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68th annual Leadville Ski Joring competition in Colorado

68th annual Leadville Ski Joring competition in Colorado

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Skijoring, which has its origins as a competitive sport in Scandinavia, has been adapted over the years to include a team made up of a rider and skier who must navigate jumps, slalom gates, and the spearing of rings for points. Leadville, Colorado, with an elevation of 10,152 feet (3,094 m), the highest incorporated city in North America, has been hosting skijoring competitions since 1949.

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Aftermath of Colorado’s Planned Parenthood shooting

Aftermath of Colorado’s Planned Parenthood shooting

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A gunman opened fire inside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, engaging in gun battles with authorities during an hourslong standoff that killed three people and wounded nine others, officials said. The suspect was arrested Friday and identified as Robert Lewis Dear of North Carolina. –Tribune wire reports

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Sept. 17 Photo Brief: Occupy Wall Street anniversary, Mount Sinabung, flooding in Colorado

Sept. 17 Photo Brief: Occupy Wall Street anniversary, Mount Sinabung, flooding in Colorado

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Activists demonstrate during the second anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Mount Sinabung spews rocks and red-hot ash, flooding in Colorado continues and more in today’s daily brief.
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Marijuana makes strides toward legalization as 4/20 celebrated

Marijuana makes strides toward legalization as 4/20 celebrated

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Today, April 20 or 4/20, is embraced by marijuana smokers nationwide as a celebration of cannabis culture. By and large, observance has remained underground given pot’s classification as an illegal substance by federal law. This year, though, things have changed, with voters in Colorado and Washington deciding in 2012 to decriminalize marijuana within state borders.

In Maryland, lawmakers opted not to decriminalize pot, but the General Assembly authorized a medical marijuana program. In recent years, Baltimore prosecutors have been easing up on marijuana possession penalties. (For contrast’s sake, D.C.’s first medical marijuana dispensary is set to open this month.)

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Marijuana 2012: Puffing, prescribing and prosecuting pot in print

Marijuana 2012: Puffing, prescribing and prosecuting pot in print

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A state ballot measure legalizing marijuana for recreational use passed Nov. 6 in both Colorado and Washington state, in what might be the biggest statement of the 2012 Election aside from President Obama’s re-election and same-sex marriage.

In Colorado, the new amendment would allow adults 21 and older to legally purchase one ounce of marijuana as soon as the end of the month, while in Washington voters approved the selling and taxing of small amounts of marijuana-related products to adults beginning Dec. 6. A similar initiative was rejected in Oregon.

Despite opposing the measure himself, Colorado’s governor John Hickenlooper released a statement Tuesday night saying that “This will be a complicated process, but we intend to follow through. That said, federal law still says marijuana is an illegal drug so don’t break out the Cheetos or gold fish too quickly.” In a KUOW radio interview Nov. 7, Washington governor Chris Gregoire also expressed concern about federal reactions saying that “The jury is out on what happens. Meanwhile, my job as governor is to do what the people of the state of Washington have said they want done.”

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