The People of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant v. Austin Joseph Lente, Defendant-Appellee — Rice, J…

Summary

The dissent would hold that extracting hash oil from marijuana with butane constitutes legally protected processing rather than prohibited manufacturing. It alternatively concludes that the statutory scheme was unconstitutionally vague as applied because it used overlapping and conflicting definitions of manufacturing and processing, and it would apply lenity in Lente's favor. Justice Gabriel joined the dissent.