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Medical Marijuana Helping Budget Deficit, Colorado Gov. Says

Gov. Bill Ritter is using $9 million from medical marijuana registrations to help the state meet a $60 million fiscal emergency. The state anticipates ending the year with 150,000 applicants for medical marijuana cards, up from 41,000 in 2009.www.huffi…

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Colorado Gives Marijuana Dispensaries Legal Status

Colorado Governor Bill Ritter on Monday signed legislation that will regulate the state’s medical marijuana dispensaries through a system of local and state licenses, but will still allow individual localities to ban dispensaries. State officials estimate that about half of the dispensaries currently operating will be able to comply with the new r

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Colorado AG rules medical marijuana can be taxed

Governor Bill Ritter (D) asked Colorado Attorney General John Suthers (R) for a legal opinion as to whether medical marijuana could be taxed. Yesterday, AG Suthers replied that it could indeed be taxed, and the governor has acted quickly, stating that medical marijuana dispensaries will need to get retail licences and start paying sales taxes.

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