If you've come to the conclusion that Colorado voters created an unintended fraud when they approved the "medical" marijuana scam, just wait until voters approve Amendment 64. This latest con job attempts to legalize possession, use, and growing of pot for adults, and ultimately wants to tax it like alcohol.

As if consuming alcohol is some kind of benign activity never subject to abuse, law enforcement resources, highway mayhem, or assorted medical conditions. But perhaps that's not the worst part of this citizen-initiated hoax.

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Boulder is recognized as one of the healthiest cities in the United States, if not the world. A recent Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index studied over 350,000 Americans who were asked about their overall attitudes about their jobs, physical and financial health, as well as the specific places they live. Boulder ranked first in the category of overall well-being when measured against 162 large and medium-sized cities. That`s hardly surprising when you consider that over 53,000 folks recently participated in the Bolder Boulder and hiked and biked and climbed and hopped and skipped and jumped the entire Memorial Day weekend.

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