Voters in Lamar approved a two-part November voting question to legalize marijuana sales in Lamar. Both questions 2A and 2B must be passed in order for the city to join other legally-selling communities. The vote of 2A was 1,102 votes to 902 votes, and the bill set the level of cannabis sales tax. 2B passed 1,078 votes to 917, allowing the actual sale of various forms of cannabis, including plant cultivation, manufacturing, and testing. The Lamar City Council has no position on the voting initiative and set up voting issues. If 2A fails to pass the tax, 2B, allowing the actual sale of cannabis will have no practical meaning, and the ten-year city ban will continue to exist. Las Animas is the closest town to Lamar, where sales have been legalized in the past two years. In the November 2012 general election, the state voted Proposition 64 to approve the sale of marijuana.

Don't expect to see shops all over the city in the next few weeks. When asked during the October Candidate/Cannabis Forum when the sales would start if the vote passed, Mayor Kirk Crespin estimated that it would take about a year. "The city council will begin to formulate regulations to determine how many stores can be licensed, we have to consider zoning issues, and we also need to determine how to grant permission applications," he responded.

Question 2A asks whether Lamar’s tax will be increased by $450,000 in the first fiscal year based on cannabis sales. The tax will be used in the city’s general fund to pay for government expenditures approved by the Lamar City Council. Similarly, if this question fails, legal sales will be meaningless.

One aspect of voter approval is based on the overall financial benefit to the entire community, based on additional sales tax revenue. It has been noted that this area of ​​Colorado receives traffic from neighboring states such as Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, and entertainment sales in these states are still illegal. Oklahoma allows the sale of medical marijuana, but not the sale of recreational marijuana, but this question appeared in the state's vote this year. Although customers can legally purchase marijuana in Colorado, it is still illegal to ship drugs out of the state.

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