Whether You Like it or Not - California Will Legalize Pot Next Year

cbs47 ^ | 9-27-09 | cakid1

[cakid1]

Whether You Like it or Not - California Will Legalize Pot Next Year

(That seems to be the idea behind a new article out today)

According to a well known, and outspoken leader from the left it’s a good bet that the state will legalize Pot next year.

Part of the reason?

The state needs...

[cakid1]

The petitions to put it on the ballot next year just got the okay..

[nickcarraway]

Gavin, is that you?

[rsobin]

Well, I live in N.C. and that is their business.

[CommieCutter]

The state needs...

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DA MONEY!

[Nosterrex]

California went to pot decades ago.

[Texas Eagle]

Great. Now every lazy, deadbeat, RAT voter will move here.

The only possible good thing I can see coming out of this is the rest of the states seeing just how stupid a move this is and avoid doing it themselves.

[wireplay]

About time. Let’s end the drug war, finally.

[Brilliant]

Fine with me.

[Bon mots]

Who cares?

Um what was this post about again?

[BulletBobCo]

Then California gets to see if Federal Law trumps State Law.

[Bon mots]

Um what was this post about again?

Um what was this post thread about again?

[Texas Eagle]

“…There is just too much money to be made both by the people who grow marijuana and the cities and counties that would be able to tax it.” …Willie Brown

Idiot. Why would people pay tax for something they are currently getting tax free?

[Bon mots]

BTW - are you going to finish that brownie?

[airborne]

About time. Let’s end the drug war, finally.

Don't hold your breath. (your hit, maybe)

[LukeL]

Will the state only allow the government to oversee the growing of the marijuana? Or will you be able to grow it in your closet?

[Political Junkie Too]

Then California gets to see if Federal Law trumps State Law.

With Obama in the White House, you're kidding, right?

-PJ

[silentreignofheroes]

Same here,it’s their business.

Financial news update:

Buy stock in Moonpies.

[Responsibility2nd]

Exactly.

Then I want every surrender monkey on the WOD to see what idiots they are.

[Texas Eagle]

Will the state only allow the government to oversee the growing of the marijuana? Or will you be able to grow it in your closet?

Hmmmmmm.....gee, I guess we'll have to pass a bunch of new laws to address this and the many other questions that will inevitably rear their ugly heads.

[wireplay]

I don’t use pot but ill roll that cigar smoke in my mouth right now a little longer.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think this is great. Maybe now all the Californians living in Arizona will go the hell home and take their communist politics with them.

[stuartcr]

I doubt that, how would they be able to afford it?

[LukeL]

Also how will it be regulated? Will there be zero tolerance for driving while high? How about smoking around children? How will you tax it? Where can you sell it?

There is something called the Law of Unintended Consequences and this will be a great example of it.

[TRY ONE]

Why don’t they just do an Omnibus Bill:

One that legalizes pot/same-sex_marriage/abortion_on_demand_up_to_age_13

[Responsibility2nd]

Idiot. Why would people pay tax for something they are currently getting tax free?

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I’ve been asking pro-dope libertarians that for years. Why are liberaltarians so anxious to increase taxes and grow the government to even greater proportions?

Immoral dopeheads; the lot of ‘em.

[GeronL]

whipee.

Won’t solve any of their problems.

Will it be illegal to grow it? I guess they’ll have to raid homes to stop that from happening.

[Maine Mariner]

“Great. Now every lazy, deadbeat, RAT voter will move here.”

Yes but think how that will help Republicans (hopefully conservatives) in the rest of the nation.

[GeronL]

It will still be illegal to grow it. Probably only the state will be able to sell it legally.

[webschooner]

Here, here. I’m in for that ...

“Fruits and nuts, your Hemp Bowl is calling you. Time to grift your way home.”

[ccmay]

Don’t care. Any waste case who wants weed is already getting all he can use. The social harm from making it illegal outweighs any direct damage it causes. I want the Feds to keep their noses out of it too.

