The Bay Citizen: Why Colorado Could Legalize Marijuana Before California

A well-organized campaign to tax and regulate marijuana in Colorado may be sucking away campaign cash from the scattered efforts to put a legalization measure on the 2012 ballot in California. 

“What's missing still are the large donors,” Doug Linney, a consultant for the Coalition for Cannabis Policy Reform, which is struggling to find backers for one of two initiative efforts in California. “Some of the donors have been thinking that it’s Colorado’s year.”

In Colorado, signature gatherers have already hit the streets to get the Regulate Like Marijuana Like Alcohol Act on the 2012 ballot. Political consultants say that it costs about $5 million to pass a statewide measure in Colorado, half of what it costs in California.

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