Story by: Hendrik Sybrandy

DENVER — One new industry to regulate and less than two months to do it. That’s the challenge facing the task force charged with drafting new rules for recreational marijuana in Colorado.

The November passage of Amendment 64 has now made those regulations necessary.

On Thursday, two of the task force’s five subgroups met to sort through some of the complex issues involved.

Deb Palm-Egle, a medical marijuana patient, was among those who attended.

“I want to know why I should ever get a license again and get on a public register,” Palm-Egle said.

“I want to know what the benefits are going be for a medical marijuana patient compared to somebody off the street, and I want to know what they’re going to do.”

DENVER – A man posing as a U.S. Marine is stealing Toys for Tots bins across Colorado.

According to the Denver Post, the man identifies himself as Gunnery Sgt. Mix and simply walks up to donation bins and stakes the entire box.

U.S. Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. David Bull said police were notified Tuesday when he went to pick up a donation box and discovered it was already gone.

The thief is being described as a black man between 40 and 50 years old. As many as six locations from Aurora to Boulder have been hit.

The man wears a Marine uniform when he takes the toys. He does not check-in with the store owners nor show credentials.

The Post reported the thefts are especially worrisome because the Colorado branch of Toys for Tots is still about 45,000 toys short of their goal this year.

DENVER – The task force formed by Gov. John Hickenlooper to figure out how to mesh Colorado laws with the pot-legalizing Amendment 64 met for the first time Monday.

The Amendment 64 Implementation Task Force met at noon at the Department of Revenue’s building. The meeting was open to the public.

The task force – a group of 24 including marijuana activists, lobbyists, state lawmakers and state officials – will create regulations for the state’s new recreational marijuana industry.