[SIDENET]

Um what was this post about again?

Doritos?

[wireplay]

Legalize use is a stepping stone (no pun intended). Colorado already effectively legalizes. Grow rights should be the case by default but 1 step is better than 0 tolerance.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This just means the DEA can establish their headquarters in Sacramento and start manufacturing drug criminals by the thousands every week.

[familyop]

Okay...no more business with California, and eject all California refugees back to where they came from.

[Toespi]

Wait until they see how much pot will cost them when they have to pay the tax on it. Growing your own will be illegal, and all new laws will have to be created and enforced regarding black market marijuana.

[familyop]

There was recent libertarian Californian Ideology news and glee that Mexico is legalizing marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and the like. California will make a fitting new state for Mexico. Adios, Californica! ...wouldn't wanna be ya!

[mamelukesabre]

What about pot for the needy? Will there be pot food stamps?

[mamelukesabre]

Alaska has always had legal pot...something no one ever seems to remember.

[ccmay]

Immoral dopeheads; the lot of ‘em.

I don't touch any drug except an occasional glass of wine, but I have worked in a psych hospital and seen the downside of every kind of legal and illegal drug.

The fact is that there is absolutely no comparison: Alcohol is far more dangerous and destructive than marijuana in every single way you can measure. Alcohol is probably the third or fourth worst drug out there (after PCP, amphetamines, and perhaps opiates.) I think that cocaine is in general not as dangerous as alcohol, and that even the opiates are running neck and neck with the booze. Marijuana is probably the safest strongly psychoactive substance known to mankind.

We have come to a societal accommodation with booze, taxing it and regulating it heavily, and we ought to be able to do the same with pot. Taxes will go up, but the overall cost of the material will go way way down, reducing the criminality associated with its production, distribution, and usage. Money that used to go to violent Mexican drug gangs will instead go to the state. With the stuff so much cheaper, there will be no need to commit burglaries or robberies to get enough money to buy it.

Moreover, with legalization there will be less pressure for draconian laws that rob us of our ancient Saxon liberties, pothead and teetotaler alike. All true conservatives should support this.

-ccm

[familyop]

"I think this is great. Maybe now all the Californians living in Arizona will go the hell home and take their communist politics with them."

But the Mexican border fence will have to go around the east and north sides of California, after we send them all back there. And we'll have to pay for that fence, 'cause they won't work for anything. ;-)

[hoosier hick]

And why would sellers (who are breaking the law now), want to do the paperwork and pay the taxes? Why not continue breaking the law?

Their logic escapes me....

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[dalereed]

Jerry the fairy don’t have anything to say about it!

[Responsibility2nd]

While what you said about marijuana may be true, legalization will not stop there. Proponents will clamor for legalized cocaine, meth and on and on.

And if harder drugs are not de-criminalized, then the cartels will happily continue on in their assault on America.

This Nation can NOT surrender in the WOD. California may lose the battle over marijuana, but it will be at their own peril.

[trumandogz]

The Nanny State Sycophants will not be amused.

[familyop]

"The fact is that there is absolutely no comparison: Alcohol is far more dangerous and destructive than marijuana in every single way you can measure. Alcohol is probably the third or fourth worst drug out there (after PCP, amphetamines, and perhaps opiates.)"

The dishonest behind that old tale is obvious to the rest of us. We know how the bipolars, the depressed and the Xanax ho's got started. Most of us are also aware that most of the alcoholics drink in order to soothe the initial paranoia in their pot high.

Marijuana is the most common tool for inducting working class young people into slavery.

[underthestreetlite]

[familyop]

...the dishonesty behind that old tale, even.

[steve86]

I am adamantly for or against almost any controversial issue, but on this one...ho hum. Would I try pot if it were completely legal? Haven’t decided.

[trumandogz]

I agree with you word for word down to my former employment in a psy. hospital and my occasional glass of wine.

[ChrisInAR]

I like it....I LIIIIIIIIIKE IT! :-)