo Thursday, April 18, 2013 with a letter he received from the city of Tacoma revoking Call’s business license because he allows customers to use vaporized marijuana upstairs in a private club area of his bar. Call filed an appeal Thursday and will continue operating his business. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Posted: 4/19/2013 4:03:27 PM EST
Jeff Call, owner of the Stonegate Pizza and Rum Bar in Tacoma, Wash., poses for a photo Thursday, April 18, 2013 with a letter he received from the city of Tacoma revoking Call’s business license because he allows customers to use vaporized marijuana upstairs in a private club area of his bar. Call filed an appeal Thursday and will continue operating his business. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 3:33:23 PM EST
FILE - This file photo provided by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department shows Nevada state Assembly member Steven Brooks after an arrest on charges that he physically attacked a family member and grabbed for a police officer's weapon. The former Nevada lawmaker has been indicted on a felony charge alleging that he shouldn't have had a firearm with him on a night that he was arrested in North Las Vegas in January because he is a marijuana user.(AP Photo/Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, File)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 6:20:59 AM EST
In this photo taken Thursday, April 4, 2013, certification cards for different strains of marijuana are displayed at a growing facility in Seattle. Spreadsheets, statistics and bean-counting are Mike Steenhout's, comptroller of Washington’s Liquor Control Board, regular realm of expertise. Now, he’s a weed guy. Washington’s vote last fall to legalize marijuana for adults over 21 and set up a system of state-licensed pot growers, processors and retail stores left dozens of Liquor Control Board employees in the position of having to research and help regulate a substance that many knew little to nothing about. While the state has hired a Massachusetts firm to serve as its official marijuana consultant, the Liquor Control Board is also doing its own work--a cannabis crash-course. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 6:20:59 AM EST
In this photo taken Thursday, April 4, 2013, Mike Steenhout, comptroller of Washington's Liquor Control Board, smiles during a presentation about marijuana plant extracts at a medical marijuana clinic in Seattle. Spreadsheets, statistics and bean-counting are Steenhout's regular realm of expertise. Now, he’s a weed guy. Washington’s vote last fall to legalize marijuana for adults over 21 and set up a system of state-licensed pot growers, processors and retail stores left dozens of Liquor Control Board employees in the position of having to research and help regulate a substance that many knew little to nothing about. While the state has hired a Massachusetts firm to serve as its official marijuana consultant, the Liquor Control Board is also doing its own work--a cannabis crash-course. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 6:20:59 AM EST
In this photo taken Thursday, April 4, 2013, Cale Burkhart waits behind a table holding marijuana products for his turn to make a presentation about cannabis syrup at a medical marijuana facility in Seattle. From right are marijuana trim and "B" grade buds, manicured buds, marijuana-infused glycerine and vegetable glycerine, used to dilute the infusion to the desired ratio for a tincture. Spreadsheets, statistics and bean-counting are Mike Steenhout's, comptroller of Washington’s Liquor Control Board, regular realm of expertise. Now, he’s a weed guy. Washington’s vote last fall to legalize marijuana for adults over 21 and set up a system of state-licensed pot growers, processors and retail stores left dozens of Liquor Control Board employees in the position of having to research and help regulate a substance that many knew little to nothing about. While the state has hired a Massachusetts firm to serve as its official marijuana consultant, the Liquor Control Board is also doing its own work--a cannabis crash-course. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 6:20:59 AM EST
In this photo taken Thursday, April 4, 2013, Mike Steenhout, comptroller of Washington's Liquor Control Board, listens during a presentation about botanical extraction equipment at Eden Labs, in Seattle. Spreadsheets, statistics and bean-counting are Steenhout's regular realm of expertise. Now, he’s a weed guy. Washington’s vote last fall to legalize marijuana for adults over 21 and set up a system of state-licensed pot growers, processors and retail stores left dozens of Liquor Control Board employees in the position of having to research and help regulate a substance that many knew little to nothing about. While the state has hired a Massachusetts firm to serve as its official marijuana consultant, the Liquor Control Board is also doing its own work--a cannabis crash-course. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 6:20:59 AM EST
In this photo taken Thursday, April 4, 2013, Mike Steenhout, comptroller of Washington's Liquor Control Board, sniffs butane hash oil, a product extracted from marijuana plants, with Jim Andersen at a marijuana growing facility in Seattle. Spreadsheets, statistics and bean-counting are Steenhout's regular realm of expertise. Now, he’s a weed guy. Washington’s vote last fall to legalize marijuana for adults over 21 and set up a system of state-licensed pot growers, processors and retail stores left dozens of Liquor Control Board employees in the position of having to research and help regulate a substance that many knew little to nothing about. While the state has hired a Massachusetts firm to serve as its official marijuana consultant, the Liquor Control Board is also doing its own work--a cannabis crash-course. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Posted: 4/18/2013 6:20:59 AM EST
In this photo taken Thursday, April 4, 2013, one- to two-week-old marijuana starts sit under lights at a growing facility in Seattle. Spreadsheets, statistics and bean-counting are Mike Steenhout's, comptroller of Washington’s Liquor Control Board, regular realm of expertise. Now, he’s a weed guy. Washington’s vote last fall to legalize marijuana for adults over 21 and set up a system of state-licensed pot growers, processors and retail stores left dozens of Liquor Control Board employees in the position of having to research and help regulate a substance that many knew little to nothing about. While the state has hired a Massachusetts firm to serve as its official marijuana consultant, the Liquor Control Board is also doing its own work--a cannabis crash-course. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
