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Colorado Lights Up The New Year

Quinta-feira, 02.01.14

The Huffington Post
01.01.2014

 

Recreational marijuana shops open in Colorado

 

For more than 70 years, the sale of marijuana for recreational use has been criminally prohibited in the United States. But that ban, as it has existed for decades, ended Wednesday in Colorado.

 

The historic first, legal sales of recreational marijuana to those 21-and-older began in the morning at select dispensaries in Colorado – the first state in the nation, and the first government in the world, to control and regulate a legal recreational marijuana industry.

 

"This is a big day," said Tom Angell, chairman of drug reform group Marijuana Majority, to The Huffington Post. "With what Colorado is doing now, and what Washington state and Uruguay will do later this year, we're finally getting a chance to show the world the benefits of legalizing and regulating marijuana that we've been talking about for so many years. Bringing the market above ground will generate tax revenue, create jobs and take money out of the hands of the violent drug cartels and gangs that control the trade where marijuana is illegal. Once other states and countries see these proven results, they'll want to get rid of their prohibition laws too."

 

(huffingtonpost.com)

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