Tag: marijuana
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EDITORIAL: When our highways are paved with pot
Society once vilified marijuana. Later generations of hipsters laughed off the stigma. Now, mounting evidence has brought things full circle — vindicating the psychoactive drug’s original critics after all. Today’s high-potency pot — legalized for recreational use in Colorado in 2012 and in over two dozen other states since then — is leaving a trail…
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Colorado Springs City Council vote extends split with mayor on how to spend marijuana tax revenue
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Springs City Council and Mayor Yemi Mobolade continue to split over how to budget the incoming sales tax revenue from recreational marijuana sales. In 2022, Colorado Springs voters established a 5% sales tax…
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Amid Colorado Springs budget shortfall, marijuana industry pushes back on departing from ‘will of the voters’
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As the city of Colorado Springs braces for a $11.5 million budget shortfall this year, it could use marijuana revenues to ease a small portion of the pain, but leaning too heavily on the money…
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Colorado Springs City Council, Mayor Mobolade at odds over marijuana tax revenues
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Springs City Council and Mayor Yemi Mobolade are at odds over the power to pick who will receive the tax revenues from recreational marijuana sales. Voters laid out the broad framework for marijuana tax revenues in 2022, requiring potentially millions to fund post-traumatic stress…
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Appeals court clarifies prohibition on lawyers doubling as witnesses covers more than jury trials
Colorado’s second-highest court clarified on Thursday that the rule generally prohibiting lawyers from also serving as witnesses at trial does not apply only to jury trials. Under Colorado’s rules of professional conduct, an attorney cannot litigate a case when the lawyer is likely to be a necessary witness “at trial.” There are limited exceptions, including…
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Mayor says zoning plan for recreational marijuana in Colorado Springs could take until 2025
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade said Thursday that the city may take until the start of 2025 to figure out what the voter-approved recreational marijuana ballot measure will look like in practice. City voters in November’s election approved Question 300, which would allow the existing…
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Gazette readers split on legalization of recreational marijuana sales in Colorado Springs
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Gazette readers are split in their support of a movement to legalize recreational marijuana sales in Colorado Springs, according to feedback the newspaper received on its social media over the weekend. The Gazette asked readers in two separate posts Friday on Facebook to share their…
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Air Force hits recruitment goal with new body fat standards, marijuana waivers and other changes
The Air Force hit its recruiting goal for 2024 after implementing numerous changes such new body fat standards, marijuana waivers and new legal permanent resident requirements. In a written statement, Brig. Gen. Christopher Amrhein, commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service, said no single change made the difference, but numerous factors helped, such as removing…
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Colorado Supreme Court takes up 6 cases on involuntary intoxication, malicious prosecution, child neglect trials
The Colorado Supreme Court announced on Monday it will hear appeals in six cases, including the question of whether a person can claim he knowingly ingested one substance that was secretly laced with another behavior-altering substance as a defense to criminal charges. At least three of the court’s seven members must agree to grant an…
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Divided 10th Circuit orders further evaluation of legality for $6.4 million judgment in cannabis case
The federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Monday that a Maryland man may be required to pay $6.4 million after all for breaching a contract with his intended partner in a cannabis company, so long as it does not require the manufacture or sale of marijuana. By 2-1, a three-judge panel of the…