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Colorado Governor Says Voters Were 'Reckless' to Legalize Marijuana
International Business Times ^ | Oct 6th, 2014 | David Sirota

Posted on 10/06/2014 2:56:53 PM PDT by Mariner

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper says his state's voters were "reckless" for voting to become the first state to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The Democrat's statement came during a debate Monday with his Republican opponent, Bob Beauprez, just four weeks before voters head to the polls for the state's hotly contested gubernatorial election.

In 2012, more than 55 percent of voters in Colorado supported Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana for recreational use. The amendment aimed to regulate marijuana in roughly the same way alcohol is regulated.

(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: cannabis; colorado; hickenlooper; johnhickenlooper; libertarians; marijuana; medicalmarijuana; pot; potheads; rockymountainhigh; stoners; weed; wod
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A surefire way to get unelected is to tell 55% of the state's voters they did something stupid.

It will work every time.

1 posted on 10/06/2014 2:56:53 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

You are correct. Even if it is true.


2 posted on 10/06/2014 2:58:12 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (Texas isn't just a state. It's a state of mind!)
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To: Mariner

I only have one comment. DUH!


3 posted on 10/06/2014 2:58:12 PM PDT by katwoman5779
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It has been proven more reckless to have voted for him as gov. The only negative so far with pot being legalized is the intrusion of the gov on every level in what is now a legal business in Colorado.


4 posted on 10/06/2014 2:59:49 PM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: rfreedom4u

And it’s HIS core, base voters.


5 posted on 10/06/2014 3:00:23 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

My tagline.


6 posted on 10/06/2014 3:00:43 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Mariner

He’s correct, but you can’t tell that to a country whose only remaining consolation is that it can narcotize itself into oblivion.


7 posted on 10/06/2014 3:01:12 PM PDT by madprof98
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To: Mariner

Colorado really didn’t need to vote for more stoners.


8 posted on 10/06/2014 3:01:16 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Mariner

get a judge to overturn it just like same sex marriage ban , LOL


9 posted on 10/06/2014 3:01:39 PM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Mariner

Exactly, Dems can’t full court press to get uninformed voters and then complain about the results.
Voting for him has been much worse for the state than legalized pot, anyway.


10 posted on 10/06/2014 3:02:45 PM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: Mariner

Reckless?

Hell, the piper hasn’t even finished playing his tune, much less asking for payment.

But when the fallout happens and even libertarian stoners see the light of day - Gov. ‘looper will be proven correct.


11 posted on 10/06/2014 3:02:55 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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He signed it.


12 posted on 10/06/2014 3:03:17 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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I saw this morning that homeless people were flooding Colorado to take advantage of the legal pot.

I expect every one of them votes Democrat. Even the ones who don’t vote.


13 posted on 10/06/2014 3:03:41 PM PDT by SusaninOhio
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They were even more reckless to elect tax & spend Democrats to the state legislature, the governor’s office and to Congress.


14 posted on 10/06/2014 3:04:05 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: DonaldC

Disagree. I believe it will be a negative to your tourism. While some will visit because they CAN smoke week there, many, like me, will not visit or will not go back. I am in the latter; I was there with some family the first week of September. I kept smelling a horrible smell that was making me sick. it wasn’t till we got to the stadium sunday night for the broncos game that it finally hit me what the smell was (it was there, also).
I will NEVER so much as even drive thru the state again


15 posted on 10/06/2014 3:04:54 PM PDT by SendShaqtoIraq
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To: Responsibility2nd
"But when the fallout happens"

What will the fallout be?

16 posted on 10/06/2014 3:05:02 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

WHO SIGNED THE BILL?


17 posted on 10/06/2014 3:05:51 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: SusaninOhio

If you were giving away Free Booze and Guns it be the same.


18 posted on 10/06/2014 3:05:59 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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Stoned people make reckless decisions. A lot of the corruption, evil and sick and twisted cr@p going on today is because of pot where even deprave things are ‘funny’.


19 posted on 10/06/2014 3:06:00 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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But the taxes we’re getting is okay ...


20 posted on 10/06/2014 3:06:20 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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