Regulatory Change Quotes
Regulators, like any other group of people, with the exception of an inventor or innovator and his/her team, are ALWAYS way behind the innovators. However, typically the regulators are not even up on innovations after their creation for several years. They generally are not appointed or hired for their technical skills, and Congress rarely provides enough of a budget to hire enough staff to give them the time to keep up with the field. For a professor in a University, this alone requires about half of his time. No agency can allocate that kind of time. Worse, is the ultimate regulators are the legislators—Congress at the Federal level. They often do not invest enough time to read the regulatory legislation upon which they vote, much less keep up with the fields they regulate.
One of the major problems with marijuana was that since it was illegal, the supply was not regulate. One result was that there was no labeling and the consumer had no idea of the strength of the active ingredient (THC) and could not monitor his/her dosage. At the time of this quotation, the state of Colorado had just legalized the selling of marijuana but required that all marijuana sold carry labels which inform the consumer just how much THC he/she would be taking.
Federal rulemaking is a complicated arcane process as a result of Congress making it harder for Federal agencies to make rules. Although Congress could legislate any rules, many members prefer not to go on ecord as supporting some rules. Others watch what the public reaction is and if good, they support it and take credit and if bad, they complain of the "overreach of unelected bureaucrats". However, they do not want rulemaking to be fast or efficient; they want the time to decide where they stand. IN 2017 The incomming Trump Administration wanted to repeal many of the Federal Rules that had been made in the previous Obama Administration. However Trump and his team was not very experienced politically and ran against the politicians. They were surprised that it was as hard to repeal Federal Rules as it was to make them in the first place as this quotation explained
