Pot Soda, Marijuana Treats for Anxious Dogs. NJ Lawmakers See It All in Colorado

Minutes after a group of New Jersey lawmakers entered the stark industrial Medicine Man marijuana cultivation center, an employee in blue scrubs rushed between them, pushing a plastic cart filled with pots containing a dozen leafy, two-foot-tall cannabis plants.

There was a scramble by the legislators and their aides to clear a path, and then chuckles and "wow"s.

"Oh, my God, It's like a celebrity just came through," Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon (R., Monmouth) quipped - referring to the pot, not the worker.

Led by State Sen. Nick Scutari (D., Union), a municipal prosecutor, four Democratic and two Republican lawmakers spent more than an hour at the sprawling growing center as part of their excellent adventure - or three-day educational experience, as they would describe it - in the Mile-High City. Their mission - to determine if recreational marijuana use should be legalized in New Jersey.

On Tuesday, the lawmakers spent...

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