Katelyn Baker
Well-Known Member
Pueblo - It's one of the most heated issues on the Pueblo Ballot. Issue 200 asks voters whether or not to continue to allow retail marijuana sales in the county.
Some say it's a black eye for the community, others an economic boost, but the final word on the issue is being left up to Pueblo County voters.
Ballot Issue 200, proposed by Citizens for a Healthy Pueblo, would prohibit retail sales of recreational marijuana and require all existing retail marijuana facilities to close.
"It's what has happened to our community since the on set of retail marijuana. It's not the community it was," said Charlene Graham of Citizens for a Healthy Pueblo. "We were known as the home of heroes. Now we're being tagged as the Napa Valley of marijuana."
Proponents of 200 argue that retail marijuana hasn't been good for the community.
"We have a lot of people coming in town looking for that dollar bill and they're not finding it and they're ending up homeless, they're ending up on the streets, they're ending up users themselves," said former Deputy Police Chief John Ercul.
On the other side of the issue, Growing Pueblos Future, also known as Vote No on 200, say 200 would take a toll on the Pueblo Economy.
"Proposition 200 is so damaging to our community. It's going to destroy 1300 state licensed jobs, but it's going to do absolutely nothing to change a person's ability to grow, possess or consume marijuana here in Pueblo County," said Growing Pueblo's Future spokesperson Jim Parco.
Pueblo County currently has 23 recreational marijuana dispensaries. If 200 passes, they would no longer be able to sell retail marijuana, but some of their doors could still stay open if they have medical marijuana licenses.
"All the community projects that we've been wanting to build for years that we haven't been able to we finally have the money to do that," added Parco. "If proposition 200 passes all that goes away, we add 1300 people to the unemployment lines and nothing changes with marijuana."
The ballot issue relates strictly to recreational marijuana and would have no bearing on medical marijuana.
Plus, 200 isn't the only pot issue on the county ballot. Another issue, 1C, the county's Home Grow Resolution, will ask voters if they would like the county to demand action from the state and make it illegal to grow more than 18 plants per parcel of medical marijuana in a residential area.
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Some say it's a black eye for the community, others an economic boost, but the final word on the issue is being left up to Pueblo County voters.
Ballot Issue 200, proposed by Citizens for a Healthy Pueblo, would prohibit retail sales of recreational marijuana and require all existing retail marijuana facilities to close.
"It's what has happened to our community since the on set of retail marijuana. It's not the community it was," said Charlene Graham of Citizens for a Healthy Pueblo. "We were known as the home of heroes. Now we're being tagged as the Napa Valley of marijuana."
Proponents of 200 argue that retail marijuana hasn't been good for the community.
"We have a lot of people coming in town looking for that dollar bill and they're not finding it and they're ending up homeless, they're ending up on the streets, they're ending up users themselves," said former Deputy Police Chief John Ercul.
On the other side of the issue, Growing Pueblos Future, also known as Vote No on 200, say 200 would take a toll on the Pueblo Economy.
"Proposition 200 is so damaging to our community. It's going to destroy 1300 state licensed jobs, but it's going to do absolutely nothing to change a person's ability to grow, possess or consume marijuana here in Pueblo County," said Growing Pueblo's Future spokesperson Jim Parco.
Pueblo County currently has 23 recreational marijuana dispensaries. If 200 passes, they would no longer be able to sell retail marijuana, but some of their doors could still stay open if they have medical marijuana licenses.
"All the community projects that we've been wanting to build for years that we haven't been able to we finally have the money to do that," added Parco. "If proposition 200 passes all that goes away, we add 1300 people to the unemployment lines and nothing changes with marijuana."
The ballot issue relates strictly to recreational marijuana and would have no bearing on medical marijuana.
Plus, 200 isn't the only pot issue on the county ballot. Another issue, 1C, the county's Home Grow Resolution, will ask voters if they would like the county to demand action from the state and make it illegal to grow more than 18 plants per parcel of medical marijuana in a residential area.
News Moderator: Katelyn Baker 420 MAGAZINE ®
Full Article: Retail Marijuana On The Ballot For Pueblo County
Author: Shayla Girardin
Contact: (719) 630-3930
Photo Credit: Shango Los
Website: KOAA
