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.
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