Colorado Springs retail marijuana ban fails, according to final unofficial election results
Colorado Springs residents appear to have rejected a ballot question that sought to more permanently ban recreational marijuana sales in the city, according to updated election results from the El Paso County Clerk & Recorder's Office Thursday night.
Final unofficial results updated at 8:23 p.m. on Thursday showed the City Council-backed Question 2D, which proposes amending the city charter to prohibit recreational marijuana establishments in Colorado Springs, was failing, 49.4% to 50.6%.
In total, 387,297 ballots have been counted for just under 78% voter turnout, according to clerk's data.
Conversely, the competing resident-backed Question 300, which asks voters to authorize the city's roughly 90 existing medical marijuana shops to also opt into selling retail cannabis products, continued to pass Thursday by a vote of 54.7% to 45.3%.
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