Pubdate: Sat, 27 Jun 2015
Source: Denver Post (CO)
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Author: Elizabeth Hernandez

POT ACTIVISTS HOPE TO PUT PUBLIC-USE MEASURE ON BALLOT

With time running out to make the November 2015 ballot, activists and 
Denver officials on Friday discussed a revised initiative that would 
allow pot consumption in places now offlimits.

After the first comment hearing last week between Brian Vicente and 
Mason Tvert - who co-wrote Amendment 64, which voters approved in 
2012, legalizing the sale and use of recreational marijuana - and 
assistant city attorney David Broadwell, the activists revised their 
proposal to clarify that their target locations to allow marijuana 
consumption are nonresidential properties where people under 21 are 
not permitted and the owner consents, such as bars.

The revision also included a proposal to allow consumption in 
designated outdoor spaces that are 25 feet from public view, such as 
rooftop bars.

"The big picture difference with this is that we took a lot of City 
Council's feedback about reasonable regulation the city can have," 
said Christian Sederberg, an author of Amendment 64 and a partner at 
marijuana law firm Vicente Sederberg.

One of the most noticeable changes to the proposal, Broadwell said, 
is the elimination of the term "commercial establishment," which 
originally described the locations the activists wanted to allow pot 
consumption under certain regulations.
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