{"id":31252,"date":"2012-11-06T21:38:20","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T04:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/going-to-pot-in-colorado.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T23:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T05:28:00","slug":"going-to-pot-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/going-to-pot-in-colorado.html","title":{"rendered":"Going to Pot in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well. This should be interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, hemp production.<\/p>\n<p>I foresee some interesting butting heads with the Feds, and lots of role reversals over how federalism is supposed to work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/111267716732125387127'>The Denver Post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>UPDATE: An amendment that would make it legal in Colorado for individuals to possess and for businesses to sell marijuana for recreational use has passed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/extras.mnginteractive.com\/live\/media\/site36\/2012\/1106\/20121106__colorado_marijuana_ballot~p1.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/breakingnews\/ci_21941918\/nation-watches-colorados-marijuana-legalization-vote\/#ixzz2BVYT0kAi'>Colorado measure legalizing marijuana passes &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAn amendment that would make it legal in Colorado for individuals to possess and for businesses to sell marijuana for recreational use has passed.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/7Vw3tPBcr28' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well. This should be interesting. Plus, hemp production. I foresee some interesting butting heads with the Feds, and lots of role reversals over how federalism is supposed to work. Reshared post from +The Denver Post UPDATE: An amendment that would make it legal in Colorado for individuals to possess and for businesses to sell marijuana &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/06\/going-to-pot-in-colorado.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Going to Pot in Colorado&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129501,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/16\/amazon-will-collect-colorado-sales-tax-as-of-february.html","url_meta":{"origin":31252,"position":0},"title":"Amazon will collect Colorado sales tax as of February","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 16-Jan-16 1:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"Starting next month, Amazon will start collecting state sales taxes (2.9%) on purchases made by Colorado residents; this is the 28th state Amazon will be doing that for.Technically, of course, all Colorado residents under state law are already supposed to keep track of what sales tax they owe on Internet\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137974,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/26\/a-particular-welcome-to-colorado.html","url_meta":{"origin":31252,"position":1},"title":"A particular welcome to Colorado","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 26-Feb-19 8:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"There's a new billboard along I-70 near the Utah-Colorado border. 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