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RESOLUTION NO.
(Series of 1974)
WHEREAS, the City Council has been apprised of the
contemporary problems created by the criminalization of the
use and possession of small amounts of marijuana, especially
with the youth in the Aspen Community and nationwide, and
WHEREAS, the Aspen City Council wishes to voice its
opinion and adopt the stance of the American Bar Association,
the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, the
National Council of Churches, and many other organizations
with respect to the decriminalization of such use and
possession, and
WHEREAS, the Aspen City Council wishes, as a caveat to
any such expression of its opinion, to declare that it does
not endorse the use or sale of marijuana or encourage any
such illegal activity, now
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ASPEN, COLORADO:
1. That it does recommend and encourage the state
authorities to (1) eliminate all criminal laws punishing
the possessions of small amounts of marijuana, (2) treat the
casual distribution of small amounts of marijuana not for
profit as simple possession, and (3) establish regulatory
schemes governing the distribution of marijuana.
2. That the position here taken not be interpreted as
an endorsement of any activity, either in Aspen or elsewhere,
which is at present an illegal activity, with respect to
both the use, possession or distribution of marijuana, but
rather that by this resolution the Council merely encourages
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the amendment of the existent criminal legislation to remove
from the use, possession and distribution of small amounts of
marijuana the onus of criminal sanction and the attendant
consequences, which,
activity.
I, Lorraine Graves,
it is felt, are not warranted by such
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do hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of that
Resolution adopted by the Aspen City Council at its meeting
, 1974.
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