The Daily Sentinel, 26 Sep 2010 – Although I didn’t vote in favor of Amendment 20, which amended the state Constitution to permit the use of marijuana for medical purposes, I don’t support Ref 1A, which bans medical marijuana centers in unincorporated Mesa County. As an elected official, I took an oath of office to uphold the Constitution and I don’t get to pick and choose the parts of it I like. Likewise, the voters of one part of the state shouldn’t be allowed to opt out of the Constitution on a county-by-county basis.