Colorado Springs voters will once again decide this spring whether recreational marijuana sales should be permitted in the state’s second-largest city — less than five months after they voted in favor of such sales.

Question 300, allows existing medical dispensaries to apply for a retail cannabis license, and was passed by voters back in November.

The Colorado Springs City Council voted 7-2 to put forth a ballot question about the sale of recreational marijuana in the upcoming municipal election.

The revamped proposal, filed Tuesday at the state Division of Elections by the Smart & Safe Florida committee, would go on the 2026 ballot. It seeks to address a number of issues raised by Gov. Ron DeSantis, who led a drive to defeat last year's proposed constitutional amendment.

Recreational marijuana may be making its way back to Florida voters in 2026, following a near-miss in 2024. The push to legalize marijuana for adults 21 and over in the state is gaining momentum, but there are several hurdles before it can become law.

News5's Brett Forrest sits down with COS City Councilmember Dave Donelson about the decision to reintroduce recreational marijuana on the ballot in April 2025, after voters approved to legalize it recreationally in November 2024.

Four months after City Council President pro tem Lynette Crow-Iverson said in September that City Council was “not a democracy,” the nine-member governing body for Colorado’s second-largest city was gearing up for another potential fight over just how democracy works.