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Town HallColorado governor outlines $60M in budget cuts, including marijuana fundsCanadianBusiness.comBill Ritter is using money from medical marijuana registrations to help the state meet a $60 million budget shortfall. The governor is also cutting fu…

Angered by a pair of bills aiming at regulating the state’s burgeoning medical marijuana industry just signed into law by Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter (D), one group of medical marijuana advocates has announced plans to get a marijuana legalization initiative on the ballot in 2012. But there is already another legalization initiative filed with state [...]

Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law today two bills regulating and legitimizing the state’s medical-marijuana industry. “The companion measures I signed today strike a delicate balance between protecting public safety and respecting the will of the voters,” Ritter said in a statement. read more

Colorado — Gov. Bill Ritter, in his last State of the State address on Thursday, urged lawmakers to regulate medical marijuana, which is legal in Colorado. This was met with profane resistance from a pro-pot lawyer — saying lawmakers should, in essence, be kissing the pot advocates` cheeks, and not the ones on their faces. [...]