Not happening in CO, which has had legal pot for 2 years and medical mj since 2001 =>
Posted on 04/16/2015 6:17:50 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
As I sat across from Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) and Cory Booker (D-New Jersey), I knew something extraordinary was happening.
They were reciting the story of Charlotte Figi and countless other children. They were quoting back the data we had shared from our earlier investigations. They were extolling the potential virtues of the plant, and all of that was before the interview even started. There was an impatience about them, and they seemed in a hurry to make a large dent in marijuana reform.
They want marijuana to be rescheduled. They want it now.
They want doctors to be able to prescribe it at VA hospitals all over the country. They want it now.
They want research dollars freed up to study the plant. They want it now.
They want their fellow lawmakers at the state and national level to acknowledge what most of the world, including the citizens of the United States, have known for a long time: Marijuana is a medicine, that should be studied and treated like any other medicine.
And they want all of it now.
I spent much of our interview challenging them. I needed to remind them that people, long before me or them, have been trying to do many of these same things for 40 years, and had been rejected every time. I reminded them that politicians have a hard time winning elections on the issue of marijuana but less difficulty losing them. I challenged them every step of the way. "This time will be different," Booker confidently told me as he walked out of the room.
I know how easy it is do nothing because I did nothing for too long.
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Not happening in CO, which has had legal pot for 2 years and medical mj since 2001 =>
Remember a couple years ago when the found the happiest person in America? He was a married retired male of Asian descent who was practicing Orthodox Jew. Lived in Hawaii.
Yes, I believe that was Chou Lin Greenbaum.
Sober minded people put the number at closer to 12%.
I think it's safe to assume that Colorado's numbers are similarly cooked.
Perhaps not as cooked as the brains of potheads, but cooked nonetheless.
I think it's safe to assume that Colorado's numbers are similarly cooked.
Fine. Let's accept what you say, which roughly doubles the figures. You have a national unemployment of 11.6 vs a CO unemployment of 8.2.
You must've slept through the lecture on ratios in Math 101.
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