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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Especially when most of them are your base. Something the GOP-e could learn too.
And the other 56 states didn't?
next I expect to see states with legal pot see an increase of pot users apply for social security disability.
Legalized drugs-Welfare state-Democrat voters
He signed bills based on that referendum that put pot into play. He could have just as easily said it is against federal law and let it die.
Ronald Reagan on the importance of political compromise(in his own words)
You're forgetting Eric Holder and DOJ are not on board with that plan. They have an official nonenforcement policy provided the use and sale is withing specific guidelines.
The legislature did the responsible thing to enact a regulatory regime. Otherwise, there would have been chaos and lawsuits out the wazoo trying figure out what is allowed and what isn't.
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But of the 55% that voted, how many were dead, bused in by Soros or the O’bama administration, drug addicted on marijuana, or special interest groups wanting to make a butt load of money?
So you think telling voters they did wrong by electing Barry is a bad thing too?
“They were all very sad, but by far the most messed up person was the alcoholic.”
Alcoholism certainly is brutal for all involved.
By no means does the following recount imply you share the same views, your statement just reminded me of somebody: There was a guy named Roland who used to live in these parts. He was tall, had long blond dreadlocks, was a good drummer, had some beautiful children whose mother’s booted him, and his occupation was being a marijuana dealer. One of the things he really liked to do was to preach about how bad alcohol was. He could go on and on and on about all the different drugs being so much better and safer than alcohol, even meth and heroin. He would preach such with gusto and zeal, much in the same way an animal rights activist vegetarian goes off on how meat is murder. This guy Roland would really get up in people’s faces about their drinking of any amount if they so much as even hinted that marijuana wasn’t such a good thing. The guy was relentless.
One day a friend mentioned to me in passing that Roland had died a few months prior. I asked how. My friend replied that a guy shot him in the face. I asked if he thought it was because Roland was doing his usual of ragging on alcohol and promoting marijuana. My friend replied that not only was that the case, but that Roland had entered the house of the guy he was ragging on and wouldn’t leave! The homeowner finally just couldn’t take it anymore and shot Roland in the face. Guess he shut him up. No charges were ever filed. Roland literally promoted marijuana to death! Perhaps he still would be alive if he had just moved to Colorado or Washington, but I suspect he still would’ve made his trips to the Mexican border.
~Ronald Reagan
Reagan said that. And he was WRONG.
At least in terms of today's Republican Party. As we now plainly see - they don't even give us 50%. Yet the Repub Sheeple accept that thinking it'll be better next time. We will hold our nose, vote for the GOP-e's and fight.
Not any more. Fight? Yes. But only for conservatives. Liberals with an (R) after their name can kiss .....
Right or wrong, would legalization prompt YOU to start toking? I don't know about you, but just because I can does not require that I must. (And, I don't.)
Ponder this: When was the last time you saw two stoners get into a bar fight?
Legal pot regulated by the state is laced with meth and coke? LOL
I've never even heard of that with illicit pot.
Apparently you’ve had one too many to follow the context you yourself set in the post I was replying to. LOL
I never have. That would run up the price beyond what the market would bear.
80 years ago they were saying basically the same thing....
Would you start toking DRINKING if it becomes legal? Neither will I.
Today, yes. Back before 1986 and the Len Bias coke/crack scare, coke was cheap.
I've had one too many. Says the one posting a triple run-on sentence.
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