The City of Denver looks like it will be asking voters to approve a 5 percent tax on recreational marijuana sales if/when the shops open for business next year.
Council voted last night on a proposal that sets an initial 5 percent tax that could be lowered to 3.5 percent or raised to as high as 15 percent. Council still has a few more steps to go through before the measure would be approved. Even then, Colorado law requires tax measures to go before voters for approval.

State Rep. Rory Ellinger, a Democrat from University City, plans to introduce legislation next session to legalize pot in the state, modeled after the successful reform effort in Colorado. It will definitely be a long shot here, but this will be the first time a lawmaker in Missouri has introduced a proposal of this nature.
“I expect there will be a lot of good people that feel marijuana is wrong, that it leads down a path of worse drugs and trouble and so on,” he tells Daily RFT. “I respect their opinion, but I think that it can all be disputed.”
Sam Levin with the Riverfront Times has the full, local angle.