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  Colorado Pot Clubs Celebrate Legal Marijuana in 2013

  January 2, 2013 at 9:53 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  It was marijuana instead of champagne this year for some New Year’s Eve revelers in Colorado, who lit up in private smoking clubs allowed for the first time under the state’s new pot laws. In Denver, people filled out an online application and paid a $30 fee to become part of Club 64, a private marijuana club named after the new pot law, Amendment 64. Members were advised of a private location in downtown Denver where they could attend a [...]

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  Colorado Legalization Used as Blueprint for Other States

  December 30, 2012 at 6:05 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization

  Just days after guiding a Colorado marijuana-legalization initiative to an unprecedented victory, longtime Denver marijuana activist Mason Tvert scored another win: a new job. Tvert is now the communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, the national lobbying group that is the parent organization for Tvert’s SAFER Colorado and was the main funder for Colorado’s Amendment 64. “I’m simply in a new role there, where I will be able to work on these issues around the nation,” Tvert said. Tvert’s [...]

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  Man Sues Colorado Police for $210,000 for Destroyed Marijuana Crops

  December 18, 2012 at 9:08 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  A man jurors acquitted of multiple marijuana felonies has sued the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office after his 42 plants were destroyed, according to a lawsuit recently filed in 8th Judicial District Court. Denver lawyer Rob Corry said his client expects to receive $5,000 per plant (totaling $210,000), based on what law enforcers have testified a marijuana plant is worth, in addition to attorney fees. Kaleb Young, 34, had been growing the plants in a Wellington home in compliance with Colorado’s [...]

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  Colorado pot legalization: 30 questions (and answers)

  December 13, 2012 at 11:54 pm / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization, Medical Marijuana

  The passage and governor’s proclamation of Amendment 64 on Monday, which makes Colorado one of the first two states to legalize limited possession and sales of marijuana, has prompted a flood of questions about what happens now. Here are some answers. Question: Wait, is pot really legal? Answer: Yes. But also no. It is now not against state law for people 21 and older in Colorado to use marijuana, to possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana and grow up [...]

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  Governor Makes Marijuana Legal in Colorado

  December 12, 2012 at 4:27 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization

  Governor Makes Marijuana Legal in Colorado – Pot smokers formally gained the right to light up in Colorado on Monday as Governor John Hickenlooper signed into effect a controversial ballot measure legalizing marijuana for adult recreational use in what proponents hailed as a “historic day.” Hickenlooper’s signature, largely a formality, made Colorado the second U.S. state after Washington to legalize recreational pot use, and put it on a possible collision course with the federal government – which calls marijuana an [...]

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  Marijuana Officially Legal in Colorado

  December 11, 2012 at 6:49 am / Cannabis News, Cannabis Politics, Marijuana Legalization

  The recreational use of marijuana officially became legal Monday in Colorado, a little more than a month after voters in the state passed an amendment in favor of the measure. “Voters were loud and clear on Election Day,” Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, said in a statement, as he signed an executive order to officially legalize the personal use and limited growing of marijuana for those 21 or older. Amendment 64, as it’s called, is now a part of the [...]

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