Posted on 04/16/2013 8:49:41 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Last year, the University of Colorado-Boulder made national headlines for its efforts to stamp out what has historically been one of the most popular days on campus — the 4/20 marijuana smokeout, which in the past has drawn up to 11,000 pot smokers who toke up on the university’s quad at 4:20 p.m. on April 20.
Determined to see an end to the tradition, university officials took the unusual step of closing the campus to nonstudents and hosing down the lawn with a fish-based fertilizer that made the quad smell as appealing as an Alaskan pier.
Activists were outraged, but the school’s efforts paid off so well that they’ve announced a repeat of the measures this year (minus the fish fertilizer).
But with the passage in November of Amendment 64, which legalized recreational marijuana use by those 21 and older, people might not even notice that CU is largely pot-free.
That’s because practically every other corner of the state will be Rocky Mountain High with the celebratory toking of locals and visitors alike as this year’s 4/20 celebration is likely to dwarf anything seen in the past.
Colorado is bracing for thousands of out-of-state tourists who will take advantage of the new law, with 50,000 people expected for a smoke-out at Civic Center Park near the state capitol in Denver Saturday, and thousands more to attend the High Times’ Cannabis Cup competition, the first such non-medical event to be held in the United States.
Although it’s still illegal to smoke in public, police are expected to follow the same protocol as they have during past outdoor 4/20 celebrations and largely look the other way. The sheer numbers of pot smokers give officers little choice.
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Not the same actors, and not performing the same violent criminal acts. Thanks for the pro-legalization argument!
"The lush traffic in alcohol beverages during the violent years of 1920 to 1933 had laid the base of organization for a number of criminal gangs. The termination of the ban on liquor deprived these gangs of their most lucrative source of money" - Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce
You (intentionally) miss the point. The issue is taxes. And answer the question: Would a doper spend $15 for a $5 joint?
Back to the issue in real life: 3 out of 5 cigarettes in NYC are sold through the Black Market which funds terrorism.
Why? Cigarettes are legal, right?
I addressed that issue two posts ago: "they merely have to refrain from taxing it out the wazoo."
And answer the question: Would a doper spend $15 for a $5 joint?
No. If a frog had wings, would it drag its posterior on the ground?
Back to the issue in real life: 3 out of 5 cigarettes in NYC are sold through the Black Market which funds terrorism.
Why? Cigarettes are legal, right?
Because in NYC they're taxed out the wazoo. But nowhere else in the USA is this the case, and nowhere in the USA is it the case for the legal drug alcohol - so there's no reason to assume it would be true of legal marijuana.
And if SOME of the marijuana market was overtaxed and thus funded terrorism, that's still an improvement over the status quo in which ALL of the marijuana market funds terrorism
Sorry but in Washington’s case that just isn’t true. Besides 92% taxation the state is going to control the THC content to somewhere around 7%. Street pot now routinely tests much, much higher.
With the medical pot being seperate and given our state being close to the famous BC Bud and Washington’s big clandestine pot growers, the state will not see their pipe dream come true.
Nonsense - pot is produce, and even at a 92% tax rate only the most exotic legal produce costs as much as illegal pot, for which many are willing to pay.
Sorry but in Washington’s case that just isn’t true.
In Washington many kinds of legal produce are almost as expensive as illegal pot? Evidence?
Besides 92% taxation the state is going to control the THC content to somewhere around 7%. Street pot now routinely tests much, much higher.
As of 2009, the University of Mississippi's Marijuana Potency Monitoring Project found an average of 13% - higher but not "much, much higher." And you can get just as high on 7% as on 13% or 30% just as you can get as drunk on beer as on liquor - it just takes more consumption to get there.
You know what they say about arguing with idiots...
“produce”? You have no idea about what you speak, nor do you have any clue about reality as your responses show.
I am a 10 year medical patient who has doctors routinely offer me advice on pot as an alternative medicine and have tried it on occasions when standard medicine failed. Whether I chose to be or not, I am at ground zero for this legalization movement. I can assure you, as the law is written in Washington, it will fail just the the Federal program has failed the 12 or 13 patients left in the program. Everyone of them throw their government pot away and either grow their own or buy it from the grey market. So will the people here as soon as they experience the bad legal product and sky high taxes on crap. Nobody will pay it when other better, cheaper outlets are available, quit being stupid.
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