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DENVER — Colorado already is being sued by two neighboring states for legalizing marijuana. Now, the state faces groundbreaking lawsuits from its own residents, who are asking a federal judge to order the new recreational industry to close.
The owners of a mountain hotel and a southern Colorado horse farm argue in a pair of lawsuits filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Denver that the 2012 marijuana-legalization measure has hurt their property and that the marijuana industry is stinky and attracts unsavory visitors.
The lawsuits are the first in any state that has legalized recreational or medical marijuana in which its own residents are appealing to the federal government to block pot laws.
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Also suing is the owner of a Holiday Inn, who argues that a pot shop opening nearby is keeping away families.
"Marijuana businesses make bad neighbors," the lawsuit says. "They drive away legitimate businesses' customers, emit pungent, foul odors, attract undesirable visitors, increase criminal activity, increase traffic, and reduce property values."
DENVER — Colorado already is being sued by two neighboring states for legalizing marijuana. Now, the state faces groundbreaking lawsuits from its own residents, who are asking a federal judge to order the new recreational industry to close.
By residents, you mean "The owners of a mountain hotel and a southern Colorado horse farm."
Oh the horror. Carry on. Nothing to see here. Colorado's doing just fine.
DENVER — Colorado already is being sued by two neighboring states for legalizing marijuana. Now, the state faces groundbreaking lawsuits from its own residents, who are asking a federal judge to order the new recreational industry to close.
The owners of a mountain hotel and a southern Colorado horse farm argue in a pair of lawsuits filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Denver that the 2012 marijuana-legalization measure has hurt their property and that the marijuana industry is stinky and attracts unsavory visitors.
The lawsuits are the first in any state that has legalized recreational or medical marijuana in which its own residents are appealing to the federal government to block pot laws.
.
.
Also suing is the owner of a Holiday Inn, who argues that a pot shop opening nearby is keeping away families.
"Marijuana businesses make bad neighbors," the lawsuit says. "They drive away legitimate businesses' customers, emit pungent, foul odors, attract undesirable visitors, increase criminal activity, increase traffic, and reduce property values."
DENVER — Colorado already is being sued by two neighboring states for legalizing marijuana. Now, the state faces groundbreaking lawsuits from its own residents, who are asking a federal judge to order the new recreational industry to close.
The owners of a mountain hotel and a southern Colorado horse farm argue in a pair of lawsuits filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Denver that the 2012 marijuana-legalization measure has hurt their property and that the marijuana industry is stinky and attracts unsavory visitors.
The lawsuits are the first in any state that has legalized recreational or medical marijuana in which its own residents are appealing to the federal government to block pot laws.
.
.
Also suing is the owner of a Holiday Inn, who argues that a pot shop opening nearby is keeping away families.
"Marijuana businesses make bad neighbors," the lawsuit says. "They drive away legitimate businesses' customers, emit pungent, foul odors, attract undesirable visitors, increase criminal activity, increase traffic, and reduce property values."
Colorado residents (myself included) voted to allow retail pot.
Colorado residents (myself included) have no issue with retail pot, and appreciate the revenue.
Just because some hotel or farm wants to shutdown pot, doesn't mean opinion has shifted.
Finn_Jarber is on a one man crusade against pot. It doesn't matter that the majority of residents of the state voted to legalize it, Or that the majority of Americans want it legalized, by gosh if Finn_Jarber can just misrepresent it enough it will go away.
And thats what occurs over and over, misrepresentations of reality.
I live in the Denver area. There are at least 4 marijuana dispensaries within a few blocks of my house in a family-oriented neighborhood. So far the zombie apocalypse hasn't started here.
This is much ado about nothing.
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