Ballot Title Setting Board
2011-2012

The title as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

An amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning marijuana, and, in connection therewith, providing for the regulation of marijuana; permitting a person twenty-one years of age or older to consume or possess limited amounts of marijuana; providing for the licensing of cultivation facilities, product manufacturing facilities, testing facilities, and retail stores; permitting local governments to regulate or prohibit such facilities; permitting the general assembly to enact an excise tax to be levied upon wholesale sales of marijuana; and requiring that the first $40 million in revenue raised annually by such tax be credited to the public school capital construction assistance fund.

The ballot title and submission clause as designated and fixed by the Board is as follows:

Shall there be an amendment to the Colorado constitution concerning marijuana, and, in connection therewith, providing for the regulation of marijuana; permitting a person twenty-one years of age or older to consume or possess limited amounts of marijuana; providing for the licensing of cultivation facilities, product manufacturing facilities, testing facilities, and retail stores; permitting local governments to regulate or prohibit such facilities; permitting the general assembly to enact an excise tax to be levied upon wholesale sales of marijuana; and requiring that the first $40 million in revenue raised annually by such tax be credited to the public school capital construction assistance fund?

Hearing June 15, 2011

Single subject approved; staff draft amended; titles set.
Hearing adjourned 4:43 PM

Hearing July 6, 2011

Motion for Rehearing granted in part to the extent Board amended titles; denied in all other respects.
Hearing adjourned 2:59 PM

Hearing July 20, 2011

Petition for Rehearing dismissed on the basis that the Board lacks jurisdiction.
Hearing adjourned 11:00 PM

* Unofficially captioned “Use and Regulation of Marijuana” by legislative staff for tracking purposes. Such caption is not part of the titles set by the Board.