Colorado: Marijuana festivel nixed, but might be on the ballot in Spring

Tue, Jan 26 2010 — Source: Denver Post

A celebration of the 25,000 beneficial uses of marijuana ”” proposed for a local ballfield ”” was snuffed out by the Nederland Board of Trustees last week. But a vote on decriminalizing marijuana for all 1,400 residents of Nederland might be coming in April, sealing the Boulder County mountain town’s reputation as a go-with-the-flow haven for iconoclasts. “We’ve got a long-standing history of a kind of counterculture kind of town,” said Town Trustee Marci Wheelock. “A lot of people can move here, and they can do what they want, and your neighbors aren’t into each other’s business.”