{"id":1272,"date":"2012-04-18T07:17:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T07:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=14492"},"modified":"2012-04-18T07:17:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T07:17:35","slug":"state-legislators-show-support-for-marijuana-legalization-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/state-legislators-show-support-for-marijuana-legalization-in-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"State Legislators show Support for Marijuana Legalization in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/state-legislators-show-support-for-marijuana-legalization-in-colorado\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"289\" height=\"175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/colorado-legislature.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"colorado legislature\" title=\"colorado legislature\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14558\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/state-legislators-show-support-for-marijuana-legalization-in-colorado\/attachment\/colorado-legislature\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-14558\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/colorado-legislature-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>In a matter of a few years marijuana has made tremendous strides in shedding its taboo status and gaining mainstream acceptability.\u00a0 Polls are regularly showing an increase in positive views on medical marijuana and marijuana legalization.\u00a0 Is our elected representation shifting their attitudes as well?<\/p>\n<p>How many high profile state democrats would have backed marijuana legalization in the 1970s, 1990s, or even 2005?\u00a0 The efforts of <a href=\"http:\/\/regulatemarijuanalikewine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol <\/a>have played a large roll in changing the political atmosphere in Colorado.\u00a0 RMLA helped to collect more than the 86,000 signatures needed collected to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regulatemarijuana.org\/s\/regulate-marijuana-alcohol-act-2012\" target=\"_blank\">amendment\u00a0 64<\/a> on the ballot.\u00a0 If passed the bill will legalize marijuana and set up a system, as the name suggests, to regulate marijuana like alcohol.\u00a0 The chair of the Denver Democratic Party, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverdems.org\/content\/cindy-lowery-graber\" target=\"_blank\">Cindy Lowery-Gra ber<\/a>, has recently stated her support for bill and said &#8220;this is a mainstream issue. Polls show that more than 60 percent of Democrats and a solid majority of independents believe marijuana should be treated like alcohol. A broad coalition is forming in support of Amendment 64 and I am proud to say that it now includes the Colorado Democratic Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement comes from the right person at the right time.\u00a0 Democrats have a strong presence in Colorado and the state\u2019s residents may be poised to be the first (several other states like Washington will also vote on legalization in November) state with totally legalized marijuana on a state level.\u00a0 Colorado has taken precautions to avoid the legal mess in California as they have put a more structured program run by the state.\u00a0 This singular authority eliminates the problem of individual municipalities interpreting medical marijuana law as they see fit.\u00a0 It seems many elected officials agree with Cindy Lower-Graber as 8 of the 10 largest counties in Colorado support amendment 64.<\/p>\n<p>The fight for marijuana reform is no longer being fought solely by hardcore activists.\u00a0 Although the feds seem intent on fighting its own people over a healing plant, many other government officials have now joined the movement.\u00a0 As stated above, supporting marijuana publicly was a difficult political platform previously, but in a few years it may be a difficult position not to support it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"289\" height=\"175\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/colorado-legislature.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"colorado legislature\" title=\"colorado legislature\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14558\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/state-legislators-show-support-for-marijuana-legalization-in-colorado\/attachment\/colorado-legislature\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-14558\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/colorado-legislature-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>In a matter of a few years marijuana has made tremendous strides in shedding its taboo status and gaining mainstream acceptability.\u00a0 Polls are regularly showing an increase in positive views on medical marijuana and marijuana legalization.\u00a0 Is our elected representation shifting their attitudes as well?<\/p>\n<p>How many high profile state democrats would have backed marijuana legalization in the 1970s, 1990s, or even 2005?\u00a0 The efforts of <a href=\"http:\/\/regulatemarijuanalikewine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol <\/a>have played a large roll in changing the political atmosphere in Colorado.\u00a0 RMLA helped to collect more than the 86,000 signatures needed collected to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regulatemarijuana.org\/s\/regulate-marijuana-alcohol-act-2012\" target=\"_blank\">amendment\u00a0 64<\/a> on the ballot.\u00a0 If passed the bill will legalize marijuana and set up a system, as the name suggests, to regulate marijuana like alcohol.\u00a0 The chair of the Denver Democratic Party, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverdems.org\/content\/cindy-lowery-graber\" target=\"_blank\">Cindy Lowery-Gra ber<\/a>, has recently stated her support for bill and said &#8220;this is a mainstream issue. Polls show that more than 60 percent of Democrats and a solid majority of independents believe marijuana should be treated like alcohol. A broad coalition is forming in support of Amendment 64 and I am proud to say that it now includes the Colorado Democratic Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement comes from the right person at the right time.\u00a0 Democrats have a strong presence in Colorado and the state\u2019s residents may be poised to be the first (several other states like Washington will also vote on legalization in November) state with totally legalized marijuana on a state level.\u00a0 Colorado has taken precautions to avoid the legal mess in California as they have put a more structured program run by the state.\u00a0 This singular authority eliminates the problem of individual municipalities interpreting medical marijuana law as they see fit.\u00a0 It seems many elected officials agree with Cindy Lower-Graber as 8 of the 10 largest counties in Colorado support amendment 64.<\/p>\n<p>The fight for marijuana reform is no longer being fought solely by hardcore activists.\u00a0 Although the feds seem intent on fighting its own people over a healing plant, many other government officials have now joined the movement.\u00a0 As stated above, supporting marijuana publicly was a difficult political platform previously, but in a few years it may be a difficult position not to support it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[334,45,52,1246,166,1247,56,9,51,70,328,1,3,61],"tags":[2912,2628,2632,3816,2744,3817,2636,2631,5,2906,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}