Page 6 - Amendment 64 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

$50 for an eighth of an ounce. colorado residents can buy up to an ounce. out of state residents can by a quarter ounce. very big day. very big turnout. >> i profess i'm not a big pot fan, but i find this fascinating. last hour, you mentioned the use of coupons, which was really surprising. now i'm wondering, is it possible other stores give out free samples? >> no one is giving out free samples and my understanding of the law in colorado is you can't do that. there are several things you can't do. obviously, you can't drive under the influence, you can't give it to someone else or resell it t...

It really wouldn't matter. the city council members here made a surprise move last night deciding to reverse course on banning marijuana where other people could see. they lobbied to loosen the rules. denver's police chief, robert white, even said the ban would be difficult for officers to enforce and it would be the defendant's lowest priority. one council member said that because the people of colorado passed amendment 64 which made recreational pat legal here, it would be against the will of the people to ban it. >> i also at the same time don't think that it should be wrong for somebody to...

>> first customer of the night is a businessman staying at a hotel from out of town. he's order an eighth of an ounce of marijuana he's going to pay $45 and a $5 delivery surcharge. last year colorado voters pass amendment 64. retail stores won't go online until january 2014, but under state law anyone in colorado can possess small amounts of marijuana. eric says this means colorado is in a gray area and he thinks this makes his business legal. it's fro e probably not, but so far he says the police haven't bothered him. to hedge his bets, he advertises the payment is a so-called donation, make...

Confidential. >> reporter: weed in hand, dr. dre on the radio, and eric is on his way. the first customer of the night is a businessman from out of town, staying at a hotel. he ordered an eighth of an ounce of marijuana, will pay $45 for that and a $5 delivery surcharge. last year colorado voters passed amendment 64, making recreational use of marijuana legal. retail stores won't go online until january 2014, but under state law, anyone in colorado can possess small amounts of marijuana. eric says this means colorado is in a gray area and he thinks it makes his business legal. he says the poli...

They know they're committing a federal crime. so every single person is here for one reason, it's because we believe that marijuana prohibition is immoral and that we have to do something about that. >> jim spellman joins us from denver now. so, jim, isle come coal any closer to figuring out how its new state laws will work with federal laws which of course still outlaw marijuana? >> no. in a word, no. last fall after voters voted for amendment 64, the governor had a phone call with attorney general eric holder and wrote him a letter asking for some sort of clarity on this. they still have not...