The public comment period at last night’s city council meeting was used for a unified appeal to the city council to repeal the city’s ban on the growing-packaging-retail sales of marijuana.  While possession and personal use is legal in the city under Initiative 502, the city has responded to the local public’s vote on the statewide measure – a 56 percent NO vote -- and has used its constitutional land use authority to deny local business licenses to those who want to open up pot shops.

At this point the majority of the council isn’t interested in revisiting the ban, but a new council might be. A couple of the candidates are already on record saying they would support a repeal of the ban.

What do you think? Should the ban stay in place?

Meantime, in marijuana news out of Denver, activists are now pushing for what they're calling legal "limited social use" of the drug.

Currently, people in Denver can only consume marijuana in places like private homes or rare hotel rooms where it's allowed. Marijuana smoke is viewed the same as cigarette smoke under the Clean Indoor Air Act, meaning it's banned in all the same places as cigarette smoke.

The activists say the restrictions can leave pot users isolated and tourists who want to use the drug not knowing where they can do it so they are trying to gather signatures to get the issue on the November ballot.

The new law would allow commercial establishments that serve alcohol to allow marijuana consumption and provide for some marijuana-only businesses.

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