The issue focused on financial assistance for medical marijuana businesses in Colorado. Lawmakers wanted to prevent medical marijuana businesses from spending tax dollars on advertising and marketing to push their products. Lawmakers also wanted to ban medical marijuana businesses from receiving federal financial assistance to expand or operate.

However, medical marijuana businesses were permitted to spend tax dollars on advertising and marketing in addition to medical marijuana products. Lawmakers saw this as an illegal federal prohibition on marijuana businesses spending tax dollars on advertising and marketing.

After medical marijuana businesses