Pubdate: Wed, 04 Jan 2012 Source: Summit Daily News (CO) Copyright: 2012 Summit Daily News Contact: http://apps.summitdaily.com/forms/letter/index.php Website: http://www.summitdaily.com/home.php Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/587 Note: form the Associated Press MARIJUANA ACTIVISTS TO TURN IN COLO. PETITION DENVER (AP) - The campaign to make marijuana legal in Colorado chose women activists to turn in petition signatures seeking a ballot question to challenge federal drug law on marijuana. The Campaign To Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol turned in some 160,000 signatures Wednesday in favor of the ballot initiative. The measure would make pot possession legal in small amounts for adults over 21, without a doctor's recommendation. Women who talked up the measure argued that marijuana is not as harmful as alcohol and that adults should be allowed to use pot recreationally. The state has 30 days to certify signatures and decide whether the pot measure will be on ballots. If approved, the marijuana question would be the first cleared for Colorado's 2012 election. - --- MAP posted-by: Jo-D