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A status conference was held Thursday between El Paso County attorneys and attorneys for the group suing the county for the ballot initiative regarding medical marijuana. Attorneys for the plaintiff requested an injunction against the election, which the judge denied.
The debate about medical marijuana continues as the election draws closer. Opponents of a November ballot issue that would ban medical marijuana dispensaries in unincorporated parts of El Paso County gathered today. This ban would affect about 76 businesses, those dispensaries and medical marijuana grow operations outside city limits. The ballot initiative is called 1A.
It’s called the Tax Payer’s Bill Of Rights (TABOR). Led by anti-tax crusader Douglas Bruce in the early 90s, some local opponents feel the ballot initiative never made sense from the beginning. “It’s full of mumbo jumbo,” said John Weiss, publisher of the Independent in Colorado Springs. Weiss, along with about 60 other community members, want to change TABOR in a big way by getting something on the November ballot.