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Associated Press: Colorado marijuana groups look to legalize pot in 2012 |
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Written by Ivan Moreno
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Thursday, 04 November 2010 |
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Colorado marijuana activists, undaunted by California's failure to
legalize the drug, said Wednesday they are launching two separate
campaigns to legalize pot for adults in 2012.
The pot groups
announced their intentions even as voters in more than two dozen
Colorado municipalities decided Tuesday to ban medical marijuana
centers. But advocates who want to legalize the drug see hope in
Colorado, one of 14 states where medical marijuana is legal, and where
Denver voters approved an ordinance making pot possession the "lowest
law enforcement priority."
"Colorado is ready," said Mason Tvert,
the head of Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation, which was
behind the Denver ordinance a few years ago. Tvert's SAFER and Sensible
Colorado said Wednesday they would work together to let voters decide
whether to make marijuana legal for adults 21 years and older and
regulate the drug like alcohol. Read the entire story at http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20101103/NEWS/101109946/1077&ParentProfile=1058
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