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Denver Post: Boulder Democrat Polis plans to push decriminalizing marijuana at federal level |
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Written by Allison Sherry
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Monday, 03 January 2011 |
If
Colorado was allowed to treat marijuana like alcohol — or any other
medicine, for that matter — pot dispensaries could freely set up
business bank accounts without fear of federal prosecution and marijuana
could, like corn and wheat, be grown openly in national forests.
This is according to U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, a Boulder Democrat, who
said he plans to push a law in the new Congress that would decriminalize
marijuana at the federal level so that states with medicinal laws on
the books, like Colorado, could treat it as they wish... ...Plans are underway to get a pot legalization ballot measure on Colorado's 2012 ballot (a similar measure failed in 2006). "Every state should be able to take this issue on its own," said
Mason Tvert, executive director of SAFER Alternative for Enjoyable
Recreation, which is working on fundraising for the ballot measure. Read the entire story at: http://www.denverpost.com/news/marijuana/ci_16990651#ixzz19zyQh1US
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