Editing Colorado (section)

====Medicinal use====

On November 7, 2000, 54% of Colorado voters passed Amendment 20, which amends the Colorado State constitution to allow the [[medical use of cannabis|medical use of marijuana]].<ref name="norml-co">{{cite web
 |url=http://norml.com/index.cfm?Group_ID=3391
 |title=Active State Medical Marijuana Programs—NORML
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 |access-date=June 4, 2008
|url-status=dead
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503160619/http://norml.com/index.cfm?Group_ID=3391
 |archive-date=May 3, 2008
}}</ref> A patient's medical use of marijuana, within the following limits, is lawful:
* (I) No more than {{convert|2|oz}} of a usable form of marijuana; and
* (II) No more than twelve marijuana plants, with six or fewer being mature, flowering plants that are producing a usable form of marijuana.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nationalfamilies.org/guide/colorado20-full.html |title=Full Text of Colorado Amendment 20—Medical Use of Marijuana 2000 |website=Nationalfamilies.org |access-date=April 1, 2016 |archive-date=April 12, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412014416/http://www.nationalfamilies.org/guide/colorado20-full.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Currently, Colorado has listed "eight medical conditions for which patients can use marijuana—cancer, glaucoma, HIV/AIDS, muscle spasms, seizures, severe pain, severe nausea and cachexia, or dramatic weight loss and muscle atrophy".<ref name=Young>{{Citation |last=Young |first=Saundra |date=August 7, 2013 |title=Marijuana stops child's severe seizures |publisher=[[CNN]] |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/07/health/charlotte-child-medical-marijuana/ |access-date=January 1, 2014}}</ref> While governor, [[John Hickenlooper]] allocated about half of the state's $13&nbsp;million "Medical Marijuana Program Cash Fund"<ref name=MMPCF>{{Citation |year=2014 |title=Colorado laws about Medical Marijuana |publisher=Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment |url=http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CDPHE-CHEIS/CBON/1251593017076 |access-date=January 1, 2014 |archive-date=January 4, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104212929/http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/CDPHE-CHEIS/CBON/1251593017076 |url-status=dead }} Several links are found, including .PDF documents to download.</ref> to medical research in the 2014 budget.<ref name=Markus>{{Citation |last=Markus |first=Ben |date=November 26, 2013 |title=Colorado to spend millions researching medical marijuana benefits |publisher=[[Colorado Public Radio]] |url=https://www.cpr.org/news/story/colorado-spend-millions-researching-medical-marijuana-benefits |access-date=January 1, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108235138/https://www.cpr.org/news/story/colorado-spend-millions-researching-medical-marijuana-benefits |archive-date=January 8, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> By 2018, the Medical Marijuana Program Cash Fund was the "largest pool of pot money in the state" and was used to fund programs including research into pediatric applications for controlling autism symptoms.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2018/12/30/colorado-marijuana-tax-cash-fund-general-assembly/|title=Almost half of Colorado's marijuana money can go wherever lawmakers wish|date=December 30, 2018|work=The Denver Post|location=[[Denver]]|access-date=November 11, 2020}}</ref>