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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Colorado Springs City Council gives preliminary OK to marijuana paraphernalia law 🌿Colorado Springs City Council gives preliminary OK to marijuana paraphernalia law
A passel of parents protested a pot paraphernalia ordinance Tuesday for Colorado Springs, deeming it unnecessary, duplicative of state law and an attack on medical marijuana patients who are minors.
The law won preliminary City Council approval on a 7-2 vote, with Councilors Helen Collins and Bill Murray dissenting.
"This is seriously an overreach that will result in a police state," Murray said.
The city ordinance largely echoes state law, mandating that minors under age 18 cannot possess the paraphernalia unless they are medical marijuana patients. But the District Attorney's Office doesn't make marijuana-related crimes a priority, so a local law is needed to spur local prosecution, city documents say.
The Colorado Springs version imposes a fine of up to $500, rather than the state maximum of $200, but the "most likely sentence" will be probation or a deferred sentence with treatment and education conditions, the documents say.
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