The author, who owns a bar and helped write Colorado's Cannabis Laws, criticizes Senate Bill 26-164, which would allow restaurants, bars, and taverns to serve "hemp-derived" high-THC beverages for on-site consumption alongside alcohol, in contradiction to the regulated cannabis system established by Amendment 64. The bill would allow these drinks, which are made with up to 10 milligrams of THC per serving, to be sold alongside alcohol. The author argues that there is no way for bars to safely sell these “hemp” drinks alongside alcohol due to Colorado’s current laws that prohibit serving visibly intoxicated people. The writer argues that existing bar rules prevent such a thing, stating that while Colorado's dram shop laws prohibit serving a visibly intoxicated person, these laws change the onset of this type of intoxication, these rules apply differently to those of the THC beverages.