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GOING TO POT?

If you've come to the conclusion that Colorado voters created an unintended fraud when they approved the "medical" marijuana scam, just wait until voters approve Amendment 64.  This latest con job attempts to legalize possession, use, and growing of pot for adults, and ultimately wants to tax it like alcohol.

As if consuming alcohol is some kind of benign activity never subject to abuse, law enforcement resources, highway mayhem, or assorted medical conditions.  But perhaps that's not the worst part of this citizen-initiated hoax.

Approving Amendment 64 makes it a permanent fixture in Colorado's Constitution.  Like several other recent constitutional amendments approved by voters it makes it nearly impossible for legislative remedies to balance conflicting fiscal and administrative needs.  Stuffing this thing in our state Constitution conflicts with existing federal laws and is an open invitation for expensive and protracted litigation along with additional fiscal burdens for a state not entirely flush with extra cash.

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