Mass. lawmakers take fact-finding pot-shop tour in Denver

DENVER – A group of Massachusetts lawmakers returned Thursday from what state Sen. Jason Lewis (D-Winchester) described as a marijuana "fact-finding" trip to Colorado, where voters legalized pot in 2012. The three-day visit came after a proposal to make the drug legal in Massachusetts moved closer to the November ballot, putting the Legislature on the spot. On Wednesday, backers of legalization urged lawmakers in the State House to pass a similar legislative measure, as a way to keep control of

DENVER – A group of Massachusetts lawmakers returned Thursday from what state Sen. Jason Lewis (D-Winchester) described as a marijuana "fact-finding" trip to Colorado, where voters legalized pot in 2012. The three-day visit came after a proposal to make the drug legal in Massachusetts moved closer to the November ballot, putting the Legislature on the spot. On Wednesday, backers of legalization urged lawmakers in the State House to pass a similar legislative measure, as a way to keep control of…