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Where The War On Pot Will Go To Die
Time ^ | May 23, 2014 | Mike Gillespie

Posted on 05/24/2014 3:38:24 PM PDT by Wolfie

Where The War On Pot Will Go To Die

In some states, there's an untenable mismatch between the crime and the time, but does anyone think that pot—medical or recreational—will still be illegal in 10 years?

Now that a majority of Americans—54% and climbing, according to Pew Research—believe that marijuana should be treated like beer, wine and liquor, it’s time to ask: where does the war on pot go to die?

What episode will trigger that final skirmish that kicks over the hollowed-out edifice of marijuana prohibition like the Berlin Wall? What will be the final outrage against common sense and common decency that triggers an Arab Spring for weed in these U.S.? Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia already have medical marijuana (with more to come), and full legalization has gained 13 percentage points in just the past five years.

Ironically, whatever ends the war on pot won’t happen in Colorado or Washington, which have already legalized recreational pot and have received vague promises from Attorney General Eric Holder that the feds won’t bust people and businesses who comply with state laws. Colorado is further along in the retail process than Washington (where pot shops won’t open until mid-July), and so far the only problem of note is that the state is raking in 40% more tax revenue than originally projected.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: marijuana; pot; potheads; wod; wosd
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1 posted on 05/24/2014 3:38:24 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: Wolfie
Where The War On Pot Will Go To Die

Same place as the 1920's war on alcohol along with all the crime syndicates that go with it.

2 posted on 05/24/2014 3:41:45 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: Wolfie
I just want to know where Time is going to go to die.
3 posted on 05/24/2014 3:41:46 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus)
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To: Wolfie

Now that the majority of the clowns living in this country no longer have to work for a living, I guess they need something to do.


4 posted on 05/24/2014 3:42:23 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Obama's smidgens are coming home to roost.)
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To: Wolfie
does anyone think that pot—medical or recreational—will still be illegal in 10 years?

It won't be legal in all of Texas. We've still got dry counties in Texas where you can't buy alcohol.

/johnny

5 posted on 05/24/2014 3:43:54 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: PapaNew
Same place as the 1920's war on alcohol along with all the crime syndicates that go with it.

Residing in government?

6 posted on 05/24/2014 3:45:36 PM PDT by upsdriver (Palin/West '16)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Same in Kansas, last I heard.
Many years ago the sunflower state had an attorney general named Vern Miller who tried to get a court order prohibiting airlines from serving alcohol while in Kansas airspace (!).


7 posted on 05/24/2014 3:47:10 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: upsdriver

Well, I think government is on something a lot stronger than pot: the ever-more concentrated, uncut drug of POWER (with our money).


8 posted on 05/24/2014 3:53:41 PM PDT by PapaNew
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To: Wolfie

Does anyone think that tobacco will be illegal ever?


9 posted on 05/24/2014 4:00:59 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Wolfie

Ten years from now?

Well, America has already become a patheticly zonked-out cesspool of dopeheads and degenerates. An embarrassment to everything it once was. I have strong doubts as to whether the country itself will still be standing in ten years.


10 posted on 05/24/2014 4:02:04 PM PDT by greene66
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“What will be the final outrage against common sense and common decency that triggers an Arab Spring for weed in these U.S.? “

If it wasn’t the time Atlanta cops shot a grandmother in her bed mistakenly and then planted dope on her, it’s hard to imagine what would do it.


11 posted on 05/24/2014 4:03:17 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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Does anyone think that tobacco will be illegal ever?
The states make waaaaay too much money taxing tobacco to ever prohibit it's sale.
12 posted on 05/24/2014 4:03:54 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Lurker
Atlanta cops shot a grandmother in her bed mistakenly and then planted dope on her

It's for the children.

13 posted on 05/24/2014 4:05:38 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

The siren cry of tyrants on the right and the left since time immemorial.

“It’s for the children!”

L


14 posted on 05/24/2014 4:06:47 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Wolfie

Where alcohol + pot contribute to a death, pot will be dismissed as a possibility. :(


15 posted on 05/24/2014 4:07:09 PM PDT by Does so ("Miranda Warnings" and loss of "Common-Law Marriage" = 2 Big Mistakes...)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Love your tag line, btw.


16 posted on 05/24/2014 4:07:25 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Since there are 10x as many unemployed as homosexuals, and everybody seems to be a homosexual, theft on the grand scale will be the next pestilence.


17 posted on 05/24/2014 4:09:19 PM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: PapaNew

Back to prostitution, gambling, and corrupt unions?


18 posted on 05/24/2014 4:15:26 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: tumblindice

I flew over Kansas one time. Once we were in KS airspace alcohol was NOT allowed to be served. That was in 1975.


19 posted on 05/24/2014 4:20:31 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Lurker
Thanks! Back at ya.
20 posted on 05/24/2014 4:20:32 PM PDT by ConservingFreedom (A goverrnment strong enough to impose your standards is strong enough to ban them.)
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