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Colorado Is Consuming Way More Pot Than Anyone Ever Believed
Time Magazine ^
| July 10, 2014
| Maya Rhodan
Posted on 07/12/2014 2:55:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: CodeToad
Those that didnt smoke pot didnt start. Don't be naive. Ready availability and social (and legal) acceptance of the drug is going to create new users. Primarily among young people who are already desirous of peer acceptance.
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posted on
07/12/2014 7:00:03 AM PDT
by
LouAvul
(If government is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
07/12/2014 7:03:01 AM PDT
by
al_c
(Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
To: jacknhoo; samtheman
What I have seen for 50 years is the pot smokers who are not addicted, yet will do anything to secure their pot, even when it meant a felony for possession (for instance in Texas when pot was first breaking out). People who risk their careers and and jail and reputations to do something that didn’t mean anything to them supposedly.
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posted on
07/12/2014 7:04:05 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
According to the study, published Wednesday, the bulk of the demand for the drug comes from the most frequent users...Imagine that! I wonder how much the study cost to come up with that earth-shattering discovery?
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posted on
07/12/2014 7:09:54 AM PDT
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: sakic
I have never observed a successful pothead. In my place of work, it would be difficult to have a drug addiction in any case, since my employer does random drug testing. Marijuana will continue to show positive results for weeks after a single use.
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posted on
07/12/2014 7:13:19 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The steady leftward slide of the state’s Demwits continues to puzzle analysts.
Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
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posted on
07/12/2014 8:05:20 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: exDemMom
Spending $100 dollars to provide entitlements to get back $10 in sales taxes is hardly profitable. That's OK...as long as they democrat.../S
Government and profitable are oxymorons...
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posted on
07/12/2014 8:45:45 AM PDT
by
Popman
("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
To: Popman
That's OK...as long as they democrat.../SMake that "vote" democrat
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posted on
07/12/2014 8:49:03 AM PDT
by
Popman
("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Where there’s smoke...there’s Colorado.
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posted on
07/12/2014 9:20:06 AM PDT
by
DPMD
To: NonValueAdded
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posted on
07/12/2014 9:20:46 AM PDT
by
DPMD
To: LouAvul
Many people will switch from other habits and intoxicants to pot, so yes there will be new pot users.
The silver lining of the pot smoke cloud is that it makes America’s problem more obvious. When life seems to get so unbearable and pointless that one’s chief desire is to drown one’s sorrows in pot, something that is in some ways less acutely harmful than alcohol, it will now become obvious.
I hope it will become more obvious that people need to be high, but high on God. God will also make you do things that the world says are stupid. God will make you generous when the world says you should fight those who grab things from you. God will make you love people who have treated you ugly, and yet not in an unhealthy way that makes you dependent upon them. God will take the unnecessary self-caused stress out of your life. In fact, God gives every good thing that could plausibly be ascribed to pot smoking, but without the stupor.
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posted on
07/12/2014 9:29:53 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: DPMD
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posted on
07/12/2014 9:30:14 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: LouAvul
Maybe you should parent better and stop blaming everyone else for your kids doing pot.
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posted on
07/12/2014 2:27:48 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(Arm Up! They Are!)
To: PastorBooks
What company in their right mind is going to want to open up shop in Colorado after they hear this?The same ones who turn a profit in the 50 states where alcohol is legal and widely used.
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posted on
07/12/2014 2:44:45 PM PDT
by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
To: samtheman
I do believe there is a long-term carry-over into memory and productivity with potThere is measurable reduction in reaction times and the like for 12-24 hours after use. More than alcohol - but certainly too thin a reed on which to hang legality for one versus a complete ban of the other.
if 10%, 20%, 30% or more people become permanently non-productive
I see no reason to expect that.
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posted on
07/12/2014 2:49:49 PM PDT
by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
To: exDemMom
Pot is more carcinogenic than tobacco.Actually, last I heard the most serious lung ailment that had been conclusively linked to marijuana was bronchitis. (Not that I'd be shocked to learn it causes cancer.)
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posted on
07/12/2014 2:53:03 PM PDT
by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
To: exDemMom
But converting $100 dollars of federal entitlements to $10 in state sales taxes is profitable- for the state.
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posted on
07/12/2014 3:15:09 PM PDT
by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: CodeToad
You know, FR used to be a decent place till you libertarian fools infested it. You've got no national voice because you're idiots, yet here you are.
You've got me confused with someone who cares what dopers think.
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posted on
07/12/2014 4:25:54 PM PDT
by
LouAvul
(If government is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
To: exDemMom
Your observations aside, I know two immensely successful potheads. One was the number 2 at one of America’s largest corporations.
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posted on
07/12/2014 8:04:49 PM PDT
by
sakic
To: LouAvul
You've got no national voiceAnd yet a majority of Americans agree with libertarians that pot should be legalized. Go figure.
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posted on
07/13/2014 1:25:17 PM PDT
by
ConservingFreedom
(A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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