The Colorado Independent

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

Law

In the weeds: Fed response to Colorado vote to legalize marijuana tough to predict

By | 10.02.12 | 4:03 pm

Washington and Oregon both have measures similar to Colorado’s Amendment 64 on the ballot this year. It is unknown how the federal government will respond if any or all of them pass. The feds could respect the decision of voters, they could try to block implementation of some parts of the law, or they could shut down dispensaries and arrest people involved in the wholesale and retail ends of the business.

Marijuana in Colorado: From the black market to the corner store

By | 09.25.12 | 5:39 pm

There is no question that keeping marijuana illegal comes at a price. There are no easy answers when it comes to how high that price is, though.

Anti-choice tactic revealed: increase the cost of abortions in order to reduce the number

By | 09.21.12 | 10:30 am

Anti-abortion restrictions should be designed to raise “the costs” of abortions in order to discourage women from obtaining them, a prominent scholar for a leading anti-abortion group told an audience of social conservative activists in Washington last weekend.

Video of Michigan traffic stop leads to concerns about HIV discrimination

By | 09.21.12 | 8:37 am

LANSING, Mich. — A Dearborn, Mich., police officer was caught on tape telling a man and a woman that he was issuing them traffic and marijuana possession tickets because he was “aggravated” that the woman failed to disclose her HIV-positive status before he searched the couple’s car. The incident has raised allegations of discrimination and violations of civil rights.

Future shock: What happens if Colorado legalizes pot?

By | 09.20.12 | 1:52 pm

If Amendment 64 passes, it will become almost immediately legal under Colorado law for adults to possess, grow, consume and give away up to an ounce of marijuana. It may take more than a year, however, before adults can purchase marijuana legally in a store.

Coerced-abortion laws part of new pro-life strategy

By | 08.30.12 | 9:55 am

On a Friday morning in September 2005, 22-year-old Brittany Wilson sat in a Planned Parenthood clinic a mile away from her home in Sioux Falls, S.D., and bawled her eyes out. Ten days before, she had called the clinic to schedule an abortion. Three days before her appointment, she had called back to listen to some state-mandated information about the risks of abortion and her legal rights. And moments before, she had driven to the clinic alone and paid $447. But she was crying, she would later say, because she did not want this abortion.

‘No Personhood’ Colorado campaign cautions against big government

By | 08.24.12 | 11:15 am

DENVER– A rally hosted here Thursday on the steps of the capitol by this year’s “No Personhood Campaign” featured speakers who decried government intervention into citizens’ private lives and admonished overreaching political activists who would tap the organs of the state to solve perceived social ills.

Coloradans favor banning assault weapons, high-capacity magazines

By | 08.09.12 | 12:00 pm

Poll results released late Wednesday by Public Policy Polling reported Colorado voters favor banning assault weapons, with 58 percent supporting a ban and 35 percent opposing. Those survey results are supported by results released the same day by Quinnipiac University, The New York Times and CBS, which reported that 58 percent of likely Colorado voters also favor a national ban on high-capacity clips and magazines.

Aurora shooting elicits calls for tighter gun control

By | 08.07.12 | 7:12 am

While many politicians are playing it safe, saying it is too soon to talk about gun laws or saying they don’t want to “politicize” the Colorado and now Wisconsin shootings, Democratic U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette and Ed Perlmutter have been outspoken about their desire for more stringent regulation.

Gessler’s proposed changes to election rules draw heated objections

By | 07.26.12 | 6:06 am

Over the course of a five-hour rulemaking hearing Monday, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler probably got the message that a lot of people are unhappy with proposed rules that would stop county clerks from mailing ballots to inactive voters in some elections, change the way canvass boards are selected and give county clerks more power to determine how much access election watchers have.

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