Colorado ski town legalizes pot

AP ^ | 11/4/2009

[My Favorite Headache]

DENVER – The Colorado ski town of Breckenridge has voted overwhelmingly to legalize marijuana.

Early returns Tuesday night showed the proposal winning with 72 percent of the vote.

[USMCPOP]

I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand many years ago. It was apparent that smoking ganja was a pretty low-class thing to do.

[wardaddy]

wow..i used to smoke there myself 30 years ago...hell, we smoked in the Angel’s Rest bar...old bordello

only two peaks then

[trumandogz]

Good move.

[boop]

I can agree with this if they just leave it as is. “Medical marijuana” is a crock of poop. Just decriminalize small amounts, fine.

[Cedar]

So now the snow town can just stare at candles and “drift” away.

[BeckB]

Hopefully, those using drugs in my state will move there.

[Just Lori]

Careful with them moguls, dudes!

[familyop]

Breckenridge was a sea of Obama campaign signs before the election. The place leans extremely toward the libertine left.

[firebrand]

Cosmic. Geometric.

[U.S. Army Retired]

Looks like John Denvers song “Rocky Mountain High” is about to become reality.

[U.S. Army Retired]

Looks like John Denvers song “Rocky Mountain High” is about to become reality.

[freekitty]

I think it’s a stupid thing to do.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“libertine”

& voting 0bama? Dumbasses.

[WellyP]

Employese be advised that Vail Resort’s random drug testing program will go into high gear!

[WellyP]

“Breck” is nothing more than “Alta Boulder”!

[dragonblustar]

This is going to make some great skiing bloopers.

[corkoman]

I think it’s a stupid thing to do.

And thankfully enough voters chose to preserve liberty and allow Americans to choose to do stupid things. Liberty has that funny quality.

[lowbridge]

Watch for a rise in the number of skiing accidents.

[skikvt]

There is nothing conservative about a nanny state. I was in the ski industry for twenty years. Most of the biggest pro names in the business smoke as much as any Rastafarian: while skiing. It's part of the culture. There won't be any increase in accidents.

[Dilbert56]

Headline is incorrect - the town cannot supersede state law. They may have voted to legalize pot but they didn't legalize it.

[kitchen]

“Breck” is nothing more than “Alta Boulder”!

They'll have to fight Steamboat for that title.

[green iguana]

but they didn't legalize it

They did, WRT the town's laws. City police will not arrest for possession now (if they ever did before...) But you are right in that county or state officers could still arrest someone (if the county has an ordinance against it.) Just a lot fewer of them around to worry about.

[dirtboy]

But you are right in that county or state officers could still arrest someone

Colorado has largely decriminalized pot. Posession of an ounce or less is a summary offense.

[READINABLUESTATE]

What the heck, they are all wasted on the “kine bud” as it is now.