Colorado Springs residents appear to have rejected a ballot question that sought to more permanently ban recreational marijuana sales in the city, according to updated election results from the El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Thursday night.

Many of you have asked what the passage of Question 300 means for the future of recreational marijuana. Most dispensaries said they're just as confused.

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As Colorado Springs voters were approving ballot questions that propose both banning recreational marijuana establishments and authorizing retail cannabis sales locally, pro-campaign representatives and city officials seemed to offer competing interpretations of which new law,

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - The future of marijuana sales in Colorado Springs hangs by a razor-thin margin. Two initiatives on the ballot, question 2-D and question 300, are both leaning in favor of allowing recreational sales in the city -- but only by a handful of votes.

Initially, both 2D and Question 300, which aimed to approve the sale of recreational marijuana in the city's limits, appeared to pass.

Over the weekend, as more votes are being counted by the El Paso County clerk and recorder’s office, the dueling ballot questions about marijuana in Colorado Springs saw a shift, with more votes against prohibiting retail marijuana.

Ballot Issue 2D amends the city charter to ban retail marijuana businesses while Ballot Question 300 allows existing medical marijuana shops to apply for a recreational marijuana license in the city.