yeaa for colorado

[bosephus]

 
  i know that this isnt going to be recieved well here .  but the good people of colorado did something today that needs done everywhere in my opinion .
they legalized  recreational pot !

 gee..i cant wait to see all the ranting and raving this causes

[sr sawyer]

Yeah, showed their true BLUE color in more ways than one.
 
Ken

[Shu]

I don't drink or use drugs and I don't have any judgement for people who do. I am in favor of medicinal marijuana. I don't see much difference in alcohol or marijuana use. It is a decision that adults make.With great freedom comes great responsibility.

[JonnyReb]

 Keep in mind, that those who use marijuana can't have possession of firearms, by federal law. If your a gun owner, consider this before "signing up" for a pot card or however they designate you able to toke up. These states allowing pot usage are kinda circumventing federal law too, will be interesting to see how this plays out.  J

[SHOOTALL]

the only reason i would support legal pot ( other than true medical use) is because it has become a tax money drain and it seems an industry sprouted up on both sides of the issue . those who sell it get rich and those who try to control it also get paid. and it seems to be a stalemate that has lasted 40+ years. you might say I support ending funding.

[magooch]

I've known people who used pot.  None of them turned out to be worth a pinch of *hit.  Most of them are dead.  Not a single one of them could hold down a job.  But they seemed quite content to sit there in their little cloud of smoke.  I guess freedom means you're free to be dumb.

[guzzijohn]

Quote from magooch:
"I've known people who used pot.  None of them turned out to be worth a pinch of *hit.  Most of them are dead.  Not a single one of them could hold down a job.  But they seemed quite content to sit there in their little cloud of smoke.  I guess freedom means you're free to be dumb."


Intersting. My experience has been about the opposite. Below is a paste from a my response in a previous thread:

If that is the case there are other influences going on there than just smoking. I went to a state college in the 70s. I would guess 80%+ of the students smoked weed at that time and maybe half that group smoked daily. Many were 3.5+GPA. Many graduated in four years and many went on to graduate degrees. The debate team through those years was always one of the top in the nation and most of the team were daily smokers and occasionally did LSD, mushrooms and speed let alone drinking. I have rarely seen where MJ was the only reason for someone not functioning well. Usually there was mental illness or some other emotional problem(s) that were the root cause,  the dope was just a symptom. My two cents worth with change.
GuzziJohn

[SHOOTALL]

well reality is some folks turn out smart and some dumb. pot has little to do with it in most cases .

[powderman]

http://www.wlky.com/news/money/Marijuana-legalization-passes-in-Colo-Wash/-/9365814/17304748/-/y91hmo/-/index.html
 
 
The people have spoken. Colo I'm surprised at, not with wash. POWDERMAN. 

[SHOOTALL]

people are tired of kids going to jail and money wasted .it's not so much support of pot it's like other police actions after years of loss and nothing to show for it people get tired of wasting American youth and money.

[mcbammer]

well reality is some folks turn out smart and some dumb. pot has little to do with it in most cases .

Ever  tried  working  along  side  a   lifelong  pothead?  Nothing  more  than  walking  zombies in  my   opinion.

[ironglow]

  As I posted in another thread..I really wish people would mature to the point where they don't need such psychological "crutches"..  But then, the modern world does have it's pressures..some can handle them, some can't.
  Then of course,  Aldous Huxley's "BRAVE NEW WORLD" did have it's SOMA.....
  http://www.shmoop.com/brave-new-world/drugs-alcohol-theme.html
 
  http://www.huxley.net/soma/somaquote.html
 
  Perhaps we could legalise everyone's favorite hallucinagen all over the country, that way farmers could raise whatever weed the psychologically weakest  prefer. Wheat fields and corn fields can be converted to pot fields..the stuff can sell so cheap, that folks can easily buy 10 pounds at a time.  Others can be cooking up concoctions on their kitchen stoves....  Then we can all walk around in a cloudy daze...still giggling..but wondering perhaps what we can eat.. and just who is going to grow, harvest and distribute the food..

[SHOOTALL]

well reality is some folks turn out smart and some dumb. pot has little to do with it in most cases .

Ever  tried  working  along  side  a   lifelong  pothead?  Nothing  more  than  walking  zombies in  my   opinion.

I have worked construction for 40 years , I have worked with drunks , pot heads , hard drug users , thiefs and murderers etc. To be honest I have seen pot smokers show up every day and work hard even run work and others as you decribe. I can also say the same about stright people.
Either way I'm tired of spending tax money on it. Up until the 1930's it was not a problem it was legal . And someone mentioned they had never heard of anyone doing well and smoking pot . Well the founding fathers did rather well 

[mcbammer]

well reality is some folks turn out smart and some dumb. pot has little to do with it in most cases .

Ever  tried  working  along  side  a   lifelong  pothead?  Nothing  more  than  walking  zombies in  my   opinion.

I have worked construction for 40 years , I have worked with drunks , pot heads , hard drug users , thiefs and murderers etc. To be honest I have seen pot smokers show up every day and work hard even run work and others as you decribe. I can also say the same about stright people.
Either way I'm tired of spending tax money on it. Up until the 1930's it was not a problem it was legal . And someone mentioned they had never heard of anyone doing well and smoking pot . Well the founding fathers did rather well 

I  agree  to  disagee . 

