So I got the 2012 State ballot information booklet in the mail the other day and reading through it I just cannot grasp how dense people are. What am I talking about? Amendment 64: Use and Regulation of Marijuana.
Colorado Amendment 64 is an amendment to the Article 18 of the Colorado state constitution. Section 3 would allow the "personal use and regulation of marijuana" for adults 21 and over. Section 4 addresses legal commercial cultivation, manufacture, and sale. The intent is that marijuana be regulated in a manner similar to alcohol.
This would effectively make it legal to purchase pot for adults 21+, no medical card needed- it would be just like alcohol. But the main problem with this is:
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Cannabis is classified as a Schedule I drug under the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970 and is deemed to have a high potential for abuse and no legitimate medical uses. As such, it prohibits the possession, usage, purchase, sale, and/or cultivation of marijuana.
So they would make it legal in CO but it is still a federal Schedule I drug and it is still illegal on a federal level. Thus, this would be bad for businesses that decide to do so because it would open the door for the big bad feds to come in and prosecute.

How do you all feel about this? Personally, I can go either way, but overall I'm annoyed by all this obsession with marijuana- I see it all the time, I hear people talk about it all the time... if they just made it legal on a federal level I wonder if people would just STFU already about it.