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Pottstown Mercury, 13 Feb 2013 – DENVER (AP) – Marijuana may be coming out of the black market in Colorado and Washington state, but the drug, at least for now, will retain a decidedly underground feel: Users may not know what’s in it. Less than a year away from allowing pot sales, regulators are grappling with how to ensure that the nation’s first legal marijuana industry will grow weed that delivers only the effects that pot smokers want.

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The Steamboat Today, 06 Feb 2013 – Steamboat Springs – Steamboat Springs has joined a growing list of municipalities in Colorado that have adopted emergency ordinances temporarily banning the establishment of private marijuana clubs. Tuesday night’s Steamboat Springs City Council passage of an emergency moratorium will prevent the formation of any marijuana clubs within city limits until the council has a chance to start crafting a more permanent ordinance regulating all facets of Amendment 64, which legalized the consumption of marijuana in the state for adults 21 and older.

Summit Daily News, 06 Feb 2013 – Council Approves Temporary Ban On Permits For Recreational Cannabis Businesses The Dillon Town Council approved a temporary ban on issuing permits for recreational marijuana businesses at its Tuesday night meeting. The motion passed with a 6-1 vote. All council members were present.

Colorado Springs Independent, 06 Feb 2013 – Four years ago, Michelle Obama picked up a shovel to make a powerful symbolic statement about America’s food-and-farm future: She turned a patch of White House lawn into a working organic garden. So I’m guessing that now, as she begins another four years in the people’s mansion, the First Lady is asking herself: "What next? What can I do this time around to plant a crop of common sense in our country’s political soil that will link America’s farmers, consumers, environment, and grassroots economy in one big harvest of common good?"

The Aspen Times, 05 Feb 2013 – [name redacted] Pleads Guilty To Reduced Charges ASPEN – An Aspen man arrested in December on drug-possession and drunken-driving charges told a judge Monday that he regards the incident as a "life changing" moment.

Denver Post, 04 Feb 2013 – WESTMINSTER’S STANCE AGAINST MARIJUANA It’s refreshing to see a story on a Colorado city taking a stance against marijuana. Most stories revolving around marijuana make it out to seem as though its users are oppressed and not getting the equal rights of non-smoking citizens.

Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan 2013 – Entrepreneurs Ramp Up After the State’s Voters Approved a Constitutional Amendment Legalizing Recreational Use of Pot DENVER – Two hedge-fund partners – monogrammed shirts, taut Windsor knots, cuff links – step into a hipster cafe called Sputnik on an unorthodox mission.

The Mountain Jackpot News, 27 Jan 2013 – Colorado voters may have said ‘yes’ to the legality of adults taking a few marijuana hits for fun and growing cannabis plant in their backyards, but their local leaders have alternative intentions with one stern message: Forget buying legal weed in our community or smoking joints in private clubs. Last week, the El Paso County Commissioners made it official and outlawed any recreational marijuana stores or commercial sales opportunities in the unincorporated sections of El Paso, including the lower Ute Pass area. With this action, the commissioners may have killed a potential industry estimated at filling government coffers with thousands of dollars. And later in the week, the city of Woodland Park further expanded its moratorium against the issuing of permits for future marijuana businesses by passing the first reading of a law that temporarily bans pot clubs. The latter type of establishments have become one of the side-controversies of Amendment 64, with the possible advent of Amsterdam-like private clubs where people can gather to smoke pot and drink coffee or other non-alcoholic beverages. The current law doesn’t permit the smoking of pot in public areas, but it doesn’t impose any rules against private clubs as long as no commercial marijuana sales activity occurs.