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No penalty for marijuana election violations
    #18569482 - 07/17/13 12:05 AM (10 years, 9 months ago)

FORT COLLINS, Colo.—An independent investigator ruled that marijuana advocates violated the Fort Collins election code during their 2012 campaign to repeal a municipal ban on medical marijuana businesses, but they did not violate state laws and, therefore, there are no penalties.

City Councilman Wade Troxell filed a campaign finance complaint with the city accusing pro-marijuana political committees Sensible Colorado and the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol of violating municipal election codes by failing to register with the Fort Collins City Clerk's Office as political committees. Both organizations were properly registered with the state as required by state law.

"If the city pursues enforcement of the issue committee provisions of its code, it may expose itself to substantial challenge and possibly liability," Scott Krob, the Greenwood Village lawyer hired to investigate the complaint, cautioned in a report to the city.

According to the Fort Collins Coloradoan ( http://tinyurl.com/nld6a9u), violations of Fort Collins' city code could result in misdemeanor charges punishable by fine or imprisonment.

The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol spearheaded the Amendment 64 campaign to legalize recreational marijuana in Colorado, and Sensible Colorado has been active in campaigns to relax marijuana laws in the state since 2004.

The Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol supplied signs urging yes votes on marijuana questions in November. The Organization of Cannabis Professionals said it spent about $1,000 on the signs in a report to the city clerk. Sensible Colorado helped the Organization of Cannabis Professionals coordinate phone banks that called voters asking for support of the statewide and local ballot issues expanding access to legal marijuana, but the expenses were not reported in its city campaign finance records.

Sensible Colorado's executive director, Brian Vicente, disagreed with the investigator's ruling.

"Sensible Colorado acted in full compliance with all state and local laws," he said. "Our minimal efforts ... were entirely volunteer actions and incurred no expense, whatsoever. It is absurd that the investigator believes there is probable cause that the organization incurred expenses without any actual evidence of expenses incurred."

A review of complaints on file with the Colorado Secretary of State's Office showed Sensible Colorado has not been the subject of any campaign finance complaints at the state level.

Read more: No penalty for marijuana election violations - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/marijuana/ci_23668759/no-penalty-marijuana-election-violations#ixzz2ZHQqrzXB

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