Posted on 12/10/2012 1:33:01 PM PST by Morgana
DENVER — Go ahead and bust out the Cheetos and Goldfish, Colorado. Marijuana is now legal in the Centennial State.
Just over a month after the citizens of Colorado voted in overwhelming favor of Amendment 64 to legalize marijuana for recreational use, Governor John Hickenlooper signed the Executive Order that makes an “official declaration of the vote.”
What does it mean?
(Excerpt) Read more at kdvr.com ...
One solution would be for the Feds to get out of the drug enforcement business and leave it up to the states, like 99% of criminal law and enforcement.
Summer job. I was working at a truss factory. We pre-fabbed roof and floor trusses. We would place the wood into the frame we wanted, placed a metal mesh between the boards to hold them in place. We would hit that mesh with a hammer to hold it in place before it went through the roller.
Stoner was on my team. We used to go very fast because the team that produced the most during the week got to work double time on Saturday. Incentive for big money. One of the issues the plant had was people used to do meth in the morning to go fast and during afternoon break they would smoke to wind down.
Late one afternoon as I was placing a mesh down and as I got ready to hit it in place, the team member took a swing and caught me flush on the bone where my hand and third finger comes together. Think that is the capitate. He lost track of what he was responsible for.
This law is going to cause a train wreck.
Pot should be treated like alcohol! It’s pretty easy to tell if someone is high on either alcohol or pot! If you come to work stoned or drunk you should be fired! If you kill someone behind the wheel while impaired you should go to prison and loose your driving privileges permanently!
Are you stoned or stupid?
“Are you stoned or stupid?”
I did not vote for Obozo!!
I didnt mean you...
“Even worse - imagine if booze-drinking teachers can now be employed.”
We had teachers like that in school. One I remember would come to teachers meetings pretending to be sober. He had a nose like WC Fields.
Well, I guess everyone has his own standards.
We must have had the same teacher. :p
The legalization of this ILLICIT DRUG is exactly why I despise LIBERTARIANS!
Alcohol is already a MAJOR problem. It could not be removed from the public during prohibition because it had been socially acceptable for centuries to millenia before prohibition attempted to lessen its use. Getting “on the wagon” just couldn’t be sold. It was too established.
However, Marijuanna is still, for the most part, not a mainstream thing....its use has not been intwined in the social fabric for centuries like alcohol.
It is a SERIOUS MISTAKE to legalize this stuff except for a legitimate medical purpose. I am convinced in helps those on chemo and somewhat on glaucoma....but for recreational use....NEVER should be allowed.
As another poster has mentioned here....this is going to create all kinds of “Under the Influence” problems that won’t be easily resolved.....IT JUST ISN’T worth the headache.
Colorado voters that approved this are idiots.
They heal no one, and slowly kill all that use them.
Healing is through YHVH’s righteousness, and the herbs he gave us.
What it means to Organized Crime is something entirely different: They have suddenly lost a major source of income, and will be looking to replace it with something else.
100% correct. Prohibition doesn't work. Period. It didn't stop alcohol consumption and it isn't stopping pot use. Organized crime hates this move to decriminalize drugs, for the rest of us it is a good thing.
Are you actually claiming God wants you to smoke pot...?
The legalization of this ILLICIT DRUG is exactly why I despise LIBERTARIANS!
Alcohol is already a MAJOR problem. It could not be removed from the public during prohibition because it had been socially acceptable for centuries to millenia before prohibition attempted to lessen its use. Getting “on the wagon” just couldn’t be sold. It was too established.
However, Marijuanna is still, for the most part, not a mainstream thing....its use has not been intwined in the social fabric for centuries like alcohol.
It is a SERIOUS MISTAKE to legalize this stuff except for a legitimate medical purpose. I am convinced in helps those on chemo and somewhat on glaucoma....but for recreational use....NEVER should be allowed.
As another poster has mentioned here....this is going to create all kinds of “Under the Influence” problems that won’t be easily resolved.....IT JUST ISN’T worth the headache.
Colorado voters that approved this are idiots.
Same here. That will make it very difficult for the legislature to tweak it when we see what problems there are.
Given the egos involved in federal LE, I doubt we'll see ATF agents swooping in to bust people for an ounce, but this situation creates a lot of uncertainty.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Thank you for that front page, Wolfie!
And you would be wrong.
Any more than He expects you to eat poisonous berries.
It’s up to the states. yes , smoking pot is not a great idea, but it’s up the each state unless we want a one-size-fits all Federal goobermint.
I guess we can expect a further polarized country since some on the left and right WANT an all-powerful NATIONALIZED government to fight over.
Either have federalism or just shred the Constitution and have federal courts make all laws for the states.
Not every thing that’s bad for you should be illegal under federal law.
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