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To: Smokin' Joe
If nearly half of Colorado's demand for pot is supplied by illegal sources,there is a lot of money flowing into criminal hands yet.

Much less than before legalization - which is a win in my book.

As for drugs, we have enough problems with the recreational use of alcohol, a drug that has been wildly popular for thousands of years. Do we really need to assimilate another intoxicant into the culture?

By that logic, do we not need to remove the intoxicant alcohol from the culture? Have you heard how our last attempt to do so turned out?

--especially one which is difficult to quantify levels of intoxication? which lingers in the body long after consumption, making the effects difficult to assess?

What lingers in the body is inactive metabolic byproducts, and THC stored in fat cells (so not affecting brain or nerves) that leaches back into the bloodstream so slowly as to have no measurable or detectable effect.

40 posted on 09/11/2015 12:03:51 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (a "guest worker" is a stateless person with no ties to any community, only to his paymaster)
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To: ConservingFreedom

I’m just curious, do you smoke a lot of pot currently?


43 posted on 09/11/2015 12:06:06 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: ConservingFreedom
Have you heard how our last attempt to do so turned out?

Ya think? It built the sort of criminal organizations we have now peddling the next profitable item when Prohibition was repealed.

Considering I will never get (short of winning the Powerball) to retire, and not because of MY drug use (nonexistent) but that of a relative, do not bother to try to sell me on the alleged virtues of any of it.

The only reason I do not like the Drug War is that it has been used as a convenient excuse to feed the habit of those addicted to something even more alluring than drugs: POWER.

47 posted on 09/11/2015 12:17:18 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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