[Defoe]

whiskey is taxed, but moonshining is still going on because it's cheaper than the legal stuff.
The government will tax the dope so heavy that the black market will go right on because it'll be cheaper.   and, the dope dealers will also have the hard drugs that most MJ users like to have on hand for their parties.

[SHOOTALL]

well reality is some folks turn out smart and some dumb. pot has little to do with it in most cases .

Ever  tried  working  along  side  a   lifelong  pothead?  Nothing  more  than  walking  zombies in  my   opinion.

I have worked construction for 40 years , I have worked with drunks , pot heads , hard drug users , thiefs and murderers etc. To be honest I have seen pot smokers show up every day and work hard even run work and others as you decribe. I can also say the same about stright people.
Either way I'm tired of spending tax money on it. Up until the 1930's it was not a problem it was legal . And someone mentioned they had never heard of anyone doing well and smoking pot . Well the founding fathers did rather well 

I  agree  to  disagee .

It might just be the experince you had vs. what I have had over the years. Same can be said of drunks . To which my experince has been drunks are more dangerous. BTW I wish I never had to work with either or for that matter be around either.

[SHOOTALL]

whiskey is taxed, but moonshining is still going on because it's cheaper than the legal stuff.
The government will tax the dope so heavy that the black market will go right on because it'll be cheaper.   and, the dope dealers will also have the hard drugs that most MJ users like to have on hand for their parties.

In Va. I don't believe it is the tax or cost as there is better booze at cheaper prices. Some of the thoughts I have heard for its use , it don't have none of them chemicals the govt. makes um put in booze . It's our way of giving the govt. the finger , it taste better (than what ?) and it don't hurt you like store bought does  and on and on . As for making it , it's about tax free $$$$$$$$$ and a little excitement and getting away with something .

[Poopers]

I rarely drink and have never even tried any drugs. I hate being around those that are drunk or high ( have been exposed to this my entire life ).


My take on it is this: I think it should be regulated exactly the same as alcohol. Dont do it in public, dont operate machinery while doing it ect..


Really, I think making it legal wont increase the amount of people that do it. Weed is SO easily accessible that anyone interested in doing it ( even discreetly ) can easily try it. It sure will lighten the prison tax burden a bit.

[yellowtail3]

I think I'll fire up a Fatty

[two-blocked]

A part of  64 that most people miss is that the state is supposed to commence promoting  industrial hemp as an agricultural product for use in fabrics, rope, paper, foods and chemicals.  It's renewable and green!

[mcbammer]

Denver , will  be  mile  high  in more  ways than  one.

[D Fischer]

Shoot, just make all drugs legal, tax them like liquor and look away. I don't use drugs, did once though. Nothing real hard but drugs just the same. One thing for sure about drugs is that anyone that wants them can get them or already has them. No taxes are collected. huge amounts of money are spent to fight it and nothing changes. You use drugs, including alcohol, you and you alone are responsible for what you do. I suspect that they can be had in any town in the country if you meet the right people. When my wife and my son moved here, there were five people living in town year round, one was an alcoholic and drug user and they sold drugs out of our only store if they knew who you were and how you felt about it. 

[Anna]

I think I'll fire up a Fatty

LOL, you may as well but stay away from the refrigerator. And if anyone knocks at the door just tell them that Dave's not here.  Some of you will get that joke but others will still wonder about it .

[yellowtail3]

[SHOOTALL]

I think I'll fire up a Fatty

LOL, you may as well but stay away from the refrigerator. And if anyone knocks at the door just tell them that Dave's not here.  Some of you will get that joke but others will still wonder about it .in your picture you don't look like you are from that time "hey man Daves not here" 

[Conan The Librarian]

This needed to happen, and it's about time. This "war against drugs" is actually a war against society.
 
There are 55,000 people killed in the crime aspects of people bringing drugs into the US every year, a huge bureaucracy and police structure that is in the business of staying in business, a Mexican government that appears to oppose drug lords while happily profiting from the trade and not putting up any real barriers to drug traffickers, and a million arrests per year in the US for drug offenses.
 
Aside from being ineffective, the human cost is shocking.
 
Any word on what the feds are going to try to do? A lot of federal employees depend on the drug trade for their own living.

[Conan The Librarian]

As for the entertainment angle, I propose Count Floyd, the New York City TV vampire that was popular in the 80s. He did a song called Rastafarian Christmas that had lyrics including "...all they do is sing songs and smoke ganja so we all started yellin go away we don't wanja..." (sung in a faux Bela Lugosi vampire accent)

[yellowtail3]

This needed to happen, and it's about time. This "war against drugs" is actually a war against society.
 
There are 55,000 people killed in the crime aspects of people bringing drugs into the US every year, a huge bureaucracy and police structure that is in the business of staying in business, a Mexican government that appears to oppose drug lords while happily profiting from the trade and not putting up any real barriers to drug traffickers, and a million arrests per year in the US for drug offenses.
 
Aside from being ineffective, the human cost is shocking.
 
Any word on what the feds are going to try to do? A lot of federal employees depend on the drug trade for their own living.

Yep - rice bowls, fiefdoms, pensions, careers, self-justification, power - all of which have made it very, very hard to have a rational discussion about the War on (some) Drugs

[lakota]

We have a president who doesnt give a tinkers damn about State's rights. This will be a short lived victory for Colorado. Smoke 'em while you got 'em because you might be the one who gets smoked in a drone strike tommorow for marijuana possession.

[powderman]