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Colorado finds its pot of gold
CBS News ^ | June 10, 2014 | By BARRY PETERSEN

Posted on 06/10/2014 4:26:08 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: nickcarraway

Indeed... this money grows weeds, it does not make oil pipelines. It is backed by death.


21 posted on 06/10/2014 4:57:32 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: bicyclerepair

Your right. I had the wrong idiot. Sorry Ms. Huffington!


22 posted on 06/10/2014 4:59:18 PM PDT by WMarshal (Free citizen, never a subject or a civilian)
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To: nickcarraway
>" If you think Mexican drug cartels are bad, wait until the government and big business are making big time money from it."

What gives you the impression they aren't and haven't been doing ever since prohibition?

We are arming BOTH SIDES in the WOD! The govt is making bank hand over fist! That's why they threaten to MURDER YOU for your flower garden!

Once prohibition ends the price and sales on cannabis will take a nose dive. Prohibition is the economic lifeblood of the cartels and the drug nazi death squads!

23 posted on 06/10/2014 4:59:26 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin; waxer1

The tax money from this is just going to increase the size of government, create more laws, more enforcement, and the need for the government to increase usage by the public. It’s not libertarian at all.


24 posted on 06/10/2014 4:59:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: rawcatslyentist

Keep dreaming. You are a government addict.


25 posted on 06/10/2014 5:00:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: rawcatslyentist
If marijuana has to be legalized, why not do it only on the condition it is not taxed AT ALL. And that it cannot be used as an entitlement.

NO, you would never do that, because the tax money is an addiction, AND you want marijuana to be paid for by the tax base, not the user. You are seriously addicted to big government and big business.

26 posted on 06/10/2014 5:03:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
>"10 toddlers so far this year overdosing on edible marijuana products.’"

Define "overdose"! None died, nor suffered ANY damage. Praise God it wasn't tylenol or aspirin!

Cannabis was designed for us by the one that designed us!

Keep telling yourself how right and righteous you are for destroying lives with your law. Cannabis does not make anyone a criminal, the law does.

27 posted on 06/10/2014 5:05:41 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: nickcarraway
>"You are a government addict."

What an insult!

How is being self sufficient make anyone a govt addict?

You speak of that which you do not know.

28 posted on 06/10/2014 5:08:26 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: rawcatslyentist
How is taxing marijuana and making third parties pay for it, "self sufficient?"

If you are currently self sufficient that is great, but why would you deny that right to others? The fact is, this legislation in Colorado is making government grow in every direction.

You may think it's okay, because you are self sufficient, so screw other people, but that is going to boomerang. The states already don't want people to be self sufficient, with every expanding law enforcement, how long before the law enforcement and exponentially growing laws land on your doorstep?

29 posted on 06/10/2014 5:14:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I once considered moving to CO. Not anymore......


30 posted on 06/10/2014 5:21:28 PM PDT by ducttape45
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To: nickcarraway
Colorado state government is gradually becoming a drug cartel. If you think Mexican drug cartels are bad, wait until the government and big business are making big time money from it.

CA has been raking it in since they enacted medical pot in 1997. Last I saw it was $100M/yr. So where are all the murders associated with the trade?

We now have 22 states and DC with medical mj, yet crime is falling and highways are safer than ever.

31 posted on 06/10/2014 5:25:43 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Unfortunately or fortunately; however you choose to look at it, the tooth paste is out of the tube.


32 posted on 06/10/2014 5:26:23 PM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Do you support letting states decide intrastate mj regulation, as the 10th Amendment says?


33 posted on 06/10/2014 5:27:57 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: WMarshal

Don’t forget Maureen(I ain’t Catherine Zeta) Dowd...


34 posted on 06/10/2014 5:31:14 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: nickcarraway
>"How is taxing marijuana and making third parties pay for it, "self sufficient?" "

Why would anyone pay for something that is FREE? How can you tax sunshine dirt and rain?

How long before people figure out they can grow their own, and not be dependent on the govt for their drugs?

You sir are the one forcing dependence on people!

35 posted on 06/10/2014 5:33:58 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Can you blow tobacco cigar smoke into clouds like that legally in public? Or do you have to shelter yourself indoors at home to be able to partake of THAT legal substance?


36 posted on 06/10/2014 5:34:33 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: WMarshal

If the oil that was used in the candybar had been put into single serve pills instead, she would’ve been unlikely to take 16 doses at once.

Even then it took over an hour to take effect.

Don’t drugs come with instructions, precautions, and warnings?


37 posted on 06/10/2014 5:36:32 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Only partially repealed prohibition. The Feds mandate (through hijacking of federal highway funds) a 21+ year drinking age and a 0.08 (headed downward to 0.03) BAC for drivers.


38 posted on 06/10/2014 5:38:38 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: rawcatslyentist

Obama and Eric Holder have been caught illegally arming the narcoterrorists in Mexico. Legalizing pot is going to do nothing to prosecute them for that crime.

What are you doing about that except rah-rahing pot at every turn?

If you are truly concerned about us arming the other side in the WOD, what are you willing to do to prosecute the highest office holder in the land?

Write your congressman yet?

Write your local paper’s editor yet?

Create a twitter hash tag (pardon the pun)?


39 posted on 06/10/2014 5:42:27 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

6 months... $18m. projected yearly tax revenue from pot: $36m

total state tax revenue: $10bn

percentage of tax revenue coming from pot: 0.36%

yea... that was worth degrading the moral fabric of the state. all that lack of motivation should really help drive the economy

http://www.governing.com/gov-data/state-tax-revenue-data.html


40 posted on 06/10/2014 5:47:54 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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