According to the poll, the majority of Denver voters also believe that alcohol causes more problems in the city than weed. Of those polled, 55% believed booze causes more problems, 26% believed both cause the same amount of problems, and only 13% believed marijuana causes more problems.
“I enjoy drinking a beer but I don’t feel like I should always have to do it sitting in my home,” Mason Tvert, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, which spearheaded the effort to legalize pot in 2012 told Time. “And people who are visiting from out of town are able to purchase marijuana but are not able to consume it legally.”
State laws limit indoor smoking, so venues would likely have to comply with having outdoor, but enclosed areas. The option would also only be available to venues which are for guests who are 21 and over.
This would boost marijuana tourism, as visitors are currently left only being able to smoke their weed legally in certain hotels, as you cannot smoke “openly and publicly” under Colorado law.
In order for this proposed measure to appear on November’s ballot, activists must collect approximately 5,000 signatures from registered Denver voters by August.
"It would be ridiculous to limit alcohol consumption only to people’s homes," noted Tvert, who is spearheading the campaign. "So why must marijuana use be limited in such a fashion? There’s no rational reason to treat marijuana consumers so differently."
