{"id":41231,"date":"2022-04-06T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T21:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ignacio-voters-reject-marijuana-sales\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T02:59:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T08:59:48","slug":"ignacio-voters-reject-marijuana-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ignacio-voters-reject-marijuana-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignacio voters reject marijuana sales"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=bc991cd4-2adf-427a-b52a-7aa8eb5768b3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1752\" height=\"1284\" alt=\"Ignacio voters on Tuesday defeated a ballot measure that would have allowed recreational and medical marijuana sales in town limits. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Ignacio voters on Tuesday defeated a ballot measure that would have allowed recreational and medical marijuana sales in town limits. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald file)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Retail and medical marijuana sales will remain banned in Ignacio town limits.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, 112 town residents cast votes in the municipal election asking for voters to approve the sales and a $10 transaction fee on each sale.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-two voters cast no votes on the retail marijuana question, with 49 saying yes.<\/p>\n<p>For medical marijuana sales, there were 60 no votes and 51 yes votes.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the vote on marijuana sales, there was a contested election for three town board seats, while Clark Craig was the only candidate for mayor and will be taking over for longtime mayor Stella Cox.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have made a lot of progress in the last few years,\u201d said Craig, who has served on the town planning commission. He also is president of the Ignacio Chamber of Commerce and a board member of the Ignacio Community Library.<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife, Sharon Craig, who has served as a town trustee for four years, operate Meadow Brook Mobile Home Park in Ignacio.<\/p>\n<p>Cox \u201chas done a wonderful job\u201d as mayor, Clark Craig said.<\/p>\n<p>The four candidates for three town board seats were incumbents Sharon Craig and Thomas Atencio, and newcomers Jeremy Schulz and Joseph Atencio.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Atencio said he wants to continue his work on the board \u201cin hopes of helping our families that live here today to have a better and easier life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schulz is a former public works director for the town, and Joseph Atencio is a lifelong resident who has experience in construction and infrastructure management.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Atencio was elected to the board with 86 votes, Schulz garnered 80, and Thomas Atencio had 67 votes, with Sharon Craig not winning re-election.<\/p>\n<p>The new board members and mayor are scheduled to be sworn in at the regular Ignacio Town Board meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents elect three town trustees and a mayor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[266,28,1235,308,135,1611,1610],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-41231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-election","tag-headlines","tag-ignacio","tag-local-elections","tag-marijuana","tag-medical-marijuana","tag-recreational-marijuana"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84899,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41231\/revisions\/84899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41231"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=41231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}