Family-owned Colo. marijuana shop wants to become 'Costco of weed' [but with armed guards]

yahoo.com ^ | January 22, 2014 | Dylan Stableford

[Wolfie]

An armed society is a polite society, and the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Haven’t you been keeping up?

[Wolfie]

This is casino gambling gone horticultural. When the cash-starved States get a whiff of what WA and CO are pulling in from legal marijuana, they’ll be lining up to be next. I know a lot of addle-brained Prohibitionists are crying in their beers over this (the irony!), but that just makes it so much more fun.

[tacticalogic]

Pot is weird stuff that can have dramatic affects on some peoples thought processes and memory. The very mention of the word can make liberals suddenly remember the 10th Amendment, and a lot of self-described conservatives suddenly forget it.

[Carriage Hill]

Super-Blunt!

[Wolfie]

I’m afraid there isn’t a drug (legal or illegal) that can instill one with the rarest of all attributes - intellectual consistency.

[PowderMonkey]

"I’d be more than a little afraid that the Mexican drug cartels would retaliate against me"br>

Illicit drug activity accounts for only a portion of the cartels' source of income. With legalization, they will make even more money, establishing storefronts and retail chains. As legit businessmen now, the cartels will move from trafficking drugs, to more profitable enterprises like extortion and political corruption. No more getting their hands dirty in grow operations or distribution. You do the leg work, the dirty work. They collect a portion of the payoff. Just give them a cut of your action, or your whole family will stop breathing.

[dmz]

should we manage to retake the whitehouse and/or senate, putting these effers in prison should be at the top of our list of things to do.

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Yes!!! How dare those states attempt to nullify laws the fed has put in place with no Consitituional authority to do so in the first place. And the people of those states should PAY by forfeiting their freedom!!!!

[dmz]

This country is screwed up enough without encouraging drug addiction.

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LOL. Never watch any sports on television, do you.

The owners of the airwaves (you know, the FCC) have permitted this forever. (Hint: think Clydesdales)

[RC one]

yes, because we have a nation full of alcoholics, we should encourage drug addiction. Brilliant. Oh, and there's no difference between drinking a couple of beers and taking a couple of bong hits of white widow. No difference at all. right? I have been dealing with drug addicts and alcoholics for decades. I am too familiar with their M.O. Everything they say and do revolves around justifying their addiction. It gets to the point where you aren't even talking to a person anymore, you're talking to a disease process, to a slave. And this is what you and Obama want for America? For yourself? what a waste of a life.

Face it. Someone has to be the grown up here.

[tacticalogic]

I have been dealing with drug addicts and alcoholics for decades.

I understand if you think that experience makes you better qualified to talk about what public policy should be with regard to drugs. I think Sara Brady believes the same thing with regard to guns, and I have to discount her opinion because she's emotionally attached to the issue and can't be trusted to be objective because of it.

[KeyLargo]

IL Medical marijuana card will come at high price… no guns.

http://www.gunssavelife.com/?p=10563

[RC one]

yes, let’s trust the opinions of drug addicts on this matter. there’s so much less “attachment” to the issue that way. LMAO.

[tacticalogic]

yes, let’s trust the opinions of drug addicts on this matter. there’s so much less “attachment” to the issue that way. LMAO.

Yes, it's either trust you, or trust the drug addicts. The propaganda artists play that same game. False dichotomies.

[PhiloBedo]

Yep!

[William Tell]

PowderMonkey said: "With legalization, they will make even more money, establishing storefronts and retail chains. As legit businessmen now, the cartels will move from trafficking drugs, to more profitable enterprises like extortion and political corruption. "

Political corruption can't exist in an environment of freedom and limited government. If, for example, anybody can run their own casino, then there is no benefit to bribing a zoning official or a legislator.

Who would the cartels extort and why would anybody pay? If kidnapping for ransom was profitable, they would be doing it and are doing it in some locales.

Would you really want to be a criminal enterprise competing directly with Walmart?

I don't know the details of the situation in Colorado, but I do know that pot literally grows on trees. If the law allows people to grow their own without withering taxes, the price will plummet as soon as the first crop is in.

[PowderMonkey]

"If the law allows people to grow their own without withering taxes, the price will plummet as soon as the first crop is in."

The first crop is in. Demand is skyrocketing. At $400 per ounce. That a far cry from the days when illegal "Colombian Gold" sold at a whopping $35 per ounce, brought into the U.S. one laborious plane load at a time. Bottom line, I can refute your position with one family name: Kennedy. Old Joe didn't make his money running rum during prohibition. He made his money and accumulated political influence because he was in place and ready to profit handsomely from established networks when prohibition was repealed. Political corruption can't exist in an environment of freedom and limited government? Really?

[William Tell]

PowderMonkey said: "Political corruption can't exist in an environment of freedom and limited government? "

Please provide an example of Kennedy's political corruption that isn't an example of excess government control.

Also, when I smoked tobacco years ago, I consumed one to two packs a day, perhaps thirty cigarettes. Would that habit cost $7 per day now?

What's so different about marijuana that delivering thirty cigarettes per day would have to cost more than $10? I'm pretty sure that's in the neighborhood of an ounce.

[William Tell]

RC one said: "yes, because we have a nation full of alcoholics, we should encourage drug addiction. "

Oh, how I yearn for the good old days; when permitting something to free adults did not constitute approval or encouragement.

What other things of which you disapprove would you like to outlaw?

[PowderMonkey]

"What's so different about marijuana that delivering thirty cigarettes per day would have to cost more than $10? I'm pretty sure that's in the neighborhood of an ounce. "

You're playing Obama's game of comparing tobacco to marijuana. Apples and oranges. Everybody loves to get high. The human animal craves intoxication. Hence the "pernicious weed's" popularity, skyrocketing demand, and price. Until that changes, the WOD is an expensive lost cause. Few like tobacco because it makes your teeth yellow and makes you stink and cough up blood. Don't get me wrong. I do not oppose legalization. Just don't tell me everything is going to turn up roses and rainbows upon legalization. I spent many years as an criminal intelligence analyst dealing with organized crime. The cartels are going to grow stronger and more influential, trading knife and gun for law firms and politicians. An example of Kennedy's political corruption that isn't an example of excess government? Old Joe used his money to buy judges, aldermen, precinct captains, union goons, an ambassadorial appointment to the Court of St. James, and a senate seat for his kid leading to a presidency, all in the absence of any government control. Extralegal activity defined.

[RC one]

You’re right, surely nothing but good things will come to the country and the people that embrace drug addiction.