Posted on 10/06/2014 2:56:53 PM PDT by Mariner
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper says his state's voters were "reckless" for voting to become the first state to legalize marijuana for recreational use. The Democrat's statement came during a debate Monday with his Republican opponent, Bob Beauprez, just four weeks before voters head to the polls for the state's hotly contested gubernatorial election.
In 2012, more than 55 percent of voters in Colorado supported Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana for recreational use. The amendment aimed to regulate marijuana in roughly the same way alcohol is regulated.
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What will the fallout be?
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The fallout is already occuring with higher taxes and bigger government. Yet to come will be increased unemployment, lower educational levels, higher levels of welfare and incarceration and so on.
Doubtful.. you have a democrat telling democrats they’re dumb. First truthful statement from a sitting democrat but I expect the 55% are to damn high and dumb to even notice.
Legalization of drugs, expansion of Casinos, legalization of homosexual “marriage”.
Next up-legalization of prostitution.
The country is going down the sewer.
Nobody signed a bill. It was a constitutional amendment enacted by referendum.
THAT was understood from the get-go. Even the stoner liberaltarian here at FR knew that with legal pot comes TAXES on that product and more and more levels of government to regulate, control and TAX the stuff.
They didn't care. Hypocrites.
they weren’t reckless, they were stoned.. good luck with all that.
The product is taxed like crazy but in general taxes are not going up because of pot. Gov meddling in capitalism is of concern. Most of the rest of the fallout you mention is not happening, at least not yet.
Blame on my Cali state transplants they are for it
Mark my words in 2016 we going legalize here in CALI
Wow! Common sense on the part of a third rate Dem governor? Better late than never.
He’s right that approving pot was an extremely stupid thing to do, but he should have taken up a position before the law was passed. Coward.
Not unless there is voter remorse.
Unless he’s stupid, he must be getting poll data that says people are having second thoughts.
Also 55% means nothing if voter turnout was low.
Yeah because pot is so evil. Bourbon is for heavenly. Those that can’t see the parallels of today’s prohibition and prohibition of the 1920 are in serious denial.
mygosh, how many of those marijuana advocates are liberal dems?
Aug 19, 2014
Colorado comes out on top in a Business Insider ranking of the nation's top economies.
The national business and technology news website said it evaluated each state on eight measures, including unemployment, the number of non-farm payroll jobs, gross domestic product, average wages, the working age (18-64) population, value of international exports, house prices and auto sales. ( Methodology details here.)
Colorado "was in the top 10 states on five of our metrics, and in the top 15 on the other three," Business Insider said.
http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/broadway_17th/2014/08/colorado-economy-rated-tops-in-nation.html
He signed it.
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He’s panicking. So is Udall.
I am very libertarian but realize a lot of hype about legalizing weed was simply none sense.
Do the dopers think that it will be legal for 12 or 15 year old kids? Do they really think the cost will go down when cigarettes are are what $5.00s a pack? Marijuana or cocaine are not going to be legal for the people the Cartels target as customers
The only way the Libertarian argument works when legalizing drugs is if you have no socialized medicine. In a really cold, calculated way it could be argued that letting the stoners kill themselves or end up as mumbling schizophrenics living under a bridge is justice. It certainly might become a better deterrent than health class in a secondary school.
Just my thoughts
I was watching a program on Nat Geo this weekend called drugged.
It followed various addicts around as they tried to beat their addictions.
Crack, heroin, meth, coke, weed and alcohol.
They were all very sad, but by far the most messed up person was the alcoholic.
This guys was a complete wreck. He had a lot of people around him who clearly, despite his raging addiction, loved him very much.
By the end of the show he had agreed to undergo 90 day treatment.
He died 17 days later while in rehab at the age of 28. He had poisoned his liver and pancreas to such and extent that it was too late to save him.
At 28.
That is the legal drug.
personally i have not seen or smelled anyone smoking but i guess i don't get out much; food store, liquor store, hobby store, gun range, and library.
while i would vote to overturn it (and chickenpoophead could have vetoed it but said "but was the will of the people" BS and having dumbass 18 year old non soldiers vote) this is not a fasll on my sword issue. i am much more concerned about privacy, gun laws, taxes, illegal immigrant criminals, real education reform and the economy. i'm a gfx artist so the more stoners who smoke themselves out of jobs, the better my chances (not quite satire on that comment)
......had a hundred acres near Pitkin for many years.
Sold it. Being honest, there were several factors. But, one of them was just “liberalism” generally. It was CLEARLY on the rise everywhere you went in Colorado.
Now we have the stoners flooding in. I was just in time!
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