Public Pot Smoking Could Be Put To Vote

CBS Denver ^ | June 18, 2015

[nickcarraway]

Marijuana use could soon be seen in bars, restaurants, or any public place if a proposed ballot measure makes it on the ballot and is passed by voters.

“It says any private business can decide if it wants to permit adults to use marijuana,” said marijuana proponent Mason Tvert.

Tvert, well-known as the driving force behind Amendment 64 which legalized recreational marijuana in Colorado, is considering a new ballot measure that would vastly expand where people can use pot in Denver.

“The community in Denver has been very clear that they don’t think adults should be treated like second-class citizens simply because they prefer to use marijuana instead of drinking when they socialize with their friends,” said Tvert.

The measure is still being drafted but right now would allow adults 21 and older to use marijuana at any commercial establishment that permits it, out of public view and in compliance with the clean indoor air act, meaning smoking would only be allowed in enclosed outdoor spaces.

“We don’t want to see adults on the streets or in our parks using marijuana because they are visiting from out of town and don’t have anywhere else to go,” said Tvert.

Denver City Council President Chris Nevitt agrees but said the city still needs to be able to regulate where and when marijuana use is allowed. “If our hands are suddenly tied by a ballot measure, I think that would be a bad thing,” said Nevitt. The other bigger issue is state law prohibits “open and public consumption” of marijuana.

“It’s obviously a situation where there is some lack of clarity,” said Tvert.

Rep. Jonathan Singer, a Democrat representing Longmont, said it’s time the state Legislature clarified what open and public means for the entire state. “This is really hard to put it to a head in the sense that now we have to start dealing with this as state lawmakers,” said Singer. “We should have an open and public discussion about open and public consumption.”

Supporters of the ballot measure said they will decide in the next couple of days whether to move forward with the proposal. They would need more than 47,000 signatures to get the measure on the ballot this November.

[nickcarraway]

Can cigarettes be smoked in public?

[Publius]

Restaurants, convenience stores and supermarkets want the “munchies” crowd.

[KC_Lion]

Can cigarettes be smoked in public?

Any more that is a very good question!

[MaxMax]

Can cigarettes be smoked in public?

No. But the hippies will blow pot smoke in your face so you can lose your job.

[teacherwoes]

Since health experts often warn about the dangers of 2nd and 3rd hand smoke from cigarettes. It will be interesting to see if these health experts will also warn against the dangers of smoke from pot.

[Rusty0604]

So pot smoke is fine in restaurants and bars but tobacco smoke is not?

[Grams A]

Can cigarettes be smoked in public?”

Of course not. Think about the health of others around them that is being impaired by cigarette smoke. And you know how smoking cigarettes impairs your judgment. You also surely must be aware of the gazillions of people who have died as the result of being involved in an auto accident when the driver responsible for the accident was a cigarette smoker.

[LukeL]

How about doing lines off of the bar?

[DiogenesLamp]

Public Pot Smoking Could Be Put To Vote

We have the stupidest President in History. We have a 65 year old man now being celebrated for becoming a 30 year old woman. We have China running rampant through our government's personnel records. We have 18 trillion in admitted debt, and probably 100 trillion in actual debt. We have a drug addled young man shoot nine innocent people in a church, and now they are talking about putting some inconsequential woman on the $10.00 bill only because they don't think it's fair that a woman hasn't achieved such a distinction.

And now we want the public to vote on whether or not to allow the smoking of Pot in public.

There is a reason all these things are happening now. It's because this generation is the silliest and most unserious crop of idiots that have ever emerged in a prosperous nation.

We have reached Idiocracy,

except instead of a Macho President Comacho,

we have an imbecilic pansy poofter.

[aquila48]

What about second hand pot smoke?

Am I going to be protected from it or will I just have to get stoned?

[Proud2BeRight]

Just like the homosexual mafia, the dope smokers won’t quit shoveling their crap at decent society.

[GeronL]

They will not give up until they are giving it to the kids in school against parents wishes.

[Pirate Ragnar]

In the People’s Republic of Santa Monica, you cannot smoke a cigarette on the beach, on the pier, in any park, withing 20’ of any doorway and in any common area of an apartment. Dope?,I dunno.

[noinfringers2]

Add to all things mentioned is that soft headed socialists who make money from selling their brainy or brainless boxes to people who have no real concept of US history blood and sacrifice give profits from their money ventures to undocumented freeloaders: ie Zuckenberg and his care less about the US wife.

[RginTN]

just like the homonazis pot activists go to the extreme to normalize their behavior.

[Bobalu]

I have asthma, and even so, I think people should be allowed to smoke in bars that allow it...both tobacco and MJ.

I’m no fan of the nanny state.

[familyop]

"Since health experts often warn about the dangers of 2nd and 3rd hand smoke from cigarettes. It will be interesting to see if these health experts will also warn against the dangers of smoke from pot."

Quite a few doctors and male nurses, especially in tourist areas, are getting high. Too many of them are homos with attitudes, too.

[familyop]

"And now we want the public to vote on whether or not to allow the smoking of Pot in public."

The majority of influential political volks in CO (many of them from NY, NJ and SF, CA) voted to legalize it. They'll probably vote in favor of smoking it in public, too.

[hosepipe]

AAAH!... smoking tobacco is out... smoking pot is in..

Tobacco bad for lungs, pot good for lungs...

I got it....

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Who’s the idiot makes up these rules?..
Congress re-elected Boehner and McConnell....
Must be republicans..

[a fool in paradise]

Did tobacco get banned by registered vote?

http://www.smokefreecolorado.org/main.html

In 2006, Colorado’s Clean Indoor Air Act went into effect, limiting smoking in many work and public places – including restaurants and bars. Since then, we’ve come a long way in protecting the health of people statewide. Millions of Coloradans are now free from the dangers of tobacco smoke at work. And today over 100,000 fewer people smoke cigarettes.

http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/ordinance/ordinance_index.php
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Local Smoking Restrictions Compared to the State Law

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2015 chart of Colorado communities that stengthened their no-smoking laws,
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Local laws stronger than the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act receive 5 points
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