Colorado Has Backed Off Plans For Marijuana Clubs

DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers have backed off plans to regulate marijuana clubs, saying the state would invite a federal crackdown by approving Amsterdam-style pot clubs.The state House voted Thursday to amend a bill that would have set rules for how private pot clubs could work.
It was a dramatic reversal. Bring-your-own pot clubs had bipartisan support in the Legislature, and the measure had already cleared the GOP Senate.
But lawmakers bowed to Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper, who