Posted on 07/10/2011 2:54:46 PM PDT by dennisw
There are now more medical marijuana dispensaries in the Mile High city than there are branches of Starbucks.
In Denver, Colorado, there are nearly 300 locations where patients with a prescription from a doctor can legally buy medical marijuana, reports The Daily.
New patients are often treated to a free joint, and have their choice of an ever growing array of strains of marijuana, many with colourful names like Golden Goat and Romulan Cotton Candy.
Besides Colorado, 15 other states plus Washington, D.C., have laws that allow use of medical marijuana.
This does not trump federal law, but the Obama administration has said it is not interested in prosecuting state-licensed dispensaries or those who use the drug as prescribed by a doctor.
During the Bush administration, federal agents did often clash with the medical marijuana industry in states where it had been locally legalized, and many shops were raided.
Westword editor Patricia Calhoun told The Daily: 'It’s a fun new writing area, and if your publication prides itself on doing strong cultural coverage of art, theatre and food, then why not do pot, too?'
Mr Breathes is said to be an experienced journalist, and he writes on all aspects of the Denver medical marijuana scene, including detailed reviews of specific strains for sale, the shops and relevant political and social issues.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
California passed an in itiative in 1999 for medical marijuana, and the feds never tried hard to enforce their laws.
To my knowledge, it isn’t a major issue, in the overall ranking of problems.
Balancing the budget is, though.
Do you believe that is in keeping with the original Commerce Clause and Tenth Amendment?
Lol! I think it's "monumentally" ironic that you posted this comment...but I'm not going to waste time explaining why, because you clearly would not "get it" - and you are most definitely not from Denver. Ha!
Medical Marijuana sure cleared the illegal aliens out of this town>>>>>>>
Do you mean they couldn’t make money selling Marijuana anymore? They could always get into the meth peddling business. Most meth comes from Mexico these days
Very mature. Go ahead and smoke your pot and tell your nursery rhymes. Perhaps from the swansong of the red diaper doper babies?
Such is the reading level of most potheads I’ve come across, anyway.
“Medical” marijuana. What a freaking joke.
Good. I didn't like their coffee anyway...besides it's too expensive.
This is the only thing that embarrasses me about FR! There are so many of our members who don’t “get” basic literature! I’m talking about sarcasm, exaggeration, irony, and ESPECIALLY “satire”.
(Now, because there are so many dolts here, unfortunately, I must say “yes, I know this post is NOT SATIRE”.)
But, seriously, how sad is it that some people here on FR don’t get the finer styles of written communication?
Toad - the headline was not meant to be ‘literal’. It is trying to make a point that there are many hundreds of shops here in Denver - and suggests it’s, therefore, easier to get weed than coffee. That’s all.
Exactly! See my post #38. In My Hands always posts his comments in a little black frame; this is the ‘tell’ of a narcissist. He always tries to carefully craft his little memes so very carefully - and then ‘gift wrapped’ in a neat little frame.
GaGggggggggggggG!
“easier to get weed than coffee”
That’s like saying because there are more women than weed shops that it is easier to get laid than get weed.
Making such statements about weed versus coffee is not “satire”. So it seems somen doesn’t get “basic literature”. It is simply a bad comparison, and a retarded one at that.
So is our Nation planning on trading pot to our enemies for trade instead of products that we manufactured in the past? Our leaders are brilliant, I tell ya. ...must be that crap that they’re smoking.
Exactly. I thought it was the economy but friends of mine who know everything about the MM laws told me that selling pot was their real source of income and the pot shops blew them out of the water.
They could always get into the meth peddling business.
They would have a near zero market for it here.
I don’t know what you’re seeing in your local area but 80-90% of the illegals left here about two years ago. Ain’t no Third World in this town now.
Colorado is a Godless place
What, Geo Washington smoked weed? Seriously?
Well it’s hard to say which came first, the mental illness or the MJ.........and since tyhere are no looney bins anymore, the nuts are self medicating.
At least it isn’t Kansas. LOL
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