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Governor Signs Amendment 64 Legalizing Marijuana Use

It's official. Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has signed Amendment 64. Adult possession of small amounts of marijuana is no longer a state crime in Colorado.

Hickenlooper also issued an executive order today forming the 24-member Force on the Implementation of Amendment 64. Its membership will include lawmakers and stakeholders representing the interests of prosecutors, defense lawyers, the medical marijuana industry, backers of Amendment 64, the addiction treatment community, public health institutions, cities, counties, “a representative of marijuana consumers,” employers and employees, among others.

Its meetings will be public, and the targeted date for its recommendations to the governor is Feb. 28.

Congratulations, Coloradans. You did it. Voting matters.

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    by lentinel on Mon Dec 10, 2012 at 04:14:09 PM EST
    voting mattered.

    I wouldn't go so far as to make a generalization about the efficacy of voting, but in this case, it mattered big time.

    It would be nice if we had more opportunities to express ourselves directly on matters that directly concern us. War for example. The practice of w