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Denver Seeks to Allow Marijuana in Bars and Restaurants
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After a year and a half of retail pot sales in Colorado, activists have decided to take the concept of legal weed to the next level by campaigning to allow social pot consumption in businesses where booze is served.
Organizers behind the 2012 passing of Amendment 64 are hoping to get a new initiative on the ballot in Denver’s election this November that would allow voters to decide whether people should be permitted to smoke weed in specific commercial dwellings, such as bars and restaurants
The concept behind the measure, entitled “The Limited Social Marijuana Consumption Initiative,” is to give bars and restaurants the freedom to use a portion of their establishment for cannabis consumption. It is their belief that since bars and clubs allow patrons to consume alcohol, they should also permit the use of the state’s newly legal inebriant for recreational tokers.
“We’re proposing a narrow exemption to Denver’s current ban on social cannabis use by adults,” Mason Tvert, communications director with the Marijuana Policy Project and one of the sponsors of the proposal, told the Denver Post. “It would simply allow adults 21 and older to consume marijuana in designated areas and venues where only adults are allowed. This is allowing adults to have the option to use marijuana in certain venues that choose to allow it.”
Essentially, instead of continuing to segregate the two substances, the initiative would allow businesses that already serve booze to designate indoor and outdoor spaces that would allow individuals to partake away from the public eye. And since there is a statewide smoking ban in place, those businesses that opt to allow cannabis consumption would have the responsibility of remaining in compliance with the law.
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2015/06/denver-seeks-to-allow-marijuana-in-bars-and-restaurants/
