Colorado Springs will send out ballots for its April municipal election without a question about overturning legalized recreational pot sales after courts invalidated the ballot measure.

In November, 54 percent of Colorado Springs voters voted to allow existing medical dispensaries to sell recreational marijuana within city limits. But following that vote, the Colorado Springs city council voted 7-2 in January to put the issue back on the spring ballot, with Councilmembers Nancy Henjum and Yolanda Avila voting against it.

Colorado Springs agreed Thursday to remove the question repealing the recreational marijuana rules for the city after El Paso County District Court ordered they "take all actions necessary" to drop the question.

The city said it would follow the latest court order that the referred ballot measure should not be on the April ballot.