The Gazette, 26 Nov 2012 – Amendment 64’s legalization of marijuana drew the nation’s eyes to Colorado on Election Day. In the ensuing media frenzy, another portion of the ballot measure got lost – Colorado will likely legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp. Tons of industrial hemp is imported into Colorado and other states annually from Canada, China and other countries, and hemp products are manufactured and sold throughout the country. But it remains illegal to grow hemp in the United States under federal law.

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Fruita Times, 22 Nov 2012 – Colorado voters on Election Day approved Amendment 64 by nearly 55 percent of the votes, joining Washington as the first states in the nation to legalize marijuana use, possession of up to one ounce, authorization to grow up to six plants per residence and made way for retail sales. So, let’s get out in the garden, open up retail pot shops and openly light up that joint whenever or wherever we feel like it.

The Daily Sentinel, 23 Nov 2012 – In the wake of the recent passage of Colorado Amendment 64, Mesa County seems set on a path to ban outright marijuana retail stores and facilities in unincorporated parts of the county. Commissioner Steve Acquafresca, who is the lone current commissioner set to serve next year’s term, as Commissioners Craig Meis and Janet Rowland are term-limited at the end of this year, said he foresees the county pursuing a ban of marijuana retail facilities sometime soon.

The Cortez Journal, 24 Nov 2012 – Training looks at possible impacts of the drug in the home Whether you voted for or against Amendment 64, curiosity on how the issue will be handled within the community is on everyone’s mind. Coincidentally, the NEST Child Advocacy Center held training for community leaders on Thursday, Nov. 15. The training, which was scheduled prior to the passage of Amendment 64, focused on the effects marijuana has on children in the home environment.

The Daily Sentinel, 25 Nov 2012 – What a great letter Dr. Sherman Straw had published in The Daily Sentinel Nov. 16, regarding legalizing marijuana. He covered both common sense and facts. I was shocked when Amendment 64 passed in Colorado. What I heard must have been the majority of Colorado voters singing "California, Here We Come" on their way to the polls.

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The Gazette, 24 Nov 2012 – Caring Adults Must Take on This Task Colorado voters legalized marijuana by a significant margin. The constitutional amendment passed even in El Paso County – a jurisdiction known for conservative, Christian values. This means the desire to stop using cops and courts to fight a common weed has come mainstream. It means legalization isn’t favored only by hippies and addicts.

Denver Post, 21 Nov 2012 – Re: "Kowtowing to federal authority on Amendment 64," Nov. 18 Vincent Carroll column. Normally, I could not be farther away from Vincent Carroll on most issues, but I had to applaud his outstanding column on the passage of Amendment 64.

Colorado Springs Independent, 21 Nov 2012 – "It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." – Justice Louis D. Brandeis (in dissent), New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann 285 U.S. 262 (1932). By approving Amendment 64 on Nov. 6, Colorado voters did what generations of craven elected officials, from city councilors to district attorneys to state legislators to governors to congressmen to every president since 1970, have been afraid to do. They challenged the lunatic might of the national drug-control bureaucracy.