{"id":1540,"date":"2012-02-28T08:47:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T08:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=12505"},"modified":"2012-02-28T08:47:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T08:47:52","slug":"colorado-residents-will-get-to-vote-on-legalizing-marijuana-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/colorado-residents-will-get-to-vote-on-legalizing-marijuana-in-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Residents Will get to Vote on Legalizing Marijuana in November"},"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\/colorado-residents-will-get-to-vote-on-legalizing-marijuana-in-november\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/voting-boothe.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"voting boothe\" title=\"voting boothe\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-12508\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/colorado-residents-will-get-to-vote-on-legalizing-marijuana-in-november\/attachment\/voting-boothe\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12508\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/voting-boothe-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The 2012 election already was gearing up to be a historic election between the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">GOP <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/administration\/president-obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obam<\/a>a.\u00a0 We also cannot lose sight of the house and senate races which will bombard our televisions. Besides its 9 electoral votes being up for grabs, Colorado figures to be a focal point this November as they were finally able to collect enough signatures to get the legalization effort on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a push (lead by the group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regulatemarijuana.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol<\/a>) in Colorado to collect enough signatures and get the marijuana legalization initiative on the ballot.\u00a0 Initially, almost double the required 86,105 signatures were submitted.\u00a0 State officials rejected many of the signatures on the basis that they were invalid. \u00a0The initiative fell just short by about 2,400 signatures but over 12,000 were submitted just before the deadline.\u00a0 Yesterday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.co.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Secretary of State\u2019s <\/a>office announced that enough signatures were collected and that the initiative will be placed on the ballots for voters to decide.\u00a0 Colorado voters had a similar opportunity in 2006 to legalize marijuana but chose not to.\u00a0 California also rejected similar measures in 2010, but advocates are hopeful that the current initiative is a better plan and polls show much more support around the country for legalization.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado will not be the only state where recreational marijuana could be legalized.\u00a0 Through the efforts of <a href=\"http:\/\/newapproachwa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Approach Washington<\/a> and their high profile team of U.S. attorneys, Judges, and law enforcement members, enough signatures were collected to place the issue on the ballots.\u00a0 The Washington plan calls for a system of regulation similar to alcohol.\u00a0 Other states may be poised to make serious changes to marijuana laws as well.\u00a0 Michigan and Missouri are among several other states where ballot initiatives are underway to legalize cannabis.\u00a0 There are also 17 other states with pending legislation to legalize medical marijuana and likely a few more on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Calendar year 2012 already has the ingredients to make even more history than a normal presidential election year.\u00a0 This truly may be the year where we have one or more states that have totally legalized marijuana.\u00a0 While this may not provide any additional protection from the federal government, raids are harder to conduct when marijuana is permitted and available throughout a state and not just in easily identifiable store fronts.\u00a0 The federal government may be forced to consider reclassification earlier than they would like, unless they plan on storming the back yards of residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"290\" height=\"174\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/voting-boothe.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"voting boothe\" title=\"voting boothe\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-12508\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/colorado-residents-will-get-to-vote-on-legalizing-marijuana-in-november\/attachment\/voting-boothe\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12508\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/voting-boothe-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The 2012 election already was gearing up to be a historic election between the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">GOP <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/administration\/president-obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obam<\/a>a.\u00a0 We also cannot lose sight of the house and senate races which will bombard our televisions. Besides its 9 electoral votes being up for grabs, Colorado figures to be a focal point this November as they were finally able to collect enough signatures to get the legalization effort on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>There has been a push (lead by the group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regulatemarijuana.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol<\/a>) in Colorado to collect enough signatures and get the marijuana legalization initiative on the ballot.\u00a0 Initially, almost double the required 86,105 signatures were submitted.\u00a0 State officials rejected many of the signatures on the basis that they were invalid. \u00a0The initiative fell just short by about 2,400 signatures but over 12,000 were submitted just before the deadline.\u00a0 Yesterday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.co.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Secretary of State\u2019s <\/a>office announced that enough signatures were collected and that the initiative will be placed on the ballots for voters to decide.\u00a0 Colorado voters had a similar opportunity in 2006 to legalize marijuana but chose not to.\u00a0 California also rejected similar measures in 2010, but advocates are hopeful that the current initiative is a better plan and polls show much more support around the country for legalization.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado will not be the only state where recreational marijuana could be legalized.\u00a0 Through the efforts of <a href=\"http:\/\/newapproachwa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Approach Washington<\/a> and their high profile team of U.S. attorneys, Judges, and law enforcement members, enough signatures were collected to place the issue on the ballots.\u00a0 The Washington plan calls for a system of regulation similar to alcohol.\u00a0 Other states may be poised to make serious changes to marijuana laws as well.\u00a0 Michigan and Missouri are among several other states where ballot initiatives are underway to legalize cannabis.\u00a0 There are also 17 other states with pending legislation to legalize medical marijuana and likely a few more on the way.<\/p>\n<p>Calendar year 2012 already has the ingredients to make even more history than a normal presidential election year.\u00a0 This truly may be the year where we have one or more states that have totally legalized marijuana.\u00a0 While this may not provide any additional protection from the federal government, raids are harder to conduct when marijuana is permitted and available throughout a state and not just in easily identifiable store fronts.\u00a0 The federal government may be forced to consider reclassification earlier than they would like, unless they plan on storming the back yards of residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[293,52,166,430,77,9,51,70,106,328,1,3,61],"tags":[2871,2632,2744,3008,2655,2631,5,2684,2906,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540"}],"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=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}