It's official: Governor makes marijuana legal in Colorado

On Monday, Colorado become the second state to legalize recreational marijuana use for adults. Washington also voted to legalize pot this November, and 18 states have decriminalized the drug.?

By Dan Whitcomb,?Reuters / December 10, 2012

People attending an Amendment 64 watch party celebrate after a local television station announced the marijuana amendment's passage in Denver on Nov. 6. Using marijuana for recreational use is now effectively legal in Colorado. Gov. John Hickenlooper declared a voter-approved marijuana legalization amendment as part of the state constitution on Monday.

Brennan Linsley/AP/File

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Pot smokers formally gained the right to light up in?Colorado?on Monday as Governor?John Hickenlooper?signed into effect a controversial ballot measure legalizing marijuana for adult recreational use in what proponents hailed as a "historic day."

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Hickenlooper's signature, largely a formality, made?Colorado?the second U.S. state after?Washington?to legalize recreational pot use, and put it on a possible collision course with the?federal government?- which calls marijuana an illegal drug.

"Voters were loud and clear on Election Day," Hickenlooper said in a statement released by his office. "We will begin working immediately with the?General Assembly?and state agencies to implement?Amendment 64."

The ballot measure, approved by a margin of 55 percent to 45 percent, amends?Colorado's constitution to legalize the personal use and possession of up to an ounce (28 grams) of pot by adults 21 and over. It also allows users to grow up to six plants at home.

Hickenlooper, a Democrat who had opposed the amendment but said he would respect the will of voters, had been required by law to issue the executive order, or "official declaration of the vote," within 30 days of certification by?Colorado's secretary of state on Dec. 6.

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