Question 300, Issue 301: Colorado Springs voters appear to decide against legalizing recreational marijuana sales - Colorado Public Radio

Colorado Springs residents look to person voted down a ballot measurement that would person allowed the merchantability of recreational marijuana wrong metropolis limits. The ballot measure, if rejected, would reaffirm the city’s hostility toward the decade-old industry.

Late Tuesday night, voters were rejecting recreational cannabis income successful Colorado Springs by a sizable margin.

The 2022 predetermination marked the archetypal clip the citizens of Colorado Springs had a nonstop accidental successful whether to let recreational dispensaries. At this point, and into the contiguous future, the city’s 114 marijuana businesses volition proceed to lone beryllium capable to merchantability to card-carrying aesculapian marijuana patients. 

At the predetermination nighttime ticker enactment for Your Choice Colorado Springs — the governmental enactment committee supporting the 2 marijuana measures — those gathered disquieted that dozens of aesculapian dispensaries who were hardly staying unfastened waiting for results of the legalization effort whitethorn present adjacent their doors.

“They've been bleeding money, they've been struggling to enactment unfastened but [we] were hoping that contiguous they'd get a effect that would amusement assurance successful them and their businesses successful town,” said Anthony Carlson, Your Choice Colorado Springs Campaign Manager.  “They're going to beryllium astir apt facing immoderate truly pugnacious decisions present implicit the adjacent fewer weeks and months of what they proceed to bash with themselves.”

Carlson conceded Tuesday nighttime that supporters’ hopes for transition of the ballot measurement to legalize the merchantability of recreational cannabis, Question 300, were present apt over.

Oddly, 1 of the 2 marijuana measures connected the ballot did pass. Issue 301 — which would person directed taxes from the merchantability of recreational cookware toward intelligence wellness and nationalist information programs — got the support of Springs voters. Yet, the transition of that measurement is present rendered efficaciously meaningless with the nonaccomplishment of Question 300, which would person made those recreational income ineligible successful the archetypal place. 

Recreational marijuana income does look to person had occurrence connected the ballot successful the tiny adjacent municipality of Palmer Lake. That assemblage volition present apt let up to 2 recreational dispensaries successful municipality aft voters approved a measurement there. Recreational cannabis income are besides ineligible successful Manitou Springs successful El Paso County.